CHICAGO – Cooper Ramsey is quickly becoming one of the most exciting young voices in country music. At just 16 years old, she ...

CHICAGO – The Autumnal Film Festivals are in full swing, and filmmakers across the spectrum are screening their cinema works to audiences around the country. Beginning a tour of festivals with ...

CHICAGO – Loretta Swit was a notable presence on America’s TV screens from 1972 to 1983, in her role as Major Margaret Houlihan on M*A*S*H. The final episode of that show still holds the record for ...

CHICAGO – Every seasoned movie lover can attest to having a favorite shot in Michael Curtiz’s 1942 classic “Casablanca,” a picture practically overflowing with indelible imagery.

In PART ONE of a Podtalk (from initial film release in 2021) with Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com, writer/director ...

CHICAGO – Alan Rudolph is a filmmaker icon from the last twenty years of the 20th Century and beyond. He had an unprecedented string of critical darlings from the 1970s through the ‘90s, a run that is ...

Breakfast of Champions’ (1999) tells the story of car dealership titan Dwayne Hoover (Bruce Willis), the most respected man in Midland City. His smiling face appears on every local channel and ...

CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Josh Westcott for WBGR - FM (Monroe, ...

Neeson portrays as an aging Marlowe, working on a case in 1939 Los Angeles assigned by wealthy Clare Cavendish (Diane Kruger), looking for her lover named Nico, who is presumed dead but Clare ...

Ben Scrooge (David Pevsner) – he doesn’t like his given name Ebenezer – is a club owner in Chicago who keeps his staff under his ruthless thumb, including his assistant Bob Cratchit (David ...

I was privileged to interview Wilson in 2015, in association with his biopic “Love & Mercy,” which featured John Cusack as an older Brian Wilson and Paul Dano as the younger Beach Boy Wilson (reprint ...

CHICAGO – The 12th Physical Theater Festival is about to kick off in Chicago. The focus this year will be a ‘Spotlight on Midwest Talent” – focusing on the development of programming in ...