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    Feb 14, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Music Box festival celebrates 70mm projection

    It's how a lot of us got hooked on movies in the first place. When I was 8 or 9 I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm in Milwaukee with my mother. My memory's fuzzy on the particulars but I recall asking so many questions about the obelisk on the drive back to Racine, she had to pull over and compose herself for a minute and, as the tears streamed down her cheeks, she said quietly: "Michael, I just ... have no idea." It didn't matter. I'd never seen anything like it, and the Star Child never looked bigger, or scarier, or better.
    It's how a lot of us got hooked on movies in the first place. When I was 8 or 9 I saw "2001: A Space Odyssey" in 70 mm in Milwaukee with my mother. My memory's fuzzy on the particulars but I recall asking so many questions about the obelisk on the drive...

    Tags: 2001: A Space Odyssey (movie), Paul Thomas Anderson, The Master (movie), Stanley Kubrick, Festive Events

    2. Nov 22, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. 'My Week With Marilyn': Dim light on 2 major stars -- 2 1/2 stars

    In 1956, not long after she married "Death of a Salesman" playwright Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe made a movie with director and star Laurence Olivier at England's Pinewood Studios. The film, "The Prince and the Showgirl," came from Terence Rattigan's drawing-room comedy "The Sleeping Prince," which Olivier had performed on the London stage opposite his wife, Vivien Leigh.
    In 1956, not long after she married "Death of a Salesman" playwright Arthur Miller, Marilyn Monroe made a movie with director and star Laurence Olivier at England's Pinewood Studios. The film, "The Prince and the Showgirl," came from Terence Rattigan's...

    Tags: Dominic Cooper, Theater, Simon Curtis, Eddie Redmayne, London Theatre

    3. Sep 14, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. 'The Master' offers a cinematic world unlike any other

    Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be described easily enough.
    Already open in New York and Los Angeles and going into general release Friday, writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson's strange, audacious drama "The Master" evokes a feverish state of mind more than a conventional movie, though its story can be...

    Tags: Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia (movie), Bridesmaids (movie), Drama (genre), The Master (movie)

    4. Sep 17, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. A spare, articulate take on 'Hamlet'

    THEATER REVIEW: "Hamlet" at Writers' Theatre in Glencoe ★★★ ... An audience member walking into "Hamlet" today comes with so many preconceptions, it's hard for him or her to separate previous conceits from the darn play.
    Peter Brook once said that, in essence, everything in regard to "Hamlet" has been done before. The Moody Dane has been young and impetuous, or middle-aged and worn out. Every Oedipal twist in the tale has been tweaked and skewered. Every concept —...

    Tags: Laurence Olivier, Mel Gibson, Peter Brook, Human Interest

    5. Jul 27, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  5. Opening ceremony jolly good show

    LONDON — In one of thousands of pubs across London, where surely tears mixed with laughter Friday night, they might say I was gobsmacked by the Olympic opening ceremony.
    LONDON — In one of thousands of pubs across London, where surely tears mixed with laughter Friday night, they might say I was gobsmacked by the Olympic opening ceremony. In a more proper English teahouse, they might say I quite fancied that. All...

    Tags: Devin Hester, Paul McCartney, Chicago White Sox, Stanley Cup Playoffs, Olympic Flame Lighting Ceremony

    6. Apr 30, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  6. The gang's all here in 'The Avengers' ✭✭✭

    The culmination of everything ever written, produced or imagined in the known universe, or something like that,"The Avengers"bunches together Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, the leather-clad assassin Black Widow, the lethal archer Hawkeye and the superheroes’ one-eyed wrangler, Nick Fury, for 143 minutes of stylish mayhem in the service of defeating Thor’s malevolent brother, the god Loki, who hails from the interstellar world known as Asgard (access through wormhole only), and who yearns to conquer Earth with an all-powerful blue energy cube called the Tesseract.
    The culmination of everything ever written, produced or imagined in the known universe, or something like that,"The Avengers"bunches together Iron Man, Captain America, The Hulk, Thor, the leather-clad assassin Black Widow, the lethal archer Hawkeye and...

    Tags: The Hunger Games (movie), Clark Gregg, Edward Norton, Chris Hemsworth, Eric Bana

    7. Jan 24, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  7. Oscar nominations a blast from the past

    John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger," later filmed in 1959. By contrast there’s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year’s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in early 2012 is more like "Look Back with Bittersweet Nostalgia at the Industry’s Salad Days."
    John Osborne wrote the key post-World War II British drama "Look Back in Anger," later filmed in 1959. By contrast there’s very little anger in all the look-backs among this year’s Academy Award nominations. Oscar's unofficial slogan in...

    Tags: Artists, The Help (movie), Meryl Streep, Academy Awards, Rooney Mara

    8. Jan 3, 2008 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  8. Ready for their close-ups?

    This can't be a joke because there's a writers strike on and jokes are out for the duration. So in all unscripted seriousness, I ask, could Hollywood really be smarter than Washington? Is it possible that movie people are savvier than political people?...

    Tags: Primaries, Charlie Wilson, Academy Awards, Government, Iowa

    9. Jun 11, 2011 |Column| Los Angeles Times

  9. Patt Morrison Asks: Comics genius Stan Lee

    My comic book tastes ran to Classics Illustrated. Seriously, what's scarier than the graphic images of "Crime and Punishment" and Raskolnikov -- the existential "superman," not the caped one -- whacking the pawnbroker with an ax? Can I, then, hold my own with Spider-Man's spiritual father, Stan Lee, a genius of comics for 70 years? The progenitor of scores of graphic heroes and villains, "starred" on the Hollywood Walk of Fame this year, he's huge at the summer box office, with "Thor," then "X-Men: First Class" and, due out in July, "Captain America: The First Avenger." Twentysomethings may be kings of entertainment, but Lee is the emperor. He's chairman emeritus of Marvel, the venerable comics company that's grown multimedia and merchandising wings; he works with Disney through his POW (Purveyors of Wonder) Entertainment company. He's crafting a Chinese feature-film superhero, and he searches for real people with superhero powers on the History Channel. Biff! Bam! Boom! "I don't want anyone to think I'm retired," Lee says.
    My comic book tastes ran to Classics Illustrated. Seriously, what's scarier than the graphic images of "Crime and Punishment" and Raskolnikov -- the existential "superman," not the caped one -- whacking the pawnbroker with an ax? Can I, then, hold my...

    Tags: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sam Raimi, Gaming, Television, Batman (fictional character)

    10. Apr 2, 2012 | RedEye

  10. ‘My Week With Marilyn’: Jen Lindley forever

    Lakeview
    I always preferred Jen to Joey. “Hmm,” I observed as I watched “Dawson's Creek” like the angsty 90′s teen I was. “The blonde girl's way more interesting a character than the brunette who's always scowling and whining.&#...
    11. May 8, 2013 | Los Angeles Times

  11. ‘Game of Thrones’ star Richard Madden to play ‘Cinderella’ prince

    Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles Times
    Let's hope that Richard Madden has an easier time wearing a crown in “Cinderella” than he does in “Game of […]...
    12. Nov 20, 2011 | Orlando Sentinel

  12. Movie Review: My Week With Marilyn

    Frankly My Dear - Orlando Sentinel
    Michelle Williams doesn't so much impersonate Marilyn Monroe as suggest her in the entertaining new bio-drama “My Week With Marilyn.” She doesn't have Monroe's overripe figure, Kewpie doll cheeks or ‘C'mere and kiss me' lips. There's va-...
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