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Interview: Actor David Oyelowo Presides Over ‘A United Kingdom’
CHICAGO– Actor David Oyelowo is very familiar with portraying a man of consequence put into a difficult leadership role. In 2014, he took on the role of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in “Selma.”...
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Interview: Benjamin May on ‘The Legend of Swee’ Pea’ at the Midwest...
CHICAGO– The road to athletic success is littered with the clichés of “might have been” and “never was,” but rarely does it contain a success story that is despite the person who achieved that success....
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Film News: TCM Host & Film Historian Robert Osborne Dies at 84
NEWYORKCITY– Robert Osborne, one of the great film advocates and historians of our era, who hosted on Turner Classic Movies (TCM) with passionate skill from 1994 until recently, has passed away on...
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Interview: Actor André Holland is Rising in ‘Moonlight’
CHICAGO– While the name André Holland may not be familiar, the actor’s consummate approach to his craft is unforgettable. Specializing in character parts, Holland has raised his profile in such movie...
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Interview: Producer George Avraam on ‘Beloved Days’ at Chicago European Union...
CHICAGO– How can the innocence of an entire nation be looked upon with nostalgia and tribute? When in 1970, a small village on the island country of Cyprus was the setting for a film company and a...
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Podcast Interview: John Michael Conjures Up ‘Meatball Seance’
CHICAGO– When interviewing the Chicago monologist John Michael, it’s best to hear it straight from the source. HollywoodChicago.com presents a podcast interview with John Michael, whose current one-man...
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Interviews: 53rd Chicago International Television Awards on Mar. 23, 2017
CHICAGO–The 53rd Chicago International Television Awards, a companion celebration to the Chicago International Television Festival – and presented by Cinema/Chicago, the organization who presents the...
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Interviews: Women in Film Chicago 2017 Focus Award Recipients
CHICAGO– Women in Film Chicago (WIFC) continues its role as one of the best resource and advocacy groups for women filmmakers. Last month, they celebrated their Focus Awards and honored four women –...
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Interview: Director Danny Boyle Goes Back to ‘T2 Trainspotting’
CHICAGO– Rarely does a filmmaker have a long or influential enough career to revisit a story and characters that they’ve explored in a previous film. Oscar winner Danny Boyle has both qualifications,...
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Interview: Director Hunter Adams on Release of ‘Dig Two Graves’
CHICAGO– One of the local filmmaker heroes has been Hunter Adams, the director of “Dig Two Graves.” Shot in Southern Illinois in the infamous “Little Egypt” area, Adams took a shoestring budget and...
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Interview: Director FU Tien Yu of ‘My Egg Boy’ at Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up...
CHICAGO– The biological clock ticks for all women, and this life event is magnanimously given a wildly creative treatment in the new film “My Egg Boy.” This story from Taiwan is part of the fourth...
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Interview: Director Tom McGrath is Boss of ‘The Boss Baby’
CHICAGO– In one of the most natural pieces of voice casting in cartoon history, Alec Baldwin portrays the title character in Dreamworks Animation’s “The Boss Baby.” The director is animation veteran...
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Interviews: Red-Carpet Premiere of Made-in-Chicago Film ‘Landline’
CHICAGO– Local Chicago filmmaking got a major debut last weekend with the premiere of “Landline,” written, directed and starring Matthew Aaron. Appropriately, he got the World Champion Chicago Cubs...
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Interview: Co-Director Erica Weiss on ‘The View From Tall,’ at Midwest...
CHICAGO– The actualities that define adolescence are always prime for new territory in drama, and that is what the Chicago-based film “The View from Tall” accomplishes. Co-directed by Erica Weiss and...
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Interview: Chicago’s Brown Paper Box Co. on Their ‘Positively Present’...
CHICAGO– When faced with adversity, the best way around it is to somehow break into song. That is the feeling behind the Brown Paper Box Co.’s “Positively Present: An Uplifting Cabaret,” running April...
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Interviews: Honorees of Awards Night at the Chicago International Television...
CHICAGO– It was an evening to honor the past, current and future brands in TV media at the 53rd Chicago International Television Awards Night on Thursday, March 23rd, 2017. TV advertising creator Joe...
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Red-Carpet Video Interview: Chicago’s Lee & Leslie Strobel of ‘The Case for...
CHICAGO– HollywoodChicago.com publisher Adam Fendelman interviews Lee and Leslie Strobel at the star-studded red-carpet premiere of the new film “The Case for Christ” at Chicago’s AMC River East on...
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Podcast Interview: Anna & Hannah Ii-Epstein of Nothing Without a Company’s...
CHICAGO– Proving that creating vibrant theater is a methodical step-by-step process, Anna and Hannah Ii-Epstein – of Nothing Without a Company theater troupe – have taken a ten-plus year journey to...
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Red-Carpet Video Interview: ‘Swimfan’ Star Erika Christensen of ‘The Case for...
CHICAGO– HollywoodChicago.com publisher Adam Fendelman interviews Erika Christensen at the star-studded red-carpet premiere of the new film “The Case for Christ” at Chicago’s AMC River East on April 6,...
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Interview: Jack Lowden & Ophelia Lovibond of ‘Tommy’s Honour’
CHICAGO– Combining the history of golf with a heartbreaking romance seems like a contradiction, but the new film “Tommy’s Honour” does it fluidly, in part because of the two young actors portraying the...
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