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Film News: Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema Announces Season 12 Films
CHICAGO– The resilient Asian Pop-Up Cinema (APUC) series of Chicago will begin Season 12 on March 15th, 2021, and will offer a unique three-part hybrid presentation culminating on May 1st. It opens...
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Via Zoom: Director Logan Stone's Journey to His New Film ‘Exodus’
CHICAGO– The filmmaker’s journey to premiere is different for all, but no one has seemed to symbolize it better than Logan Stone, the director and co-writer of the new release “Exodus.” The film will...
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Film News: Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema Opens with ‘The Town of Headcounts,’...
CHICAGO– The Asian Pop-Up Cinema (APUC) series of Chicago opens their Season 12 on March 15th, 2021, through their virtual/online platform, with the Japanese film “The Town of Headcounts.” You can...
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Film News: Chicago’s Asian Pop-Up Cinema Goes to the Drive-In Beginning April...
CHICAGO– Season 12 continues for the Asian Pop-Up Cinema (APUC) series of Chicago with a series of 11 films at the Lincoln Yards Drive-In from April 15th through May 2nd, 2021. For a complete schedule...
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Oscar Week 2021: Spotlight on Best Actor Nominee Chadwick Boseman
CHICAGO– In one of the crueler events during the cruel year of 2020, the actor Chadwick Boseman died from cancer at age 43. But he left us two prominent roles in 2020, as a pivotal character in Spike...
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Oscar Week 2021: Spotlight on Best Actress Nominee Viola Davis
CHICAGO– Building a career role by role, Viola Davis has emerged at the top of her profession as an actress, with four Oscar nominations in her journey – and one win for “Fences” (2016) – including...
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Oscar Week 2021: Spotlight on Best Actress Nominee Carey Mulligan
CHICAGO– Making an impact has pretty much defined the career of Carey Mulligan. Her film characters have had a depth and energy to them that only she can deliver. 11 years after her first Best Actress...
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Oscar 2021: Top Category Predictions for 93rd Academy Awards
CHICAGO– Predicting the Oscars is like going on a blind date. You really don’t know what’s going to happen, and often you’re humiliated to boot. But here goes Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com,...
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Oscar 2021: Spotlight on Best Actor Nominee Gary Oldman for 'Mank'
CHICAGO– The great Gary Oldman is a veteran actor who has created so many memorable roles that he’s his own Hall of Fame. His surprising turn as Herman Mankiewicz, the co-screenwriter with Orson Welles...
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Via Zoom: Sophia Wong Boccio of Asian Pop-Up Cinema on Closing Night Film,...
CHICAGO– Within the successful Season 12 for the Asian Pop-Up Cinema (APUC) series of Chicago – the Closing Night film is Hong Kong’s “Ready O/r Knot” at the Davis Theater (relocated from the Lincoln...
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Film News: Oscar Winner & Stage Actor Olympia Dukakis Dies at 89
CHICAGO– I will never forget meeting Olympia Dukakis. It was in Chicago in 2009, and among all the pomp and sequins of a Greek American awards night. it was Dukakis who was, by her natural presence,...
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Via Zoom: Jer Sklar on His First Feature Film ‘Tom of Your Life’
CHICAGO– Jer Sklar has created a one-of-a-kind feature film debut – “Tom of His Life” – the story of a boy who ages four years every hour, living his entire life in one day. The film has a week-long...
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Via Zoom: David Dastmalchian on Count Crowley & Mid May Massacre
CHICAGO– David Dastmalchian is always looking up … both at his soaring career and how he can spread his particular brand of positive vibes. The actor will appear in two huge 2021 films, “The Suicide...
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Interview: Rockers ENDO Debut is ‘Anhedonia’ on May 14. 2021
LASVEGAS– Endo, the up-and-coming powerhouse band from Sin City, recently announced their debut album, “Anhedonia,” which will release on Friday, May 14th, 2021. It’s two-person rock, with John Badwolf...
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Via Zoom: Ron Falzone on ‘Coriander and a Penny’s Worth of Lonesome’
CHICAGO– In this new golden age of animation, the ability to create mood and setting is more accessible than ever. For creator and writer Ron Falzone (with director Julian Grant), a notable death in...
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Via Zoom: Filmmaker Jack C. Newell on His New Film ‘Monuments’
CHICAGO– The evolution of the “local filmmaker” always seems to be defined through where that person is. Jack C. Newell appears to not be measured by time and place, but as a filmmaker of artistic...
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Via Zoom: CJ Hunt on His New Documentary ‘The Neutral Ground’
CHICAGO– When you are not black in America, you cannot imagine the societal indignities (to say the least) that are endured on a daily basis, both macro and micro. A new documentary on a particular...
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Podtalk: That’s a Wrap! Filmmaker Michael Glover Smith on ‘Relative'
CHICAGO– Local filmmaker Michael Glover Smith broke through the after-the-pandemic ceiling with his recently completed fourth feature film, “Relative.” The ten day production, shot primarily in...
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Via Zoom: Anthony Michael Hall of ’The Class’ is Unforgettable
CHICAGO– The theme song for “The Breakfast Club” is “Don’t You Forget About Me,” and there is no way to forget iconic actor Anthony Michael Hall. After a blazing number of 1980s classics as a teenager,...
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Via Zoom: Kristine Stolakis on Her New Film ‘Pray Away’
CHICAGO– One of the crueler uses of psychology or religion is as a “cure” for gay or transgender or even fluid orientations to “become” heterosexual. Although this conversion therapy should never...
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