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Paul Rudd, Jennifer Aniston Take Funny Trip to Hippie Nirvana in ‘Wanderlust’
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– David Wain’s “Wanderlust” is a deeply flawed movie. The female lead is woefully underwritten and the script pretty much falls apart at the end as characters do things they...
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Horrible ‘We’re the Millers’ Wastes Huge Potential
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– There was a point in “We’re the Millers” when the story fell off the table like a Slinky from a mountaintop. It’s as if other writers took over from a far superior dark comedy,...
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Kathryn Hahn Stars in Near-Miss ‘Afternoon Delight’
Rating: 3.0/5.0CHICAGO– Jill Soloway’s Sundance Award-winning “Afternoon Delight” is such a frustrating near-miss. There will be some slight spoilers in this review. Because I can’t figure out how to...
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Frustrating Journey Into ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’
Rating: 2.5/5.0I so want to love Ben Stiller’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty.” Stiller’s directorial work on films like “The Cable Guy” and “Tropic Thunder” was underrated, the source material is...
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Cussing Doesn’t Spell Out Comedy in ‘Bad Words’
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– In his directorial debut “Bad Words”, Jason Bateman plays Guy Trilby, a foulmouthed 40 year old man who aggressively competes in local youth spelling bees. The children are...
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Unoriginal, Unfunny ‘This is Where I Leave You’ a Poor Man’s ‘August: Osage...
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– Jason Bateman and an all-star cast got me there. The unfunny copycat story left me regretting it. If you don’t start with a solid plot that’s at least somewhat new, it doesn’t...
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Awe Factor is Sorely Lacking in ‘Tomorrowland’
Rating: 2.0/5.0CHICAGO– For a movie all about the awesome power of inspiration, innovation and wonder, “Tomorrowland” has precious little of its own. “Tomorrowland” the title promises a kind of retro...
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M. Night Shyamalan Offers Chills, Laughs in ‘The Visit’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– Director and auteur M. Night Shyamalan has been very spotty in the last nine years. “The Sixth Sense” filmmaker has had less of an impact with “After Earth” and “The Last...
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Strong Cast Makes ‘Bad Moms’ Good for Some Laughs
Rating: 3.5/5.0CHICAGO– “Bad Moms” is another raunchy women behaving badly comedy that never met a curse word it didn’t like. But I’ll say this for ‘Bad Moms,’ it’s rebellion comes from a relatable...
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No Flipping! On-Air Review of ‘WandaVision’
Rating: 4.0/5.0CHICAGO– Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on The Eddie Volkman Show on WSSR-FM (Star 96.7 Joliet, Illinois) on January 15th, 2021, reviewing the new series from Disney+...
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