Hamlet 2 is a strange film. It’s not for everyone and probably will not play well to older and/or more conservative audience. The conservative ones it sends up. The older ones won’t get parts of the humor.
Figure the co-writers on this are Pam Brady whose writing credits include South Park and Team America, and Andrew Fleming whose very […]

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The so-called “modern” apartment building has all manners of perks our parents never saw, and with those perks can come a real freak show. If you live in a building with a gym on-site, odds are the gym rules are a little more lax than the local health club and there’s a whole new cast of […]

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The X-Files: I Want to Believe really is just a film length episode of the TV series. In fact, its so low key an episode, I’m stunned this is the story they decided to use for a feature film.
You can divide X-Files episodes into two kinds of stories: aliens and monsters. The monster stories can further be […]

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It’s official. The economy is in the tank. I’ve now seen a sign that mean no other thing.

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Leave it to the Bulls to have a bizarre and contentious off-season. GM Paxson decides he wants to deal with his two prize restricted free agents, Luol Deng and Ben Gordon, before doing anything else. That’s fine and even prudent, but while one hears about free agent courting in other NBA cities, in Chicago all one hears […]

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If you live in the city, you’re familiar with beggars. Living in the city, I see my fair share of them, but as the summer wears on, the legal beggars are wearing me down.
No, I’m not talking about the Streetwise vendors (Streetwise being Chicago version of the newspaper homeless people sell), I’m talking about the political […]

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The Dark Knight lives up to the hype, and that’s a lot of hype for a show that had cordoned lines at 2:30 in the afternoon on a Friday.
Continuing where the previous film in the current series, Batman Begins, left off, Dark Knight finds the Batman continuing to put the squeeze on the Falcone crime […]

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The Denver Nuggets were so inspired by the Memphis Grizzlies dumping Pao Gasol for salary relief, they decided to one up them and trade Marcus Camby not for a second round draft pick, but the right to swap second round picks in 2010. If they opt not to swap, the Clippers will have gotten Camby for […]

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Continuing the conversation from my Funnies Business column in Publisher’s Weekly Comics Week, newsstand sales and subscriptions are two categories that, while mainstays of “normal” magazine publishing, have gone by the wayside as comics have entered the direct market.  Looking at the circulation audits from the BPA, we can track newsstand and subscription sales, for […]

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If the paying audience is anything like the crowd that showed up for the Hellboy 2: The Golden Army preview I caught, Universal/Dark Horse have a hit on their hands. Warned I should show up a little earlier than normal, I turned up about an hour before the screening and barely got in. Worse, I was stuck […]

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