The feeling of lonely causes a disturbance in the mental psyche and begins to paralyze one’s ability to navigate in the outside world and even understand one’s self. But what’s unknown at times is that cause of lonely – that inner-voice trapping you and keeping you in touch with your past – a past [...]

  The Dark Knight Rises Starring: Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, Gary Oldman, Marion Cotillard, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Michael Caine, Morgan Freeman (***½)   The best thing about Christopher Nolan’s Batman films is that for comic book films they aren’t very comic-bookish, which is why they work so well and exude an appeal that transcends [...]

  Ted Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane Joel McHale, Giovanni Ribisi (****) Anyone who’s familiar with the animated sit-coms, Family Guy and American Dad will be pretty well aware of creator and guiding creative light Seth MacFarlane’s weird, truly twisted sense of humor. Deeply rooted in pop culture minutia, dirty jokes and outrageous [...]

Identity and truth hold court and spar with the souls of individuals in the reality brewing production of Immediate Family, written by Chicagoan Paul Oakley Stovall with direction from two-time Emmy Award nominee and Tony Award winner, Phylicia Rashad. Staged in Chicago’s historic Hyde Park community, through comedy and loads of dramatic, the Bryant family, [...]