Things to do in Chicago in the Summer

Summer is upon us here in Chicago 
(at least for a while, who knows how long the great weather will last), 

so with great weather comes all the great thing to do in Chicago for the next couple of months.

There is so much to do in Chicago, you can go eat at many of the food festivals, enjoy at concert, even enjoy at movie at the park.

So look over the list and hope to see you at a few of these places.

Please check out my other blog on all the Movies at the Park Here or the complete list Here.

Movies of 2011 (or look at all the popcorn I’ll be eating)

This year like every year, the movie industry is looking to accommodate the fanboys (& fangirls)

by giving us a great selection of movies that are either comic-related, comic-influence or simply fun movies to watch.

Last year we were giving a lot of “fanboys” movie that were hit or miss like Scott Pilgrim, Red, Jonah Hex, The Losers, Iron Man 2, etc

and also movies that were amazing to watch like Toy Story 3, Inception, Despicable me, etc.
This year looks to top last year with the amount of releases and I hope with quality.

Scott Pilgrim Vs The World Movie and Game Review

First of all this movie is amazing and i recommend that you and everyone you know go see it.

If you haven’t heard about Scott Pilgrim, then  I don’t know how you survived all these years so for the one or two of you who don’t know, Scott Pilgrim is a 23 yr old slacker who meets Ramona the girl of his dream (literally) and in order to date Ramona he most defeat her 7 evil exes.

My Huge Summer To Do List ( or why I will be tired come September)

This summer looks to be full of activities to do in my wonderful city of Chicago.

Several different activities are going around town from June till August from Movies in the Park to a Late night Bike Ride and HUGE Pillow Fight.

I will be trying to be at ALL these places this summer and I hope to see you there as well :-)

(I started this blog before I was Ribfest but didn't finish it till after but Ribfest was Amazing, I had so much fun there)

Fanboys' Summer preview (or what I'll be watching for the next 5 months)

This is the a little late but I'm still putting it out,
So Last week started the "unofficial" start of the Fanboy summer season with the release of Kick-Ass
(which BTW it's really good, if you haven't seen it stop reading this and go, you can always read this later).

There are 12 movies that are fanboy-related coming out this summer, some you may know and some you don't.
This movies are based from different mediums like from Comics, Video Games, Cartoons, etc.
These is the list of movies out this Summer
(can't wait to see the all)

Chicago Outdoor Film Festival (or How I will spend my tuesdays)

One of the best things about this wonderful city that I live in is all the wonderful things you can do in the Summer
like Taste of Chicago and The Air & Water Show
but my favorite thing to do in the summer is The Chicago Outdoor Film Festival .

Every Tuesday after sunset from July 14 to August 25
(There are no rain dates or make-up dates.),
they will showing free movies on a 50-foot by 34-foot screen in downtown Grant Park at 100 S. Lake Shore Drive. (It's south of Millennium Park, and north of the Art Institute).

The list of Movies and show times are as follows;

Grant Park Movies - 2009 Schedule:

July 14, 2009 @ 8:58 pm: Sunset Boulevard (1950)

July 21, 2009 @ 8:52 pm: Duck Soup (1933)

July 28, 2009 @ 8:45 pm: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1950)

August 4, 2009 @ 8:37 pm: Born Yesterday (1950)

August 11, 2009 @ 8:27 pm: Psycho (1960)

August 18, 2009 @ 8:17 pm: Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

August 25, 2009 @ 8:05 pm: Tootsie (1982)

Hope to see you there watching a movie under the stars

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Scott Pilgrim Casting

Back on July 2008 on this blog I wrote a review/recommendation for Scott Pilgrim vol.1 - Scott Pilgrim vs the world and to me it is still one of my favorite graphic novel of 2008, if not of all time.

For those who never read or it's been a while since you did, here's a recap -
Scott pilgrim is a 23 yrs old slacker that meets the girl of his dreams (literally) and finds out that in order to date her he has to battle her 7 evil exes.

Now director Edgar wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) is bringing this book to a big screen and he is bringing a huge cast of young Hollywood talent.
I'm so excited for the movie that I decided to post the cast listing, just to show what an awesome movie this will be.
The cast is as follows;


Michael Cera - Scott Pilgrim




Mary Elizabeth Winstead - Ramona flowers




Chris Evans - Lucas Lee (Second Evil Ex)




Brandon Routh - Todd Ingram (Third Evil Ex)




Ellen Wong - Knives Chau




Mark Webber - Stephen Stills




Alison Pill - Kim Pine




Anna Kendrick -Stacey Pilgrim



Johnny Simmons - Young Neil




Brie Larson - Envy Adams




Kieran Culkin - Wallace Wells



And Many More. . .

The movie is currently being filmed & doesn't have a release date, we are also awaiting the release of the 6th and final volume of Scott Pilgrim.
I'm so excited for this movie.

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Summer Movies are Here!!!

With Iron Man releasing today (May 02), it is the first movie to kickoff the Summer Blockbuster Movie Season.
There a lot of movies coming out this summer and this just the list is the ones that my friends and I are really looking forward to...

hope you are excited about these movies as I am.



For the Month of May.

MAY 02, 2009

IRON MAN





MAY 09, 2008

SPEED RACER





MAY 16, 2008

CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: PRINCE CASPIAN





MAY 22,2008

NDIANA JONES AND THE KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL





For the month of June:

JUNE 06,2008

YOU DON'T MESS WITH ZOHAN





JUNE 13

INCREDIBLE HULK & M. NIGHT SHYAMALAN'S THE HAPPENING




JUNE 27, 2008


WALL-E & WANTED




For the month of July:

JULY 02, 2008

HANCOCK



JULY 11, 2008

HELLBOY II: THE GOLDEN ARMY





JULY 18, 2008

THE DARK KNIGHT





JULY 25, 2008

X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE (X-FILES 2)



and many more....

I can't wait for these movies especially The Dark Knight and The Incredible Hulk and Hellboy 2,

what are you looking forward to???

King of Kong: the best video game movie of all time???

This past week me and my brother tony watched the documentary King of Kong: A Fistful Of Quarters, and after watching it got me thinking Could this be the greatest video game movie of all time???

The movie premiered at Slamdance in January of 2007 and came out on DVD on January 28, 2008.



For those who don't know what the movie is about, King of Kong is a documentary about the game of Donkey Kong, but more importantly it is a about a guy who decides to go for the world record and the obstacles he had to face in the process.

Steve Weibe was an unemployed father who while going to college to study to be a teacher decide to play donkey kong in his spare time and after achiving a million points, decide to try For the world record and that is were movie gets interresting.


I have watched many documentaries, some with topics that i cared about and some that i didn't, but the great thing about this movie is that it gets you interested in the story of Steve Wiebe and has you hooked until the very end.

Does he get the World Record?

What does the current Champion who is Billy Mitchell who also hold records for Pac-man and many other games does about this?

and many more question will come to you as you watch this movie, if you are a Gamer or not, i recommend everyone to watch this documentary and tell me what you think...