CHICAGO – Excelsior! Comic book legend Stan Lee’s famous exclamation puts a fine point on the third and final play of Mark Pracht’s FOUR COLOR TRILOGY, “The House of Ideas,” presented by and staged at City Lit Theater in Chicago’s Edgewater neighborhood. For tickets/details, click HOUSE OF IDEAS.
Noah Baumbach
‘Mistress America’ Ultimately Wears Out Her Welcome
Submitted by PatrickMcD on August 21, 2015 - 6:02pm Rating: 3.0/5.0 |
CHICAGO – Mistress America is a movie that works best in small doses. The film is chock full of special moments, lines, and fragments of scenes, but it never really comes together as a cohesive film. I could see it easily taking on a second life once it hits streaming and YouTube.
An Age Range of Human Conditions in ‘While We’re Young’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 3, 2015 - 8:21pm Rating: 4.5/5.0 |
CHICAGO – We’re born, we’re nurtured, we seek purpose and we die. In between there are a million decisions between the words of that opening sentence, and writer/director Noah Baumbach understands that intuitively in his great new film, “While We’re Young.”
