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.
Film Review: Mellow Fellow Owen Wilson Channels Bob Ross in ‘Paint’
CHICAGO – The newly released “Paint” film offers an amiable enough premise that’s amusing in a two minute trailer, but entirely out of gas 20 minutes into the story, and then plods around for a whole other hour. While it’s hard to hate it, but I don’t think my time was very well spent either. !—break—>
Rating: 2.0/5.0 |
Owen Wilson stars as Carl Nargle, the host of a popular daytime painting show on PBS station in Vermont. He’s the tiny station’s biggest star, and acts like an entitled 1970’s rock star … back when mellow hairy dudes were cool variety, only now with a staff of now middle aged groupies. Chief among them is the Nargle’s former flame, Katherine (Michaela Watkins.) She effectively runs the station, and has watched the permed painter take thousands of viewers to his “special little place,” while still nursing some old breakup wounds.
Paint
Photo credit: IFC Films