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.
On-Air Film Review: ‘Elemental’ is the Star-Crossed Stuff of Life
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on June 15th, reviewing “Elemental,” the latest animated film from Pixar Animation and Walt Disney Studios. In theaters on June 16th.!—break—>
Rating: 3.0/5.0 |
In a city where the elements of fire, water, earth, and air in the form of clouds live together, a fire woman named Ember (voice of Leah Lewis) and a water guy named Wade (Mamoudou Athie) meet cute when the shop of Ember’s father Bernie (Ronnie del Carmen), which is being inspected by Wade and his boss, city bureaucrat Gale Cumulus (Wendi McLendon-Covey). The potential couple are about to discover something elemental … how much they actually have in common.
Elemental
Photo credit: Pixar Animation/Walt Disney Pictures