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: Past in Present Tense for ‘May December’
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on November 30th, 2023, reviewing “May December,” featuring Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman, directed by Todd Haynes. Streaming on Netflix beginning on December 1st, 2023.
Rating: 4.5/5.0 |
Gracie (Julianne Moore), ia a Savannah baker with three children who lives with her husband or 24 years, Joe (Charles Melton). A movie is about to be made about their lives … the couple met when Joe was 13 years old and Gracie was 36, and began an affair that exploded in the tabloids, and resulted in the birth of their first child. The actor Elizabeth (Natalie Portman) will be portraying Gracie in the film and is in town to do research, opening up the old wounds regarding the event. Everyone will again be affected by the past.
May December
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