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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: Zac Efron the Weak Link in Wrestling Drama ‘The Iron Claw’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on December 22, 2023 - 4:56pm
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”The Iron Claw” is in theaters December 22nd. Featuring Zac Efron, Jeremy Allen White, Harris Dickinson, Stanley Simons, Holt MacCallany, Laura Tierney, and Lily James. Screenplay by Sean Durkin. Directed by Sean Durkin. Rated “R”
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “The Iron Claw”
The Iron Claw
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Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “The Iron Claw”
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CHICAGO – An epic piece of miscasting puts “The Iron Claw” in a sleeper hold it’s never quite able to escape from … the pint sized gaping empty hole at its center has a name, and it is Zac Efron. Efron mistakenly believes that his admittedly drastic physical transformation will do his acting for him. But instead of looking tough, he instead looks distractingly cartoonish, like a He-Man doll come to life.
 Rating: 2.0/5.0 |
Portraying the 1970s/80s pro wrestling Von Erich brothers are Efron, Jeremy Allen White (of “The Bear”), Harris Dickinson, and Stanley Simons. Their father Fritz (Holt MacCallany) was a 1950s/60s pro wrestler who never got his own shot at the title, and pushes and pushes his sons to get into the squared circle and bring a title belt home. They compete against each other for their father’s attention and his approval knowing that one slip up can send them plummeting in the family pecking order.
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “The Iron Claw”The Iron Claw
Photo credit: A24
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “The Iron Claw”
