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: Benefit for Bennifer in ‘The Tender Bar’
CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Scott Thompson on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on January 6th, 2022, reviewing the latest from Ben Affleck, directed by George Clooney. “The Tender Bar” is streaming on Amazon Prime Video starting January 7th.
Rating: 3.0/5.0 |
Ben Affleck portrays Uncle Charlie, a Long Island bartender in the 1970s who fancies himself a philosopher king. Tye Sheridan is J.R.(the source of the memoir that is based on the film), who rhapsodizes about his life as a kid hanging at the bar and later as a young college student, still thinking Affleck’s Uncle Charlie is the coolest cat.
The Tender Bar
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