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CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on March 21st, 2024, reviewing the new streaming series “Manhunt” – based on the bestseller by James L. Swanson – currently streaming on Apple TV+.
Film Review: Mellow Fellow Owen Wilson Channels Bob Ross in ‘Paint’
Submitted by PatrickMcD on April 6, 2023 - 11:04pm
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“Paint” opens in theaters on April 7th. Featuring Owen Wilson, Michaela Watkins, Clara Renée, Wendi McClendon-Covey and Stephen Root. Written and directed by Brit McAdams. Rated “PG-13”
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “Paint”
Paint
Photo credit: IFC Films
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “Paint”
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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.
 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.
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “Paint”Paint
Photo credit: IFC Films
Continue reading for Spike Walter’s full review of “Paint”
