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agentnico · 1 year

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Paint (2023) Review

I dressed up as Bob Ross at a party last year. All was well and dandy if it weren’t for another guest having shown up in exactly the same costume. I may have had the bigger fake wig, but he had the grander bushier real beard. It was truly a tragedy for the ages.

Plot: Carl Nargle, a local treasure with a soothing whisper of a voice, hosts his own painting show on Vermont public television. His art has attracted the attention of many women over the years, especially those who work at the station. However, when a new painter gets hired to revitalize the channel, Carl's own fears regarding his talents as an artist are brought to the forefront.

So unlike the poster and trailer may make one think, this is not actually a Bob Ross biopic. Yes, Owen Wilson has the signature afro perm and the soft melodic calming tone of voice, and he does indeed paint landscape paintings on a TV show, but this is not the 80′s art celebrity we know. Paint is a movie that asks what if Bob Ross weren’t a benevolent and kind hearted cultural force, but actually a womanizing and arrogant megalomaniacal prick? As such, to not tarnish the name of the original legend, the movie creates this fictional persona of Carl Nargle who shares the charming DNA to his real life counterpart, but in this case is a bit of an a-hole. So yes, this is a What If scenario, and an amusing one at that, especially with respect to the current MeToo movement, however the result doesn’t work for an entire feature length film.

Paint is very much a Saturday Night Live sketch that has been stretched to its limits, and as soon as the novelty of a womanizing Bob Ross wares off within the first 10 minutes, the rest of the film suffers from an identity crisis, wondering what it wants to be and where it wants to go. I will say its evident that director Brit McAdams and his crew have really good intentions and try so hard to create a charming little indie movie, with the world they create reminiscent of the awkward weirdness of the likes of Twin Peaks, and the filming style inspired by the colour palettes of Wes Anderson, Richard Linklater and Woody Allen. Owen Wilson too is seriously committing to the bit, delivering the soft spoken performance of a rock-listening retro-van-driving hipster painter, and even though the character is very morally incorrect, it’s hard not to warm up to Owen Wilson. And that perm on his head is a thing of beauty! Rest of the ensemble is unfortunately stuck with very weak written unmemorable roles, with only Stephen Root managing to bring his usual signature weasel slimy antics as the head of the TV network.

There are moments in Paint that are truly amusing, including a scene where Owen Wilson is attempting to steal newspapers from people’s front doors that has a negative article written about him whilst obeying by the highway code, or setting all his artwork on fire and then sitting in an armchair in the midst of it all smoking a pipe, or a fun little end joke about his connection to Banksy. Again, I don’t think the movie deserves the outright hate its been getting from critics online, as its by no means terrible, however for a movie about Owen Wilson playing a Bob Ross-type I feel this is a missed opportunity for what could have been a truly weird and unique comedy. Instead, it is just okay.

Overall score: 5/10

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rookie-critic · 1 year

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Linoleum (2023, dir. Colin West) - review by Rookie-Critic

I love it when a movie surprises me. Some of my favorite moviegoing experiences from the last few years have been going into something relatively blind, and coming out with something I will absolutely never forget. It gave me C'mon C'mon, my top film from 2021, it gave me The Worst Person in the World, my #3 film 2021, and it has now given me Linoleum. The film follows Jim Gaffigan's Cameron Edwin, an astronomer who hosts a declining children's science show à la Bill Nye the Science Guy who, due to the said decline of his show as well as his marriage, which is on the brink of divorce, is in the middle of a well-earned mid-life crisis. Also, a car with an award-winning astronaut in it falls from the sky next to his mailbox and he is the only person who witnesses the "accident," and nobody believes it really happened. The film invokes a lot of magical realism and, from the opening scene, evokes a Gondry-esque dream-like quality not too far removed from the French director's films Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and The Science of Sleep.

The film is mean to it's protagonist, but not in a malicious way: his daughter Nora (portrayed by Katelyn Nacon in a fantastic performance) is disrespectful to him in a way that teenagers often are, but clearly has a love for him as she watches and seems to genuinely enjoy his children's show, his wife (portrayed by a fresh-off Better Call Saul Rhea Seehorn in an equally fantastic performance), who is in the process of falling out of love with him, still shows the hallmark signs of lingering care for this person she'd built a life with. Everything feels very domestic and real in it's dreaminess, but still, something about the full picture isn't quite right. That is, until the third act, when the film slams all of its individual, seemingly disjointed and mysterious pieces together to form a complete 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle of a moving and incredible story about how we live our lives and how, looking back, it is a beautiful and wondrous miracle that we all get to spend any amount of time on this small, blue rock we call planet Earth with one another. It shows us that, between despair and hope, between love and hate, that ultimately, hope prevails, love wins, and our intrinsic curiosity about the universe drives us forward towards something fantastic. What that is will be different for everyone, but there is beauty in that unknown, and we should all strive to close our eyes and let the universe form that fantastic something around us and guide us through it.

Normally, I'd take a handful of sentences here to talk about things I didn't like about the film. I could say that the film's final act takes big, artistic swings that will most likely not please all viewers. I could say that elements of the story don't mesh well with the answers to the film's mysteries. These are things that I can see people complaining about with Linoleum, but I would urge those people to watch it again, and really open your mind up to what the film is doing with that third act. Don't be the person telling Cameron to be more practical and that the answer is "not that simple," because the truth is, much like we're told in the film, it probably is. I used to not cry at films at all, and I would tell people that something would have to be truly, uniquely moving to draw tears out of me. Over the past few years I've realized that is no longer the case (maybe it never was), and I openly and proudly cry frequently during movies and shows. I genuinely believe that, had I seen this back when I didn't shed the frequent tear, that I would still have done so while watching Linoleum. It ticked all the right boxes and did all the right things to make it an instant classic in my eyes, and I can't recommend it highly enough.

Score: 10/10

Only in theaters as a limited release. Check your local listing to see if it's playing in a theater near you.

#Linoleum #Colin West #Jim Gaffigan #Rhea Seehorn #Katelyn Nacon #Gabriel Rush #Roger Hendricks Simon #Elisabeth Henry #West Duchovny #Tony Shalhoub #Amy Hargreaves #Michael Ian Black #film review #movie review #2023 films

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franknicely · 1 year

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LINOLEUM (2022) Directed by Colin West

#linoleum #colin west #roger hendricks simon #elisabeth henry

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diioonysus · 2 months

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creatures in art: mermaids & sirens

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ulrichgebert · 2 years

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Ganz besonders schön, anrührend und nur ein ganz kleines bisschen absurd geworden sind Patrick Wangs weitläufige, zweiteilige Geschichten rund um das kleinstädtische Kulturzentrum Bread Factory. Ein vorgeblich chinesisches Aktionskünstlerpaar ist nebenan in einem neugebauten Aktionskünstlertempel eingezogen und macht ihnen die Schulzuschüsse streitig, und auch sonst ist es schwierig. Überall Gentrifizierung, Touristen und steptanzende Yuppies im Café, ganz zu schweigen vom singenden Immobilienhai-Quartett. Der Besucheransturm für ihre Produktion von Hecuba ist auch etwas mager, so daß sich Greta und Dorothea, des reizende Paar, das die Einrichtung seit 40 Jahren leitet, fast fragen, ob das alles die Mühe Wert ist. Aber anregender als das, was die Aktionkünstler machen ist es allemal, und Tyne Daly, die die resolute Kunst- und Bildungsverfechterin Dorothea spielt, hat sowieso schon mal 1000 Pluspunkte, weil sie auf der allerersten Aufnahme von Gypsy, die ich mir zulegte, Mama Rose sang. Und sie kann auch kochen.

#A Bread Factory #Tyne Daly #Elisabeth Henry #Brian Murray #Zachary Sayle #Keaton Nigel Cooke #Janet Hsieh #George Young #Film gesehen #Patrick Wang

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cy-lindric · 1 year

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Last of their name

#house of valois #french history #charles ix #henri iii #françois d'alençon #marguerite de navarre #claude de france #elisabeth de france #diane de france #françois II #la reine margot

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dancinginashesandshadow · 9 months

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Wanna share with you my musical bookmarks project ❤️

#the phantom of the opera #christine daae #dracula the musical #mina murray #elisabeth das musical #kaiserin sissi #tanz der vampire #herbert von krolock #jekyll and hyde #henry jekyll #edward hyde #les miserables #javert #my art #ann illustrates

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charlotte-of-wales · 5 months

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♔ The direct line of succession of European Monarchies (as of January 14, 2024)

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world-of-wales · 1 year

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♚♛ EUROPEAN MONARCHS AND THEIR HEIRS ♛♚

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♔ UNITED KINGDOM┆ King Charles III → William, The Prince of Wales → Prince George of Wales

♔ SPAIN┆King Felipe VI → Princess Leonor, The Princess of Asturias

♔ BELGIUM┆ King Philippe → Princess Elisabeth, Duchess of Brabant

♔ SWEDEN ┆ King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden → Crown Princess Victoria, Duchess of Västergötland → Princess Estelle, Duchess of Östergötland

♔ DENMARK ┆ Queen Margrethe II → Crown Prince Frederik → Prince Christian

♔ NORWAY ┆ King Harald V of Norway → Crown Prince Haakon → Princess Ingrid Alexandra

♔ LUXEMBOURG ┆ Grand Duke Henri → Hereditary Grand Duke Guillaume → Prince Charles

♔ NETHERLANDS┆ King Willem-Alexander → Princess Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange

♔ MONACO┆ Prince Albert II → Hereditary Prince Jacques, → Princess Gabriella, Countess of Carladès

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queenalexandraofdenmark · 3 months

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#my polls #princess victoria of hesse #victoria mountbatten #grand duchess elisabeth feodorovna #elisabeth of hesse #princess irene of hesse #princess henry of prussia #empress alexandra feodorovna #alix of hesse #hessian sisters #hessian

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ha1taniwh0re · 1 year

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Welcome to the Pirates of the Caribbean masterlist

Hector Barbossa

{There treasure }

{My jolly sailor bold }

{Dinner date}

{Imagine Devy Jones's, Barbossa's, Jack's and William's lover fighting Infront of them}

{She doesn't like the captain}

{I took everything from you}

{Captain of Dutchman}={1}{2}

Jack Sparrow

{Im here for you}

{Imagine Devy Jones's, Barbossa's, Jack's and William's lover fighting Infront of them}

Will Turner

{My hero...}

{Imagine Devy Jones's, Barbossa's, Jack's and William's lover fighting Infront of them}

Davy Jones

{Imagine Devy Jones's, Barbossa's, Jack's and William's lover fighting Infront of them}

{Do we have a deal?}

Elizabeth Swann

{Beautiful scars }

{Good morning}

{Imagine Devy Jones's, Barbossa's, Jack's and William's lover fighting Infront of them}

James Norington

Tia Dalma/Calypso

{Imagine Devy Jones's, Barbossa's, Jack's and William's lover fighting Infront of them}

Gibs

Sao Feng

{Pirate Lady Feng}

{What's your real name}

Henry Turner

Carina Barbossa

Angelica

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Salazar

{Somewhere in Caribbean sea}

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roehenstart · 1 month

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Élisabeth-Marguerite d'Orléans, petite-fille de France (1646-1696). Par Charles et Henri Beaubrun.

#charles beaubrun #henri beaubrun #royaume de france #maison de bourbon #maison d'orléans #bourbon orleans #petite fille de france #petite fille #elisabeth marguerite d'orleans #duchesse de guise #mademoiselle d'alençon #alençon #kingdom of france #princesse d'orléans

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frenchcurious · 10 months

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Citroën SM Chapron Présidentielle avec la Reine Elisabeth et Georges Pompidou en 1972. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

#elisabeth ii d'angleterre #georges pompidou #citroën #henri chapron

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frankenstaning · 1 year

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Go for it, Walton!!

#Henry x Victor x Elizabeth x Robert #creature is not a fan #sketch #victor frankenstein #henry clerval #elisabeth lavenza #robert walton #frankenstein's monster #Frankenstein #what are the other ship names

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letterboxd-loggd · 12 days

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The French Dispatch (2021) Wes Anderson

May 12th 2024

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jezabelofthenorth · 11 months

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on 2 April 1546, a scant two years later, Catherine delivered a baby girl just before midnight. This second delivery was difficult, and Catherine was bedridden for weeks afterwards. She recovered in time, though, for the baptism in July, held at Fontainebleau. More than a christening, this baptismal ceremony was a celebration of the recent reconciliation between King Francis and Henry VIII of England after the English king’s assault on Boulogne two years earlier. At Fontainebleau, the guests ogled lavish banners sewn with English and French coats of arms that were hung throughout the palace and admired the French and English heralds who stood trumpeting side by side. At the baptismal font, Thomas Cheney, the English ambassador, cradled the baby in his arms, standing proxy for Henry VIII, who agreed to serve as godfather for this child, just as he had for her father. Henry chose a name for the new princess that was dear to his heart: Elisabeth, after his beloved mother and his own daughter, Elizabeth Tudor, who was twelve years old.

Young Queens: Three Renaissance Women and the Price of Power, Leah Redmond Chang

#quotes #catherine de medici #henry viii #elizabeth i #elisabeth of valois

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