Saturday Night Live: The Experience Is An Exhibit As Iconic As The Show
[soliloquy id=”19975″] Saturday Night Live is an institution. For 43 seasons, you’ve been able to tune to NBC at 10:30pm Chicago time and be in that same familiar […]
Hey! Play! Games in Modern Culture Celebrates the Art of Play
It’s Chicago Design Week, and the members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, or AIGA, are embarking on week celebrating all things design. We were there Friday night as they kicked off […]
Chicago Film Festival: Award Winners Announced
On the last Friday of the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival, programmers, juries and filmmakers gathered in a theater at AMC River East for the annual Awards Ceremony, where top […]
Film Review: In Chavela, Chronicling an Icon’s Rise and Fall and Rise Again
A decade ago, Marion Cotillard won an Oscar for her portrayal of Edith Piaf in La Vie En Rose, Olivier Dahan’s biopic about the French chanteuse who enthralled a nation […]
Film Review: Take Every Wave Is an Impressive Doc Whether You Surf or Not
After tackling such subjects as prisoner abuse involving U.S. soldiers and detainees in Ghosts of Abu Ghraib; the life of grandmother Ethel Kennedy in Ethel; and the last weeks of America’s involvement […]
Film Review: Three Blues Legends Get Their Moment in Sidemen: Long Road to Glory
I have an affection and weakness for music documentaries, especially films about musicians or musical movements that I know little about. In a way, the film’s job becomes to convince […]
Film Review: Skill, Courage and a Solid Ensemble on Display in Only The Brave
A better and more compelling movie than you might think, Only the Brave tells the story of the real-life Granite Mountain Hotshots, a specially trained team of Arizona firefighters who […]
Film Review: Boring and Predictable, The Snowman Melts on Contact
Not in the least bit shocking, the internet has completely oversold just how strange and/or awful the latest work from director Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Let the Right […]
Chicago Film Festival: What To See Before It’s Over
The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival is happening now (through October 26), and the Third Coast Review film team got a chance to screen many of the film selections in […]
Interview: Sean Baker Almost Cast a Former Mouseketeer in The Florida Project
Writer-director Sean Baker has made three films in a row (all told, he’s made six) that have taken an almost hypnotic approach to reality-based fiction. In 2012’s Starlet, Baker and […]
Chicago Film Festival: What to See This Week
The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival is happening now (through October 26), and the Third Coast Review film team got a chance to screen many of the film selections in […]
Film Review: Loving Vincent is a Van Gogh Masterpiece on Screen
You often hear the claim that a film is “unlike anything you’ve seen before,” but in the case of the animated work Loving Vincent, there’s no other way to describe […]