For nearly 20 years, the Austin, Texas, based Fantastic Fest has grown to be the largest genre film festival in the country, bringing films from both new directors and veteran […]
After what seemed to be a pretty hot day on Friday, Riot Fest attendees were met with an equally sweltering if not more so day two. And with little by […]
Choreographer Stephanie Martinez founded PARA.MAR Dance Theatre in 2020 as an antidote to the pandemic’s despair, loss, and isolation. Anthology is a curated selection of six dances by Martinez and […]
It’s one of my life’s great treasures to stumble upon a new artist you connect with, made even better when they’re from our great city of Chicago! I only recently […]
Steep Theatre’s world premiere play, Happy Days Are Here (Again) replays a familiar story (sexual abuse in the Catholic Church) and introduces a new one (a Palestinian adapting to American teen life) […]
The sun was out and the temps were high, but that couldn’t slow down the crowds for the first day of Riot Fest. A sort of homecoming after a brief […]
This review was written by Tory Crowley. Watching All Happy Families, the latest film from co-writer/director Haroula Rose, feels comfortingly familiar. It’s set on the North side of Chicago in […]
One of the big opening night offerings at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas (more coverage to come from easily one of the highest-profile genre festivals in the world) […]
Snagging a Best Screenplay award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and giving Demi Moore arguably the best role of her career, The Substance hits like a hammer with its […]
I’m just the age where Transformers of any kind (the Hasbro toys, animated series, the many movies) didn’t really have much of an impact on me. As a result, familiar […]
A Different Man, the latest film from writer/director Aaron Schimberg, seems to have been created based on the filmmaker’s working relationship with one of the movie’s stars, Adam Pearson, who […]
Over a two-evening span, Dame Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque Orchestra and Chorus provided a once-in-a-lifetime musical experience. On Tuesday, with the help of soprano Joélle Harvey, tenor […]
