Review: King of Fighters XV Features Rollback Netcode, Lackluster Fighting
The King of Fighters series has been around for a long time, with its first game releasing all the way back in 1994. With this as its 15th main game […]
Review: Chicago’s Lost Boys: Mother Chicago, by Martin Billheimer
Mother Chicago: Truant Dreams and Specters Over the Gilded Age By Martin Billheimer Feral House Chicago is a dark place. All cities are. The more humans you pack into a […]
Review: Marry Me Proposes a RomCom With Plenty of Product Placement but Zero Chemistry
Sometimes film reviews are hard to write. Especially, at least for me, reviews for films I don’t have strong feelings about one way or another. Finding ways to say, “Meh, […]
Review: The Conductor Chronicles One Woman’s History-Making Career in Classical Music
Every year, a couple dozen of our country’s best and brightest are recognized as MacArthur Fellows; colloquially, it’s known as the “Genius Grant,” a no-strings-attached gift of $625,000 (raised in […]
Review: The Worst Person in the World Is the Best Grown-up Coming-of-Age Dramedy of the Year
Is it possible to make a coming-of-age film about a grown woman? Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31; Thelma) achieves just that in The Worst Person in the World, a beautifully […]
Review: Steven Soderbergh Returns to Streaming With Kimi, a Tight, Fascinating Thriller About Technology and Credibility
Filmmaker Steven Soderbergh continues his streak of being “retired” from making movies by releasing what I believe is his fourth or fifth movie in a row directly to a streaming […]
Review: Infernax Is an Homage to the Classics
I’ve been playing a whole lot of retro games lately, and it’s hard to capture that retro game look and feel without compromising too many modern quality of life upgrades. […]
Dispatch: Post-Sundance, Several Films are Still Worth Watching Out For
Yes, the Sundance Film Festival ended more than two weeks ago. But that doesn’t mean we aren’t still thinking about the films we saw during this year’s all-virtual event. In […]
Review: Liam Neeson’s Latest, Blacklight Takes Too Many Shortcuts, Short-Changing Audiences
If the people who made the new political thriller Blacklight had any guts, the story would have been told from the perspective of journalist Mira Jones (Emmy Raver-Lampman, The Umbrella […]
Preview: REFLEX Unravels 4,000 Years of Juggling
The world premiere of REFLEX, a solo juggling show by renowned performer Jay Gilligan, (produced by Hideaway Circus) recently had its world premiere in Brooklyn’s Mitu580, an art and performance […]
Review: Kingdom of the Dead Is Just Another Mediocre Retro Inspired Shooter
I’ve been a huge first person shooter fan since the very early days of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom (1993). It’s rare to see not only a first person shooter with […]
Review: Black Women’s Work Underpins Goodman Theatre’s Gem of the Ocean
Black history is continuously under attack, even during Black History Month. Some jurisdictions and politicians are busily banning books and curriculums that even mention America’s original sin of slavery. Playwright […]