English rapper Blane Muise, better known on stage as Shygirl, brought the storm with her on the Nymph World Tour (Part 1) last Friday night. The possibility of severe weather […]

Ida is smart and tough. She’s mayor and police chief in her new town of Progress, but she still can’t get the pump to pump water. At least that’s the […]

We’re not going to lie – this has been the biggest year at C2E2 since pre-pandemic. The floor (which is now wider and sans red carpet) was packed to the […]

Is there anything more Chicago than a Wilco show? Last weekend, Chicago indie icons Wilco sold out The Riv for three nights, promising fans a completely unique setlist each night. […]

Puddin’ is a slim volume, small enough to tuck in a back pocket or a small purse. That size may suggest a good way to read this “memoir in prose poems” […]

When you start talking about a return to normal, what does that mean? It really depends on the place and the vibe. For C2E2, this year feels like the first […]

Nature is returning and so are the Friday crowds at C2E2! We were happy to see a quite full convention hall with plenty of amazing costumes to behold on C2E2 […]

There is nothing quite like heading into the creative mind of Quentin Dupieux, a filmmaker known for quirky, sharp indies like Rubber, about a homicidal car tire, and Deerskin, about […]

A work filled with secrets and lies, but also hard truths that seem like a dare to those in the film to survive and even thrive, first-time feature writer/director A.V. […]

Born in the Netherlands, schooled in the United States, and living in Japan in the late 1980s, video game licenser Hank Rogers (Taron Egerton) doesn’t exactly seem like the most […]

I’m sure a lot of people who review this latest attempt at a Dungeons & Dragons movie are going to feel the need to tell you their history with the […]

If you’ve ever thought a film about an older man desperately trying to make contact with alien life forms should be a metaphor for his daughter’s attempt to make contact […]