From the mind of Stephen King’s offspring, son Joe Hill, The Black Phone (based on Hill’s short story) concerns a pair of siblings navigating their difficult lives circa 1978. Thirteen-year-old […]
Admittedly, MTV’s “Beavis and Butt-Head” series (which began in 1993) and the characters’ first movie, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996) are works that I dearly loved when they were […]
The Handcuffs are one of those bands who will play live shows relatively frequently, but feel no rush to release their albums. I think part of this is grounded in […]
For the second time in a week, a Chicago orchestra’s conductor was suddenly sidelined due to a positive COVID-19 test just hours before a concert. Last Thursday, this happened to […]
I’ll keep this short – but it won’t be sweet. The Goodman Theatre’s production of Toronto playwright Britta Johnson’s freshman musical Life After starts promisingly, with an absolutely spectacular set […]
It’s the last weekend of Pride month and the events just keep rolling in. Whether you’re heading to The Pride Parade or any of the other amazing events, there really […]
It seems only right to preface this review by acknowledging that Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet, that frenetic, overdramatic, brilliantly contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy, is a formative film […]
Filmmaker James Jones (On the President’s Orders, The Riots 2011) has a history of making documentaries about events of the past that have an almost deafening relevance in the present […]
What says snobby teens with step-sibling issues and boy band music cruising the airwaves better than the movie Cruel Intentions? It was a movie made for the’90s. It was a […]
Bob Dylan is having a bit of a late-career cultural moment. His most recent album, Rough and Rowdy Ways, was released in June 2019, and the featured single, “Murder Most […]
Paris is a workplace comedy or more accurately, a tragicomedy. It’s tinged with sadness, tainted with racism and with the despair of workers in low-paying, dead-end jobs. It’s set during Christmas […]
Capcom is known for creating great fighting game franchises over the decades, especially the Street Fighter series. While there have been a number of Street Fighter collections, there hasn’t ever […]
