When COVID-19 closed taprooms and cancelled festivals, I looked for ways to still engage with Chicago’s craft beer scene. I therefore decided to finally work my way through The Complete Beer […]

After creating a series of effective shorts in recent years, writer/director Rose Glass’ debut feature, Saint Maud, is finally getting released stateside after being delayed a year because of you […]

He’s not even the star of this movie, but I have to say, Christopher Abbott has had a hell of a past 12 months as far as compelling performances go. […]

The Sundance Film Festival wrapped last week, and even though it was entirely virtual this year, it turns out it still takes just as long to recover from long days […]

Like so many events forced to reschedule (and reimagine) their plans because of the pandemic, the news came fairly early, relatively speaking, that the 2021 Academy Awards would be delayed […]

We’ve had a small handful of films made in the last year that have a pandemic as their backdrop, or were filmed during the current pandemic and either do or […]

I’ve liked the two films director Mike Cahill made in collaboration with actress and co-writer Britt Marling, Another Earth and I Origins. His latest work, Bliss, marks a departure from […]

Sometimes an argument between lovers is just an argument; and sometimes, it’s a systematic, brick-by-brick take down of everything that person likes about themselves. From writer/director Sam Levinson (Assassination Nation) […]

While Bandcamp Fridays may have taken January off, that won’t be the case for the foreseeable future. Bandcamp Fridays, which started as a way of helping bands make a little […]

An homage to Lou Rawls and to the St. Louis poet who became a Brit.     February is the cruelest month. Where did T.S. Eliot get that April business? […]

Kinetic Edge is a game that immediately gives me Marble Madness vibes. In case you’re not familiar, it’s that arcade game that many knew as an NES title from the […]

Things aren’t fully ok in the world yet as the continuing pandemic is still keeping certain establishments closed and that means you should take precautions seriously. If you’re going out […]