Your #StaytheFHome Curated Weekend: 5/27 and Beyond
It’s another week closer to a fuller reopening of the city! More venues are opening up now with limited capacity, shows scheduled for the near future, and a new normal […]
Review: Heroes of the Inner Sphere Releases Alongside Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries As it Finally Hits Steam
When Mechwarrior 5: Mercenaries released as an Epic Games Store exclusive at the end of 2019, there were a lot of fans who were anticipating a Steam release left with […]
Review: Disney Aims to Create a Following for Cruella; Barely Manages More than Great Costumes
On the surface, there’s nothing terribly objectionable about the idea to make a film centered on the villain of Disney’s classic animated feature One Hundred and One Dalmatians. Cruella De Vil […]
Review: Very Very Valet Is Only One ‘Very’ Worth of Good
It is very very easy to see what makes Very Very Valet special. Following in the footsteps of predecessors like Overcooked, Stretchers and Moving Out, it uses a well […]
Preview: An Enigmatic Package Might Be a Hint to Dying Light 2’s Release Date
[soliloquy id=”90402″] The original Dead Island and Dying Light devs, Techland, have been rekindling the hype for their delayed first person zombie-meets-parkour sequel, Dying Light 2. If you’re dying […]
Review: Bisa Butler: Portraits Are Brilliantly Complex and Emotive
It felt like no coincidence that I found myself in the Art Institute’s Bisa Butler exhibit the same day I had wandered through Monet and Chicago. To view Butler’s amazing […]
Review: Creative, Colorful and Strange, Biomutant Is Unique But Familiar
Video games, like any form of media, have evolved over the years. You can almost tell what games came from what generation/era based purely on aesthetics and sensibility. Biomutant feels […]
Review: Bach Week Festival Made a Fine Return to In-person Performance
In the 2019-2020 concert season, the classical music world was absorbed in Beethoven250, the celebration of the 250th anniversary of that master’s birth. As the calendar flipped from February to […]
Review: Final Account Records a Time and Mindset That Proves a Cautionary Tale for Today
There will likely be some people who question the need for a film that collects stories of the Holocaust and Nazism from the German perspective. But director Luke Holland (who […]
Review: Tiny Tim: King for a Day Recounts the Odd Musician’s Brief but Robust Fame and Influence
If the name Herbert Butros Khaury doesn’t ring a bell, fear not: the Manhattan-born musician popular in the 1960s and ’70s was better known by his stage name, Tiny Tim. […]
Review: From Survivors to Activists, Us Kids Follows Teens Determined to Change Country’s Gun Laws
It may be understandably difficult to watch a film like Us Kids, as it not only recounts some of the most horrific mass school shootings of recent memory but unblinkingly confronts […]
Review: Meaningless Brutality and Bloodshed Muddle Whatever Message is at the Center of New Order
Michel Franco’s New Order (or Nuevo Orden in its original Spanish) traveled quite the prestige film festival circuit last year, premiering at the Venice Film Festival and subsequently included in the Toronto […]