Review: Knight Squad 2 Is Party Game Goodness
I didn’t get to the original Knight Squad until about last year or so when it released for the Nintendo Switch. I thought, back then, that the party game was […]
It Takes Two Is a Fantastic Adventure for Couples
Simply put, It Takes Two is the best cooperative video game I’ve ever played. That may sound like hyperbole; a grand statement that defies explanation. But the polish and attention […]
Review: Remy Bumppo’s Radio Play—Artist Descending a Staircase—Is a Tom Stoppard Delight
Modern art, death and trippy art talk, as only Tom Stoppard can write it. That’s the best reason to listen to Remy Bumppo Theatre Company’s latest production, a radio play […]
Review: Private Arts, The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America, by Lisa Z Sigel
The People’s Porn: A History of Handmade Pornography in America By Lisa Z Sigel Reaktion Books Masturbation is the only sex act that’s both universal and forbidden. Universal in that […]
Review: Eric Rohmer’s Four-Film Series Charts Both the Seasons and Ever-Engrossing Interpersonal Relationships
I regret to say I have not spent the last year getting into the best shape of my life or launching a new side-hustle or doing any other monumental work […]
Dialogs: We Examine the Short Story with George Saunders and Four Russian Masters in CHF Event
As if to prove his versatility as a writer and creator, George Saunders’ latest book, A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, is not a work of his own […]
Review: The Brutality and Vulnerability of Conscripted Service in 1980s-Set Moffie
Back when the Apartheid regime was alive and well in South Africa in the 1980s, any boy over the age of 16 was made to complete two years of military […]
Review: Ben Falcone’s Thunder Force Only Forces Melissa McCarthy into Tired, Unfunny Gags
Can Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone just stop working together? It’s not that their films together just aren’t very good (Superintelligence, Life of the Party, The Boss, Tammy); it’s that […]
Review: Teens Discover the Human Condition on a Journey to Outer Space in Sci-Fi Thriller Voyagers
On the one hand, the latest from writer/director Neil Burger (Limitless, The Illusionist, Divergent), Voyagers, is a science fiction story that exists in a familiar scenario—the earth is soon going […]
Review: Oscar-Nominated The Man Who Sold His Skin Delivers Affecting, if Uneven, Political and Cultural Critiques
In many ways, Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated The Man Who Sold His Skin defies categorization. Set within a very recent timeline during which Syria’s war-torn cities purged millions of refugees […]
Review: Say No! More Is About the Power of “No”
Sometimes it’s hard to say “no.” People naturally want to please others or avoid conflicts. But it turns out saying “no” is exactly what you need to do sometimes. That’s […]
Review: A 1970s-Set Creep-Fest, The Power Finds Scares in Shadows and Trauma
From writer/director Corinna Faith comes The Power, a mid-1970s-set creep-fest about nurse trainee Val (Rose Williams) who arrives at a dilapidated East London hospital on her first day in the […]