Preview: Atmosphere Celebrate 30 Years with The Winter Carnival Tour
Hard to believe that it’s been 30 years of the Minneapolis hip-hop duo Atmosphere. Composed of MC Slug and producer Ant, Atmosphere have dished out over a dozen albums, a […]
Review: German Drama Sound of Falling Depicts Generations of Women and the Traumas, Confusion and Struggles of Their Varied Lives
Towards the end of any given year, I find myself with a long list of films I want to see before the calendar flips over and not enough time to […]
Review: Otherworld Theatre’s Prospera: A Sci-Fi Retelling Imagines a New World But Gets Too Complicated
Prospera: A Sci-Fi Retelling is a fanciful but complicated story in its new production by Otherworld Theatre. The play is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s late play, The Tempest, but you […]
Review: Trio Seoul Wows the Audience at the Northwestern Winter Chamber Music Festival
With an unbelievable combination of youthful exuberance and mature technique, Trio Seoul wowed a large audience at Pick-Staiger Concert Hall in Evanston on Sunday. They did it with a program […]
Interview: Filmmaker Ryan Prows on Making Night Patrol, Writing New Genre Rules and Crowning Justin Long as New Scream King
I got back nearly 10 years with filmmaker Ryan Prows, whose 2017 debut film Lowlife is one of the most substantial calling-card movies I’ve seen in my years as a […]
Interview: Filmmaker Mona Fastvold on What Led Her to The Testament of Ann Lee, Casting Amanda Seyfried and Films About Furniture
In recent years, Norwegian-born filmmaker Mona Fastvold has divided her time between co-writing her own films (The Sleepwalker) as well as those directed by her partner, Brady Corbet (The Brutalist, […]
Review: Green Corridors at Trap Door Theatre Tells a Ukrainian Playwright’s Story of War and Displacement
Green Corridors focuses on the stories of four Ukrainian women and other citizens trying to escape the brutality of Russian attacks on Ukraine in the war that Russia started in […]
Review: Almost Always Takes The Scenic Route and Makes It Last
Frontman Kristopher Evans belts out the first lyric to “Run River,” the opening track off The Scenic Route, the debut EP of Chicago’s newest emo-laden pop punk outfit Almost Always, […]
On the Road: A Midwesterner Decodes the Chaos of the British Pantomime
Third Coast Review contributor Tory Crowley is a native Midwesterner currently living in Budapest, Hungary. Please enjoy her European cultural notes. When I told my British co-worker that I’d be […]
Review: Matt Damon and Ben Affleck Reunite for Police Caper The Rip, Set in a House Built of Money
Loosely based on a true story, The Rip tells the tale of a group of Miami cops who receive a tip about a stash house with millions of dollars of […]
Review: In 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple, Filmmaker Nia DaCosta Achieves That Rare Film Feat, Improving an Already Legendary Franchise
When you examine previous films from Nia DaCosta (Candyman, The Marvels, Hedda) and the now-four-film 28 (Days/Weeks/Years) Later franchise, you’ll notice one important thing: they rarely repeat themselves. Ignoring the […]
Review: Jodie Foster Impresses—in French and English—in A Private Life, a Mystery with Heart
There are plenty of instances of French actors finding stardom in English-language cinema, from Isabelle Huppert and Jean Reno to Marion Cotillard and Vincent Cassel. It’s more rare for an […]