In a work that has a few saving graces but doesn’t quite come together as a cohesive unit, No Man’s Land comes courtesy of director Conor Allyn, whose brother Jake […]

Point-and-click adventure games have been around since the early days of video games. The simpler nature of the point-and-click gameplay means those games generally require less technology. That simplicity also […]

Less a nuanced examination of small-time underworld behavior in the city of Brotherly Love and more a collection of lame tough-guy behaviors and dialogue, Brother by Blood (which is also […]

The week’s biggest and most satisfying surprise come in the form of the filmed one-man performance from director Frank Oz, Derek DelGaudio’s In and of Itself, a production that is […]

In 2015, writer Matt Teague had an article published in Esquire entitled “The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word” that focused on the roughly two-year period that his […]

Things still aren’t fully ok in the world, even with Trump officially out of office and Chicago moving back to tier 2.  The continuing pandemic is causing things to remain […]

There are a dozen no name voxel indies on Steam today and it can be hard to parse the wheat from the chaff, so I’m here to tell you about […]

Hand Dryers By Samuel Ryde Unicorn Publishing Group Distributed by the University of Chicago Press Books In the appropriately senseless year of 2020, Hand Dryers, by Samuel Ryde, was published. […]

As part of their WorldStage series, Chicago Shakespeare is offering a visit with illusionist and mentalist Scott Silven from his childhood home in rural Scotland—or as he says, “in the […]

A young student approaches Northwestern University’s arts center at the beginning of Orfeo Remote, a thoroughly modernized, virtual interpretation of the historic Claudio Monteverdi opera L’Orfeo. Finding the doors locked […]

Few actors have had as many of their films come out during the last year or so as Liam Neeson. I’m guessing if there hadn’t been a pandemic, films like […]

So I wrote about Everspace 2 during its prototype phase, way back in May of last year. What I got to play then was a solid framework for an action […]