For as much vitriol is being shot this week at the emotional dishonesty of a film like Hillbilly Elegy, I find that crime far more on display in a work […]
I miss real-time strategy games in the mainstream. I know they’re still around, but we haven’t had a title like Warcraft III or Starcraft in a long time—Warcraft III Remastered […]
What year were you born:? If you are lucky enough to meet Margaret Atwood, she might ask you that. Knowing when someone was born tells her what happened to them, […]
Things still aren’t fully ok in the world and with Chicago tightening their rules more and more with travel restrictions and with a suggested stay-at-home request, that means you should […]
The first thing you should do before seeing David Fincher’s Mank is re-watch (or watch for the first time, you cinema philistine) 1941’s Citizen Kane and maybe even do a little […]
Sometimes with movies, being given what you want is preferable to being given what you need. I remain a great admirer of the Happy Death Day movies because they delivered […]
Whenever Werner Herzog directs and narrates a documentary that involves vast landscapes and/or ancient religions, sign me up. Co-helmed with Clive Oppenheimer, Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds involves the pair […]
I’m not here to judge the best-selling memoir of J.D. Vance or his conservative politics the way others seem to do in their reviews of the film adaptation of Hillbilly […]
I think we’ve all seen a game that we immediately assumed would be trash. Movie tie-ins, shovelware, rip offs of more popular titles, anything on Steam that’s in Early Access […]
DedSec is back, and the team is bigger than ever. The largest selling point for Watch Dogs: Legion, the latest entry in publisher Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs series, has players swapping […]
The Project(s), a documentary-style theater piece that tells the story of Chicago public housing, past and present, had its world premiere in May 2015 at American Theater Company (shut down […]
I love retro games, especially those I might have missed when I was a kid. Strife fits the bill—developed in 1996, it was released at the height of my obsession […]
