It may be theater…or perhaps film. But it’s not exactly a play. It’s a surreal symphony of exotic makeup and dynamic video editing with original music and voices that speak […]

The last we saw Kris Rey as writer/director (she had a small on-screen role in Damien Chazelle’s First Man last year), she delivered Unexpected, a sweetly thoughtful exploration of motherhood […]

  In recent years, many games have asked the player to consider the important question of the morality of their actions. Spec Ops: The Line, Hotline Miami, and The Last of […]

With the national election less three months away, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t spend some portion of every day saying a silent prayer (to whom, I’m not […]

Sometimes, having its heart in the right place is enough to make a good movie just a little bit more endearing. Case in point: the new World War II-era drama […]

I can’t think of a film—documentary or otherwise—with a more horrifying opening few minutes than the Ron Howard-directed documentary Rebuilding Paradise, which begins with mostly cell phone-captured footage of the […]

More and more games are focusing on the effect of mental health issues. I still hold up Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice as one of the best examples of a game highlighting […]

Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore Harper, 306 pages, $26.99 Elizabeth Wetmore’s Valentine, set in 1976 rural West Texas, is a novel of relentless and brutally raw outrage. A fury-filled howl of […]

Chicago has been letting businesses reopen their doors for quite a while now. So if you’re going to a drive-in  movie (like Chicago Drive In, Drive-in at Lincoln Yards Lot, […]

It’s been a few weeks since the Mortal Shell open beta ended. I had meant to get in an article about my hands-on impressions, but I never found the time. […]

Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury By Neil Harris with Teri J. Edelstein University of Chicago Press, 364 pages, $85 Reading Neil Harris’s Chicago Apartments: A Century […]

Manual Cinema’s 10th Anniversary Retrospectacular, launched this week, will bring back four of the company’s most inventive shows from the past 10 years. The four productions will be shown on […]