Review: As January Horror Films Go, Escape Room Isn’t Horrible
In what has become an annual tradition at the movie theaters in early January, a PG-13 horror film has slipped in and threatened to soft-peddle largely bloodless scares in the […]
See Every Documentary Shortlisted for an Oscar at Music Box Theatre
In a cinematic feat that I’ve never seen attempted before, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has partnered with a handful of movie theaters across the country (including […]
Review: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Lives Up to its Name, Delivers the Ultimate Smash Experience
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lives up to its name. Easily the biggest (and one of the only) reveals during Nintendo’s E3 conference, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate looked poised to be […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/3 -1/6
It’s a brand new year! 2018 is behind us now, so let’s get focused on 2019. It’s that time of year when you buckle down and get started on your […]
2018 in Review: What We Liked on the Big Screen (Documentaries Edition)
The reason I separate out documentaries is not because I feel they should be judged differently than feature films, but because I want to put as many great doc titles […]
2018 in Review: What We Liked on the Big Screen (Narratives Edition)
I’m the dummy who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of… lists, and that’s because I’m often able to squeeze in about a dozen or […]
Green Drops Out of Mayor’s Race, ATU Accuses Building Management Co of Violating Tenants Rights, New Laws Take Effect – TODAY 01-02-19
Ja’Mal Green Drops Out of Race for Chicago Mayor Activist Ja’Mal Green announced Monday he would no longer continue his bid for mayor of Chicago. Green, 23, was one of […]
2018 in Review: Our Favorite Video Games
2018 is now gone, so we’re going to take a look at some of our favorite games from a year full of great releases. It was a great year for […]
2018 in Review: What We Liked in Music
It’s been a pretty great year for music. So good in fact that a top 10, top 50, top whatever, wouldn’t have captured the magic of the year. It felt […]
Interview: Stars of If Beale Street Could Talk On Getting the Part and Finding Love in Every Scene
The lead actors in If Beale Street Could Talk, the latest work from Moonlight filmmaker Barry Jenkins, had two very different paths that brought them to this extraordinary movie, adapted […]
Interview: Filmmaker Barry Jenkins on Adapting the “Unfilmable,” and Sneaking into Screenings of If Beale Street Could Talk
Writer/director Barry Jenkins has made something bold and beautiful in his third feature, If Beale Street Could Talk, based on a book by James Baldwin that has long been labeled […]
Neo-Futurists’ Burning Bluebeard Marks 115th Anniversary of Iroquois Theatre Fire
The Neo-Futurists are staging their sad and fantastical romp based on the true story of Chicago’s 1903 Iroquois Theatre fire, in which 600 audience members were killed. This short run […]