The Impressive Mamby on the Beach Lineup is Here!
The festival lineups just keep coming and they’re are looking quite good! Today it’s Mamby On The Beach’s turn and they have added a very impressive lineup to the mix […]
Review: The Art and Tradition of Georgian Winemaking in Our Blood Is Wine
Documentaries about passionate people also find a way to move me deeply, and you would be hard pressed to find a more passionate group than families in the Republic of […]
Review: 7 Days in Entebbe Dramatizes a Death-Defying Rescue Mission
A great deal of cinematic attention has been paid to the hijacking/hostage-taking/hostage-rescue mission that took place at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976. In an almost unprecedented reaction, two […]
Swashbuckling Is in Style in Boho Theatre’s New Adaptation of Cyrano
Cyrano, the new adaptation of Edmund Rostand’s poetic Cyrano de Bergerac, by Michael Hollinger and Aaron Posner, is lean and hilarious. The man with the famously large nose is played […]
State Senator Says Rauner Threatened To “Destroy” Him Over Veto Override Vote
An Illinois State Senator accused Governor Bruce Rauner of threatening to “destroy” him and his family if he voted to override a bill the governor vetoed. Sen. Sam McCann (R-Plainview) […]
Chicago Tribune Lays Off More Newsroom Staff
The Chicago Tribune was hit by another round of layoffs Thursday, one day before parent company Tronc released SEC filings showing top executives received pay raises. The number of people […]
Review: Love, Simon Captures the Turmoil of High School for a Gay Lead Character
Directed by Greg Berlanti (the landmark The Broken Hearts Club as well as an executive producer on all of those CW network DC superhero shows and “Riverdale”), Love, Simon is […]
Review: Tomb Raider Is an Accessible Adventure Story
For a film based on a video game, the first thing you notice about Tomb Raider is that it doesn’t feel like a video game at all. Instead, director Roar […]
Review: Surviving Mars is a Near-Future Vision of Space Age Colonization
Developer Haemimont is best known for the last few Tropico games—a series of city building and construction management games where you would take the role of a dictator overseeing a […]
Nada Surf Revives Let Go at the Metro
“We were last here six years ago,” Matthew Caws, lead singer of Nada Surf, stated to the crowd on Monday evening. A packed crowd, meaning I couldn’t see one spot […]
Post-Punk Band Ought Rouses Lincoln Hall
With each wave of his finger, Tim Darcy had the room move with him. “I am no longer afraid to die because that is all that I have left,” he […]
EU Film Festival: Week 2 Preview
The Gene Siskel Film Center’s EU Film Festival is in full swing, with the second week of films offering a few of the festival’s biggest highlights. Including films from Croatia, […]