I enter every film based on anything other than an original screenplay the same way: I’m of a firm belief that you shouldn’t have to have had any exposure to […]

[soliloquy id=”8390″] We’re only four days out from Christmas, everyone! We here at Third Coast hope the rest of your holiday planning, travelling and shopping go well, but we also […]

I’ve had many people ask me about this film (perhaps because it’s one of the few holiday releasees suitable for the entire family), and they’ve referred to it as “that […]

Welcome back to Third Coast Rewind where we are continuing to share selected readings from the Kill Your Darlings series. Chicago’s live lit series Kill Your Darlings was originally performed […]

2016 has been quite the tumultuous year, however, luckily the music has remained as stellar as ever. The Third Coast Review music crew has rounded up our top tracks of […]

On a clear, frigid evening last week, despite the rush of traffic outside on Michigan Avenue and the fifteen hundred people seated inside, their breath still visible in the chilled […]

Lucas Hnath’s play The Christians at Steppenwolf Theatre challenges the belief systems of its characters on stage as well as those of religious and nonreligious audience members. The heart of The Christians […]

Standing onstage, Laura Jane Grace is the embodiment of a punk rocker. Part Joan Jett, part Debbie Harry, Grace commands her pop-punk band Against Me! with ease and a crooked smile. […]

The major retrospective examining the works of László Moholy-Nagy at the Art Institute of Chicago presents not only his prolific output, but also the amazing range of his art despite his […]

Illusions of Magic: Love and Intrigue in 1933 Chicago resurrects three little-known aspects of history: the 1933 assassination attempt on Franklin D. Roosevelt that killed Chicago mayor Anton Cermak, the […]

One of the better purely hand-drawn animated films of 2016, Long Way North tells the tale of Sasha (voiced by Christa Théret), a Russian teenager circa 1882, whose grandfather was […]

Sometimes a movie is bad just because it’s bad, and sometimes it’s bad because it wants so passionately to be good that it chokes on its noble intentions. The last […]