Film Review: Patti Cake$ is an Exhilarating Hip-hop Fairy Tale
Apparently being a crowd-pleasing film is a problem for some, and it is for me too when a work panders and manipulates with no shame. But Patti Cake$, feature film […]
Film Review: Good Time Rattled Us in All the Best Ways
With their most recent two features, Daddy Longlegs and Heaven Knows What, the brotherly directing team of Ben and Joshua Safdie have engaged in something they’ve referred to as hybrid […]
Game Review: Minecraft: Story Mode – Season 2 Episode 2 Reveals Admin’s True Powers
Moderate spoilers follow: Minecraft: Story Mode – Season 2 is an episodic game with new episodes releasing monthly. Check out the review of episode 1 here. Minecraft: Story Mode – […]
Film Review: Shot Caller Argues That Your Past is Inescapable
Shot Caller is the latest in a long and frustratingly high number of decent films that get buried in suburban theaters because there either aren’t enough screens in the area […]
Film Review: Steven Soderbergh Returns With the Flat-Out Funny Logan Lucky
In times like these, it’s difficult to know what’s real and what isn’t, what’s sane and what isn’t, or where exactly good in the world still exists. But one thing […]
Film Review: The Trip to Spain Feels Familiar Yet Refreshing
This review won’t take long because I’m guessing you already know if you want to see this. If you’ve seen the extraordinarily funny and clever collaborations between comic actors Steve […]
Game Review: West of Loathing – Bringing Adventure to Y’All
Minor game spoilers follow: West of Loathing is the follow-up to a free-to-play turn based RPG called Kingdom of Loathing. Though maybe not on everyone’s gaming radar, Kingdom of Loathing had and has […]
Nothing Says ‘Punk’ Like Rancid and Dropkick Murphys
Last week, thousands of punk fans gathered at Northerly Island to see two of the greatest bands to ever grace the genre: Rancid and Dropkick Murphys. Both bands have been […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 8/17 – 8/20
It’s big weekend for fun and unique events with the Air and Water Show taking over the lakefront and people heading out of town and down into southern Illinois to get […]
The Skies Have It: Unique Places to View the Air and Water Show
If you’ve not noticed the influx of fancy planes flying overhead already, you certainly will this weekend as the Chicago Air and Water Show takes over the beaches for its […]
Theatre Oobleck’s Closed Casket: Baudelaire’s Final Act
It is no small undertaking to decide to adapt Charles Baudelaire’s seminal 19th century volume of poetry, Les fleurs du mal. Some may find its sheer length and poetic complexity daunting, […]
Expressionist Machinal Tells Powerful Feminist Story at the Greenhouse Theater Center
The play opens with a symphony of switchboard operators, those 1920s-era office workers who kept people talking by plugging phones into jacks, greeting and connecting the world outside with the […]