For the unaware (myself included), “pillion” is the word for the second seat on a motorcycle, that spot just behind the driver where one can hold on for dear life […]
Landing somewhere between a concert film and a traditional biographical documentary, director Baz Luhrmann’s EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert is meant to be more of an experience about what made […]
Although I don’t believe it’s being credited as such, this former Blacklist screenplay from writer/director John Patton Ford (Emily the Criminal) is actually an amusing reworking of the 1949 Ealing […]
More than 30 years ago, two hundred trees—cottonwoods, mainly, with some horse chestnuts and hackberries—were cut down behind Lane Technical High School, and only arborist Robert Wulkowicz was there to […]
When “off-loop” Chicago theater hits on all cylinders, it packs an artistic punch that transcends limited budgets and reminds you why this city’s small stages matter. Come Back, Little Sheba, […]
This review was written by Zach Carstensen. Each February for the past 27 years, Dennis Northway has convened musicians to perform the work of George Frideric Handel in Oak Park. […]
Each February, thick-blooded Chicago punks gather on a side street in Ukrainian Village to mosh in assuredly dreadful weather while would-be concertgoers across the country are holed up in their […]
You may appreciate the play Hamnet because you loved Maggie O’Farrell’s 2020 novel or the 2025 film directed by Chloé Zhao. In either case, your view of the Hamnet story […]
The Outsiders, a 2024 musical based on the 1967 S.E. Hinton novel about coming-of-age in 1960s Tulsa, Oklahoma, returns to Chicago in its first national Broadway tour. The word “returns” […]
At the top of the end credits of Crime 101, the new heist drama, starring Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Halle Berry and Barry Keoghan, is the line “Based on the […]
Marking the feature film debut from director Tyree Dillihay (who helmed many episodes of Bob’s Burgers over the years) and co-director Adam Rosette, GOAT is the animated coming-of-age story of […]
Whether or not you read (or were forced to read) the 1847 novel by Emily Brontë doesn’t really factor into the viewing of writer/director Emerald Fennell’s adaptation of Wuthering Heights. […]