Bites: What Author Cynthia Pelayo Eats in a Day
Cynthia Pelayo’s latest thriller, Vanishing Daughters, is coming out this month. Filled with nightmarish fairy tales and psychological suspense, her latest novel is set in Chicago and is soon to […]
Review: Design Museum of Chicago’s Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types Builds Community Through Style
The Design Museum of Chicago is a vibrant, compact space just off the Mag Mile and is currently running the vibrant, compact exhibit Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types through April 4. The […]
Review: My Dead Friend Zoe Navigates Grief and Family Ties with Humor and Heart
It uses a strange but fairly effective film device to tell the story of a young Army veteran’s struggle with PTSD; My Dead Friend Zoe could be looked at as […]
Interview: Chicago-Made Filmspotting to Fulfill a 20-Year Dream With This Weekend’s Filmspotting Fest
“A force for good in the universe.” This was filmmaker Rian Johnson’s decree on Filmspotting, Chicago’s premier movie talk show of the century. Born as Cinecast in 2005, just months […]
Review: Molchat Doma’s Soaring Synths Dominate the Salt Shed
Belarusian post-punk group Molchat Doma have enjoyed one of those meteoric rises so unlikely you can’t help but poke your head in to see what the fuss is all about. […]
Review: Raven Theatre Creates a Sizzling Production of the Sam Shepard Masterwork, A Lie of the Mind
A Lie of the Mind, Sam Shepard’s 1983 play about two families and the tragedy that binds them, is a sizzling 2.5 hours of solid acting, direction and pacing. At […]
Buy Today. Boycott Tomorrow!
Tomorrow is the day you can do something to fight fascism funded by corporate greed. Don’t feed the beast. Withholding unnecessary spending is a powerful form of resistance against today’s […]
Interview: The Gorge Filmmaker Goes Long on Creating Monsters, What he Learned from James Cameron and Teases The Black Phone 2
Filmmaker Scott Derrickson is something of a oddity in the movie-making world. He doesn’t seem to make movies with the intent of earning loads of money from them. I’m sure […]
Review: Broadway in Chicago’s Clue Pays Joyful Homage to the Original Classic Film and Board Game
There have been two murders at Boddy Manor, and the stakes have never been higher. Wadsworth, Yvette, and the dinner guests are becoming increasingly terrified, and no one quite knows […]
Review: Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey Subverts Expectations and Offers Gory, Unpredictable Scares, Too
With his previous film, Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter) opted for surreal, atmospheric horror that worked surprisingly well for a lot of people, especially those who don’t see […]
Review: Panda Bear and Toro y Moi Headline a Wild and Magical Night at Salt Shed
On first glance the pairing of Noah Lennox’s Panda Bear and Chaz Bear’s Toro y Moi seems a bit dissonant. While both Lennox and Chaz have one foot deeply entrenched […]
Review: Pinter’s Triangle Gets a Brisk Portrayal in Betrayal at Goodman Theatre
A triangle has three sides. But the three sides are not always equal, as we learn in maths. Or geometry, if you’re an American. And so it is in Betrayal, the […]