Plenty of movies are meant to be an escape, a fleeting couple hours’ entertainment featuring superheroes or meet-cutes or triumphant protagonist’s journeys. In the world of documentaries, escapism is hard […]
Set 20 years after the original Ridley Scott-directed Alien, Alien: Romulus centers on a much younger but no less grungy group of characters who escape their mining colony home/prison planet […]
Creating a dramatic soundscape of sadness, longing, tenderness, and joy, conductor Alasdair Neale led the Sun Valley Festival Orchestra though Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No 6, in a-minor, Tragic, before 3000 […]
There has been a lot of debate in recent years about the place of Golden Age musicals in modern theater. Rodgers and Hammerstein classics such as The King and I […]
It’s never a great sign when a film’s protagonist utters the movie’s title in a line of dialogue, however perfectly placed or delivered. Such is the case for It Ends […]
For some, the best news about the new film starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck, The Instigators, is that it’s not a sequel to their original pairing, the 2002 Gus […]
Last night was Andersonville Chamber of Commerce’s annual event, Taste of Andersonville. This year there were three route options. The Nibble route, which featured Penelope’s Vegan Taqueria, Andale Market, and […]
“This isn’t just some silly game. I’ve got no time left.” Alice (Caitlyn Cerza) is lying about with the Caterpillar (Elliott Esquivel) and Cheshire Cat (Mizha Overn). The duo convinced […]
This month’s column explores another reason Chicago’s literary scene is “lit”: the wide variety of live literature events held in neighborhoods across the city. From conversations with award-winning authors to […]
On Saturday, July 27, it was one small step for music and one giant leap for womankind, as it was my first time attending the Out of Space Festival. Everything […]
There are few films released in the last few years whose authenticity is a priority as much as director Greg Kwedar’s Sing Sing, starring Colman Domingo (Rustin) as John “Divine […]
When a British writer/director takes on the true story of an Irish rap group whose unifying theme and unlikely rise to fame centers on the preservation of the Irish Gaelic […]