In a week front-loaded with average or subpar horror offerings, it’s nice to feel lifted by a documentary about the doughnut industry in California—something of a doughnut hotspot in America. The Donut […]
An expanded version of writer/director Jacob Chase’s effective short Larry, Come Play centers on a young autistic boy named Oliver (Azhy Robertson, who played the son in last year’s A Marriage Story) […]
Courtesy of Blumhouse, the genre production house that gives and keeps on giving, comes this sort-of sequel/reboot (press notes call it a “continuation”) of the 1996 cult favorite The Craft, which worked […]
I’m a sucker for space shoot ‘em ups—it’s cathartic to just dodge bullets and blast ships for a while. Usually, I can just turn my brain off and go along for the […]
Chicago’s four-time Grammy Award-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird unveiled their Chicago Artist Workshop virtual concerts on Tuesday evening with Rebuilding/Crossing Bridges, a concert that featured a performance by another Grammy Award winner, Lebanese-American […]
Jackbox Games has been doing sarcastic, witty nerdy things right since…well, before they were Jackbox Games. Their name at the time was Jellyvision. The year, 1995. Their hit? An acerbic trivia gameshow […]
I only recently got my hands on the Oculus Quest 2. It’s an impressive little VR headset—there’s no doubt about it. I’m impressed with how must power the Quest 2 has, […]
Tell us a bit about yourself and your writing career. It’s hard for me to believe my writing “career” has been going on now for more than three decades. My first two […]
On March 8, just a week before theater and most other live events shut down, I began a theater review this way: “What the Constitution Means to Me is partly a lesson […]
Minor spoilers for Amnesia: Rebirth follow: Developer Frictional Games has become one of my favorite developers. I first ran across Penumbra: Overture about twelve or so years ago, and I was enthralled with […]
Chicagoans may think of Nick Hornby as one of our own because of the 2000 film, High Fidelity. It’s set in a grungy record shop in Wicker Park and features many Chicago […]
The buzz on Slow Pulp reached me via friends before their traditional publicity push, and the snippets I heard excited me, but none of that could have prepared me for how excellent […]
