Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/16 – 5/19
It feels like we just sped past spring and are diving right into summer! It’s the middle of May and there is plenty waiting for you in Chicago to discover so why […]
Now You Can Support Third Coast Review on Patreon
For the first time in the two-year history of Third Coast Review, we’re asking for your help. We’re inviting our readers to help our website grow into a dynamic news source for […]
Review: Killing Game at Red Orchid Is Thrilling, Creative … and Bizarre
Eugene Ionesco’s Killing Game is a thrilling and creative piece of staging and performance at A Red Orchid Theatre. Directed by Dado and featuring 13 formidable actors playing 108 parts, Killing Game takes on issues […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival Brings One Solid Week of Films to Music Box Theatre
On Friday, a week of films kicks off at Music Box Theatre that could only have been curated by people who know a thing or two about what they’re doing. Such is […]
Review: All Creatures Here Below Explores a Tragic, Captivating Relationship
I can absolutely understand people not responding well to the second feature from the writing/directing team of David Dastmalchian and Collin Schiffi, who last made the bleak and haunting Animals, which tracked […]
Review: A Gripping True-Life Crime Drama in Trial By Fire
In a time when some of the most compellingly filmed dramas are found on television or some streaming service or another, it felt like a bit of an adjustment watching a gripping […]
Review: Life Struggles and New Romance is Just OK in The Sun is Also a Star
I genuinely love a good, grown-up romance film. I’m not talking about rom-coms, and you damn well better know the difference. But lately most of the attempts at genuine, heartfelt, on-screen romance […]
Review: Not Much Develops in Photograph
The best moment in The Lunchbox, the insanely underrated 2013 film by Ritesh Batra about a homemaker whose warm lunches end up getting delivered to a stranger, is the ending. While I […]
Review: Crowd-Pleasing The Biggest Little Farm Comes With a Universal Message of Perseverance
In a world where success can seem like it’s one well-received Instagram post away, being reminded of the thankless hours, the countless fails and the unrelenting hard work it is to build […]
Review: Spanning Tragedy, Comedy and Several Years, The Winter’s Tale Proves to be Enduring Shakespeare
You read Romeo & Juliet in high school. You saw Much Ado About Nothing one summer at the park. Even if you’ve never seen (or read) them, cultural references to Hamlet, Macbeth and Othello are so […]
Review: Days Gone is a Long, Slow Burn That is Surprisingly Good
Very minor story spoilers follow: When I first saw the announcement for Days Gone at last year’s E3, I immediately thought, “why do we need this game?” I mean, it’s an […]
Review: The World of Assassins Grows Larger, More Intriguing in John Wick: Chapter 3
The world of John Wick is getting bigger. Maybe not for him, but certainly for the audience members who have stuck with this series of stunt-heavy, extremely violent films about a super-assassin […]
Review: Gloom Is in Bloom at Lincoln Hall – TR/ST with Lydia Ainsworth
On Friday night I found myself in the hands of chaos. I was at home only 15 minutes before jumping into an Uber and heading to Schubas to see TR/ST and Lydia […]
