Review: WTTW Launches Fifth and Final Season of Jay’s Chicago Tonight
Emmy Award-winning Chicago producer Jay Shefsky is moving from semi-retirement to full retirement, and his broadcast home, WTTW, will present…
Preview: WTTW Celebrates Mother of Invention Viola Spolin in Inventing Improv
Tonight WTTW’s Chicago Stories premiers “Inventing Improv,” a one-hour special about “Chicago’s greatest export,” improvisation, and its visionary creator,…
Preview: WTTW’s Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special Premieres May 21
Writer and producer Stacy Robinson’s documentary “Ida B. Wells: A Chicago Stories Special” offers an enlightening and engrossing hour witnessing…
Review: Documentary Duo Shift to Episodic Format for Riveting, Drama-Packed Love Fraud
The documentary-making duo Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady have consistently delivered some of the most intriguing and thought-provoking films on…
Preview: City’s Transit Lifeblood Explored in WTTW’s “Chicago by ‘L’”
Geoffrey Baer’s latest “learn about where you live” offering, “Chicago by ‘L’,” premieres Wednesday, March 4, at 7:30pm on WTTW.…
Disney+ has Disney Classics, Marvel and Star Wars, but also a Whole Heap of Obscure Nostalgia
Disney Plus finally launched today, and there’s lots of buzz about the selection of Marvel movies and shows, and the…
Smells Like Heavy Metal Poisoning: An Interview with Cinéaste Mike McPadden
Mike “McBeardo” McPadden is truth in human packaging. A beard is indeed present, bristly, with streaks of grey—suggesting wisdom in…
Review: “Game of Thrones” Series Finale Shocks, Impresses With Profoundly Sad, Immensely Satisfying Ending
Major spoilers follow. Seriously. You’ve been warned. The final episode of “Game of Thrones” begins how it should: in silence.…
Review: Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 5: Blood, Smoke, and Terror Choke King’s Landing in “The Bells”
Mild spoilers follow. A season of television beleaguered by the pressure and presumptions of millions is bound to suffer. This…
Review: Game of Thrones S8E3: “The Long Night” Is Spectacle-Driven Fun At Its Best, But Not Much Else
Mild spoilers follow. Once upon a time, Game of Thrones was more like a perversion of chess than it was an…
Review: Game of Thrones S8E2 — “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” Ranks Among the All-Time Best
Guest post by Hayden Mears. Mild spoilers ahead. As legions of wights approach Winterfell, all our heroes can do is…
Review: “Game of Thrones” Season 8, Episode 1 Gets Right To It
Guest post by Hayden Mears. Mild spoilers ahead. As it approaches its end, “Game of Thrones” is strange to behold.…
