Before the Amazon Original Chemical Hearts, a cliché-ridden, mostly flat teen drama about first loves and growing up, filmmaker Richard Tanne made the lovely and underrated Southside With You, a film adaptation […]
When it comes to Russian horror films, I don’t exactly have a deep expertise. Thankfully, such a viewing history isn’t required to get a thrill out of Sputnik, the latest from IFC […]
Sometimes, having its heart in the right place is enough to make a good movie just a little bit more endearing. Case in point: the new World War II-era drama Summerland about […]
Valentine by Elizabeth Wetmore Harper, 306 pages, $26.99 Elizabeth Wetmore’s Valentine, set in 1976 rural West Texas, is a novel of relentless and brutally raw outrage. A fury-filled howl of women caught […]
Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond of Lakefront Luxury By Neil Harris with Teri J. Edelstein University of Chicago Press, 364 pages, $85 Reading Neil Harris’s Chicago Apartments: A Century and Beyond […]
Well, we’re here. It might be cooler than it is out in California where one particular convention center would normally be packed to the brim with fans of all number of nerdy […]
Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay By Erik S. Gellman University of Chicago Press In Troublemakers: Chicago Freedom Struggles through the Lens of Art Shay, historian Erik S. […]
As premises go, The Tobacconist has an interesting one: a young man moves to Vienna to apprentice in a tobacco shop, only to become friendly with one of the store’s regular customers, […]
It’s 4th of July weekend and while tons of locations are open with limited service, we need to remember to continue being safe this weekend and beyond. So if you’re going out […]
If you check out Beats this weekend, the latest from Scottish filmmaker Brian Welsh (from a play by Kieran Hurley, who co-wrote the script), it will help greatly if you’re a fan […]
Chicago native Anthony McGill will be offering a livestream performance of works by Florence Price, Leonard Bernstein, and Carlos Guastavino this Friday evening, June 26. McGill grew up in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood […]
Guest Author: This article was written by guest contributor Andrew Struska The majority of shooters on the market fail to turn my crank. Highly competitive, fast-pacing, genre-veteran player bases and persistent toxicity […]
