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Review: Earth Mama Follows a Young Mother Determined to Do Right by Her Kids, Even When It’s Hard

Although many of the details are different, writer/director Savanah Leaf’s directorial feature debut portrait of Black motherhood, Earth Mama, feels like it’s cut from the same layered cloth as A.V. Rockwell’s […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 20, 2023
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    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 7/20 and Beyond

    We’re right smack dab in the middle of summer and the events just keep rolling in! From markets to concerts, movies to festivals, and so much more, it’s another weekend […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • July 20, 2023
    • Music , Reviews

    Review: Le Tigre and Man on Man Throw a Much Needed Party at The Salt Shed

    It may have only been three months ago that Kathleen Hanna was in town at the Salt Shed completely blowing everyone away with Bikini Kill, but those three months felt […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • July 20, 2023
    • Festivals , Music , Previews , Uncategorized

    Who We’re Excited to See at Pitchfork Music Festival 2023!

    You know your in for a treat when the Pitchfork Music Festival makes its way back to Union Park. You’ll get the chance to see some of the best acts […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • July 20, 2023
    • Film & TV , Review , Television

    Recap: The Idol (S1, Ep3) — Abysmal Episode Showcases the Worst the Series Could Possibly Be

    I’ve been going pretty easy on The Idol when compared to a lot of the other criticisms of it. People really hate this show, don’t they? I don’t really blame […]

  • Sam Layton
  • July 19, 2023
    • Film & TV , Review , Television

    Recap: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia (S16, Ep3) — The Gang Deals With Curses on a Banal Episode

    I was hopeful after the pretty solid season premiere of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia—it wasn’t perfect, but it was better than almost everything Always Sunny has put out over […]

  • Sam Layton
  • July 19, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: New Documentary Joke Man Chronicles Comic Jackie Martling from Stand-Up to The Howard Stern Show

    As someone who has been listening on and off to various incarnations of The Howard Stern Show since Stern was a local DJ in Washington, D.C. in the very early […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 19, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Christopher Nolan Gets Personal, Emotional and Political in a Sprawling, Engrossing Oppenheimer

    Although it sometimes feels like we’re watching a history textbook or a lengthy biography, writer/director Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a sprawling, visually engrossing cinematic lesson in technology, innovation, American hubris, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 19, 2023
    • Festivals , Music , Previews

    TCR Mixtape No. 43: Pitchfork Music Festival 2023

    It’s that time of year again where we cross our fingers and hope rain won’t put a damper on this weekend’s Pitchfork Music Festival! Once again the magnificent celebration of […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • July 18, 2023
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    Review: Bursting with Color, Wit and Just a Bit Too Much Plot, Filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Gives the Doll Depth

    Filmmaker Greta Gerwig is three for three. Her first film as director, Lady Bird, was a funny-because-it’s-true romp through teenage-dom, the epitome of an indie darling when it was released […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • July 18, 2023
    • Features , Stages , Theater

    Review: Northlight Brings the Soul and Brilliance of Musical Icons in Marie and Rosetta

    Imagine in your mind Jimi Hendrix’s Purple Haze with the opening chords howling out of his Fender Stratocaster. Feel that rolling left hand or bass line in the music of […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • July 17, 2023
    • Music

    Review: Protomartyr Reach a New Peak at Thalia Hall

    Celebrating the release of their sixth album Formal Growth In The Desert, Detroit greats Protomartyr capped off an extensive North American tour at Thalia Hall on Thursday night. The band […]

  • Patrick Daul
  • July 17, 2023
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