Review: Return to Grace Has a Great Premise but No Payoff
I’m a sucker for games that have the player character exploring abandoned sci-fi facilities and derelict spacecraft. I love to piece together a mystery, and Return to Grace promised a […]
Review: System Shock Is a Brilliant Remake
GLaDOS is perhaps the most famous rogue AI in video games, but long before I played Portal I was facing off against an antagonist an AI that absolutely terrifies me […]
Review: Family Comedy About My Father Works Best When It Doesn’t Try Quite So Hard to Be Funny
While the new film starring and co-written by stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, About My Father, is a decidedly average autobiographical comedy, as a story of the unbreakable bond between a […]
Review: Kandahar Is Less Action Pic, More a Statement on the Futility of War
The third film from the director-actor combo of Ric Roman Waugh and Gerard Butler (Angel Has Fallen, Greenland) is a messy, chaotic work about the messy, chaotic way that modern […]
Review: A New Perspective on Mediterranean at Ema
By Bruce Kong Mediterranean cuisine is known for countless, flavorful dishes that can be enjoyed under the hot summer sun. Fresh herbs play a primary role in Mediterranean cuisine, shunning […]
Review: In Its Latest Live-Action Adaptation, Disney Drains The Little Mermaid of All Its Magic, Charm
The 1989 animated feature film The Little Mermaid ushered in a new golden era of Disney’s storied animation legacy. A sanitized version of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fable about a […]
Review: With a Compelling Central Performance, Influencer Makes the Instagram Life a Dangerous Career Choice
In ways that probably won’t make any sense unless you actually see Influencer, the new film by director Kurtis David Harder (Spiral, Summerland) about popular social media figures has a […]
Review: Muna and Nova Twins Get All the Love From a Sold-Out Salt Shed Crowd
Right from the get-go, you can tell Muna loves their fans as much their fans love them. The band made up of Katie Gavin, Josette Maskin, and Naomi McPherson has […]
Review: Against All Odds, The Lincoln Miracle: Inside the Republican Convention That Changed History, by Edward Achorn
In a year or so, the 2024 Democratic National Convention is coming to Chicago, marking the 27th time the city has played host to one or both of the major […]
Recap: Succession (S4, Ep8) — Kendall Is Tested on a Strenuous Election Night
With how watchable, well-written, and entertaining Succession‘s characters are to watch, I find it too easy to forget that, at their core, none of them are good people (except Roman […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/25 and Beyond
It’s another fun week in Chicago and the temps are rising again (hopefully for the rest of summer)! So let’s enjoy the spring vibes with some incredible markets, movies, a […]
Feature: Socrates Found Not Guilty in the Trial of the Sesquibimillennium
The People of Athens vs. Socrates, perhaps the most famous trial in history, took place in the year 399BCE. The great philosopher Socrates was charged with impiety (failing to acknowledge […]