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Review: Teatro Vista’s Both Grapples With Twin Realities, Twin Fantasies

by Susan Lieberman
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Review: In Michael Jackson Biopic, Michael Gets a Highlight Reel, Audiences Get the Greatest Hits, But No One Gets the Full Truth

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Review: All is Not What it Seems in Normal, the Latest Action Flick from Writer of John Wick

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Interview: Normal Action Star Bob Odenkirk and Screenwriter Derek Kolstad on Being Underestimated, Staging Great Kills and Chicago Ties

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Review: Darkest Dungeon II Is More of What You Love, but Also Less

Darkest Dungeon was a darling when it was released seven years ago. Darkest Dungeon wasn’t unique, but it excelled in creating its sense of grim dread and kept me pushing […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • May 13, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Gritty and Intense Detail, BlackBerry Recounts the Shady Story of the First Smartphone

    If Ben Affleck’s Air is the feel-good product origin story of the year (and it is), Matt Johnson’s BlackBerry is its dark counterpart, a cautionary tale about ambition, technology and toxic […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • May 12, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: For Jennifer Lopez, The Mother Is Another Forgettable Mid-Level Action Flick

    From director Niki Caro (Whale Rider, North Country, the live-action Mulan—all better movies than this one) comes The Mother, the story of a deadly, nameless female assassin (Jennifer Lopez) whom […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 12, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Book Club: The Next Chapter, Legendary Actors are Reduced to Bad Jokes and a Pointless Plot

    It’s almost impossible to fathom that the original Book Club was released in 2018. How the world has changed since those more innocent times when four female best friends of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 12, 2023
    • Classical , Music , Reviews

    Review: Picosa Offers Quintets of Strings and Air

    With the addition of a violinist and violist, members of the Picosa ensemble presented Strings and Air, an evening of flute and clarinet quintets at DePaul’s Allen Auditorium on Tuesday […]

  • Louis Harris
  • May 12, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: Stage Adaptation of Spirited Away Brings a Fan Favorite to Life with Innovative Effects and Puppetry

    This article was written by Sarah Luyengi. It was 2002 and I was about 10 years-old when I asked my older brother if he could rent this new movie called […]

  • Sarah Luyengi
  • May 12, 2023
    • Music , Previews

    Preview: Farewell Captain Emerges With Amends

    While many bands saw themselves stalled during the pandemic, others took the forced downtime to finish up a long-in-the-works album, and I am very happy to share that Farewell Captain […]

  • Jim Kopeny / Tankboy
  • May 12, 2023
    • Children's theater , Stages , Theater

    Review: Alice Austen’s World Premiere Brings Ancient Greece to Milwaukee in The Gracious Sisters

    Wisconsin is in a whirl of new plays and musicals this spring, thanks to a statewide effort called World Premiere Wisconsin. Milwaukee’s First Stage, one of the nation’s leading children’s […]

  • Anne Siegel
  • May 12, 2023
    • Beyond , Event , Event , Feature , Games & Tech

    Review: The Eight Best Things We Saw at LudoNarraCon 2023

    There’s the gaming world you know and the gaming world you don’t. Even if you don’t classify yourself as a “gamer,” simply put, you probably are. Whether it’s quick mobile […]

  • Marielle Bokor
  • May 11, 2023
    • Front page

    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 5/11 and Beyond

    After a warm start to the week, we’re back to the middling temps this weekend. Luckily there’s plenty of amazing events to take your mind off the cooler spring atmosphere. […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • May 11, 2023
    • Film & TV , Review , Television

    Recap: Love & Death (S1, Ep4) — The Aftermath of Candy’s Crime Makes for a Mild Thrill

    From the moment Betty Gore (Lily Rabe) picked up the axe at the end of last week’s Love & Death, she was going to die. When stories about real deaths […]

  • Sam Layton
  • May 10, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Television

    Recap: White House Plumbers (S1, Ep1) — Series Premiere Introduces the Idiots Behind Infamous Political Burglary

    The thing about governments that’s easy to forget is that they’re made up of people. It’s possible to think of them as nebulous shadow organizations that control everything and everyone, […]

  • Sam Layton
  • May 10, 2023
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