Review: Wanderer Is a Time Travelling Escape Room
I think the promise of virtual reality games hasn’t quite panned out, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t some gems worth playing through. Personally, I love escape room style games […]
Review: Breakout: Recharged Is a Reimagining of an Essential Classic
You might not know it, but Breakout is a pretty big deal. Originally created by Atari founder Nolan Bushnell along with Steve Wozniak (yeah, that Steve Wozniak) and Steve Bristow, […]
Review: West Side Story at Marriott Lincolnshire Features a Formidable Cast and a Few Missteps
I love a good evening out at the Marriott Theatre in Lincolnshire. For years now, they’ve put on top notch shows that aren’t just good ‘for the suburbs,’ but are […]
Preview: Super Dungeon Maker Is a Cute Zelda-Like That Lets you Make Your Own Dungeons
After spending hours with Super Mario Maker and its Nintendo Switch Sequel, I was hoping we’d get spin-offs for other Nintendo games, like a Metroid Maker or Legend of Zelda […]
Review: Mediocre at Best, I Want You Back Finds Laughs with the Help of Two Charming Leads
In these modern times, it is notoriously difficult to make a quality romcom (ahem, Marry Me). Relationships begin and end with little more than a swipe these days, and in […]
Review: Your Mama Didn’t Tell You to See Porchlight’s Blues in the Night, But We Did
Felicia P. Fields alone is worth a ticket to Porchlight Music Theatre’s production of Blues in the Night at the Ruth Page Center for the Arts. And that is not meant […]
Retrospective: A History That Leaves a Lot Unsaid, City of the Century By Donald L. Miller
City of the Century: The Epic of Chicago and the Making of America By Donald L. Miller Simon & Shuster For a quarter of a century, I’ve used Donald L. […]
Review: King of Fighters XV Features Rollback Netcode, Lackluster Fighting
The King of Fighters series has been around for a long time, with its first game releasing all the way back in 1994. With this as its 15th main game […]
Review: Chicago’s Lost Boys: Mother Chicago, by Martin Billheimer
Mother Chicago: Truant Dreams and Specters Over the Gilded Age By Martin Billheimer Feral House Chicago is a dark place. All cities are. The more humans you pack into a […]
Review: Marry Me Proposes a RomCom With Plenty of Product Placement but Zero Chemistry
Sometimes film reviews are hard to write. Especially, at least for me, reviews for films I don’t have strong feelings about one way or another. Finding ways to say, “Meh, […]
Review: The Conductor Chronicles One Woman’s History-Making Career in Classical Music
Every year, a couple dozen of our country’s best and brightest are recognized as MacArthur Fellows; colloquially, it’s known as the “Genius Grant,” a no-strings-attached gift of $625,000 (raised in […]
Review: The Worst Person in the World Is the Best Grown-up Coming-of-Age Dramedy of the Year
Is it possible to make a coming-of-age film about a grown woman? Norwegian filmmaker Joachim Trier (Oslo, August 31; Thelma) achieves just that in The Worst Person in the World, a beautifully […]