Jerry and Estelle Cimino are on the road, spreading the Beat Gospel to the world. As founders of the Beat Museum in San Francisco, they’ve made a mission of keeping […]

Art is enmeshed in the politics of the Russian revolution in James Sherman’s new play, Chagall in School, now being staged by Grippo Stage Company at Theater Wit. Georgette Verdin […]

French filmmaker Mathieu Amalric is likely best known in the United States for his more than a hundred roles in front of the camera, including The Diving Bell and the […]

Full confession: the only reason I watched this movie was because I thought it was from France. Turns out, the new film from director Steven C. Miller (First Kill, Line […]

Justin Long is having a hell of a week in horror. Not only does he appear in the big release of the week, Barbarian (playing an absolute douche), he also […]

I’d estimate that of the 500-plus films I watch in a given year, it’s fairly easy to predict how 85 percent of them are going to end (or at least […]

When Timothy Samuelson stood in the center of his windowless, crowded studio, surrounded by gorgeous artifacts of the past, I thought he might break into song.  “Nothing in here doesn’t […]

Guest review by Shaela Johnston. Over Labor Day weekend I had the unique opportunity to attend the 12th anniversary North Coast Music Festival at Seek Geek Stadium. This one being […]

Irish filmmaker Mark Cousins has expanded his earlier documentary exploration of the first century of filmmaking (The Story of film: An Odyssey, 2011) with his research on the last two […]

It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes movies really depress me. I’m not talking about movies with depressing storylines of someone dying of a disease or breakup movies or any number […]

Lifeline Theatre is a mainstay of the arts scene in Rogers Park. They remain after BoHo Theatre moved to Lincoln Square, Theo Ubique moved to the Evanston side of the […]

Long about the original demo, I excitedly watched some Ooblets gameplay. Cute pastel village, dancing anthropomorphized animal/plant things, and a card battle structure vaguely reminiscent of Slay the Spire? Sounds […]