I was never into monster trucks when I was a kid. But playing Monster Truck Championship late last year gave me a new enthusiasm for the big wheeled motorsport. There […]

Note: Gina Barreca, the editor of Fast Funny Women, and Chicagoan Nicole Hollander will read from the collection of 75 essays of flash nonfiction in a Zoom event at 7 […]

What if you were some sort of chosen one, a messiah sent to save an entire world from a creeping insidious doom? What if you’d only just hatched to find […]

I’m sure you’ve heard of Valheim already. This indie game, made by a five person studio, has skyrocketed in popularity in the month or so it’s been out. There have […]

In this brave new normal, ballet premieres come while you’re sitting alone on your couch, instead of in a glittering theater gathered with hundreds of other balletomanes breathlessly awaiting. Perhaps nowadays you […]

There has been a renaissance with action side scrolling games in the last five or so years with some really great titles. And who doesn’t love a good action side-scroller? […]

When COVID-19 closed taprooms and cancelled festivals, I looked for ways to still engage with Chicago’s craft beer scene. I therefore decided to finally work my way through The Complete Beer […]

I’ve been fortunate enough over the years to have interviewed Julie Delpy two times prior to last week, and all three times were in promotion of films she wrote, directed […]

There are a lot of crappy mobile games out there—those that use monetization more like a game mechanic than just as a way to sustain their studio. I never heard […]

Though it may be stating the obvious, stay with me here: filmmaking is, at its core, storytelling. Fictional or otherwise, a film is grounded in its narrative; every other creative […]

Sometimes, it’s absolutely possible to make too much movie for one subject matter. The gold standard for films about the scope and damage of the drug trade has always been […]

Writer/director Keith Thomas makes a solidly creepy feature film debut with The Vigil, set in the cloistered, insular world of Hasidic Judaism in Brooklyn. Jakov (Dave Davis) has recently left the […]