The sun was out and the temps were high, but that couldn’t slow down the crowds for the first day of Riot Fest. A sort of homecoming after a brief […]

This review was written by Tory Crowley. Watching All Happy Families, the latest film from co-writer/director Haroula Rose, feels comfortingly familiar. It’s set on the North side of Chicago in […]

One of the big opening night offerings at this year’s Fantastic Fest in Austin, Texas (more coverage to come from easily one of the highest-profile genre festivals in the world) […]

Snagging a Best Screenplay award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and giving Demi Moore arguably the best role of her career, The Substance hits like a hammer with its […]

I’m just the age where Transformers of any kind (the Hasbro toys, animated series, the many movies) didn’t really have much of an impact on me. As a result, familiar […]

A Different Man, the latest film from writer/director Aaron Schimberg, seems to have been created based on the filmmaker’s working relationship with one of the movie’s stars, Adam Pearson, who […]

Over a two-evening span, Dame Jane Glover and Music of the Baroque Orchestra and Chorus provided a once-in-a-lifetime musical experience. On Tuesday, with the help of soprano Joélle Harvey, tenor […]

The spectacular synth-pop duo of Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin, known as Magdalena Bay, brought the immense world of their latest record, Imaginal Disk, to a sold-out two-night run at […]

Playwright Eugene Lee’s East Texas Hot Links takes place in 1955 in the piney woods of East Texas. It was the year that Emmett Till was murdered and the Klan […]

Ah Riot Fest, you trick tricky fest. After announcing a departure from their usual location only to switch back to the Douglass Park campus, it’s finally time to rock out […]

Alternative rock band Wallows put on a vibrant and passionate set at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island over Labor day weekend in support of their latest album release Model, […]

It’s another fantastic weekend in September and there are so many unique events this weekend from great music at the always fun and often notorious Riot Fest, great movies, and […]