The moment I heard Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” instead of Martin O’Donnell’s iconic Halo score, I knew something wasn’t right. Gamers have been waiting for a live action […]
The Other One. The Kid. Ace. No matter the name you know him by, Bob Weir is undoubtedly a legend. He’s our beloved, Birkenstock-wearing, Crossfit-doing, guru-bearded, hippie dad who can […]
The voices! Soprano Michelle Bradley, making her Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in the title role of Giacomo Puccini’s Tosca, and tenor Russell Thomas as her doomed lover Cavaradossi filled […]
There’s just something about low fidelity horror games that scare me more often than games using cutting edge graphics. Perhaps the fuzzy, low poly graphics force my brain to fill […]
When you’re a 13-year-old girl, there’s nothing quite as dramatic—or traumatic—as being a 13-year-old girl. Hormones are raging, bodies are changing, there’s so much you don’t know about who you […]
Idle Muse Theatre takes on the difficult task of staging Shakespeare’s Pericles with excitement along with the hero’s journeys to find love and home. Upon This Shore: A Tale of […]
It’s hard to write this review. I really wanted to like Aztech Forgotten Gods: It’s got style, it’s got great ideas—and it’s developed by a Mexican indie game studio that […]
The director (Shawn Levy, Real Steel and The Night at the Museum movies) and the star (Ryan Reynolds) of last year’s smash Free Guy have re-teamed to bring us less a […]
Less a traditional science-fiction tale and more a hyper-realized exercise in exploring the outer reaches of gaslighting, Ultrasound, indie producer-turned-director Rob Schroeder’s feature debut, is a genuinely tense and freaky work […]
When your two main characters are named in the credits as Man One and Man Two, you may get a sneaking suspicion that the story you’ve just seen is something […]
Featuring films from across the European Union, the Chicago EU Film Festival continues through March 17 at the Gene Siskel Film Center on State Street. As for films to check […]
Anyone who claims to be a lover of documentaries would be a fool to miss any film narrated by the great Werner Herzog. Normally, such works are also directed by […]
