Preview: Clone Drone in the Danger Zone: A Subversive Voxel Roguelike
There are a dozen no name voxel indies on Steam today and it can be hard to parse the wheat from the chaff, so I’m here to tell you about […]
Book Review: Push Butt, Receive Bacon, Hand Dryers, by Samuel Ryde
Hand Dryers By Samuel Ryde Unicorn Publishing Group Distributed by the University of Chicago Press Books In the appropriately senseless year of 2020, Hand Dryers, by Samuel Ryde, was published. […]
Review: Chicago Shakes’ The Journey Livestreams a Visit to the Home and Mental Feats of Scott Silven
As part of their WorldStage series, Chicago Shakespeare is offering a visit with illusionist and mentalist Scott Silven from his childhood home in rural Scotland—or as he says, “in the […]
Review: NU’s Virtual Opera Orfeo, Tie-Dyed-in-the-Wool Creativity
A young student approaches Northwestern University’s arts center at the beginning of Orfeo Remote, a thoroughly modernized, virtual interpretation of the historic Claudio Monteverdi opera L’Orfeo. Finding the doors locked […]
Review: The Busiest Man in Action Movies, Liam Neeson Returns in Serviceable Border Story The Marksman
Few actors have had as many of their films come out during the last year or so as Liam Neeson. I’m guessing if there hadn’t been a pandemic, films like […]
Preview: Everspace 2 Is Set to Jump Into Early Access Soon
So I wrote about Everspace 2 during its prototype phase, way back in May of last year. What I got to play then was a solid framework for an action […]
Review: Rock ‘n Roll Dreams Come True at Joyful, if Self-Indulgent, Rock Camp
There’s nothing particularly exceptional about the filmmaking on display in Rock Camp, a new film about the long-running Rock ‘n Roll Fantasy Camp that allows aspiring musicians, die-hard fans or anyone […]
Review: Some Kind of Heaven Peeks Behind the Glossy Façade of the Country’s Biggest Retirement Community
On a recent episode of the New York Times podcast “The Daily,” the show that focuses on one timely news story each morning, reporters descended on The Villages, the massive, […]
Review: Set in March 2020, Locked Down Is Life in a Pandemic with a Witty Script
I’m sure we’ll get a slow but steady stream of films shot during the pandemic that actually embrace the visuals of the event, like Zoom calls, interiors with a small […]
Your #StaytheFHome Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/14 and Beyond
Things still aren’t fully ok in the world, even with the current administration on its way out with another impeachment under its belt. Add to that the continuing pandemic causing […]
Preview: Music Institute of Chicago to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The Music Institute of Chicago will be streaming free events this weekend to celebrate the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On the following Sunday the MIC will be […]
Review: Seeking Humanity in AI Soldiers, Outside the Wire Rarely Finds It
After spending years standing alongside a super-soldier as Falcon in a bunch of Marvel movies, it seems like Anthony Mackie wanted to play one himself in Outside the Wire, the […]