Review: Titan Quest Legendary Edition Packs All That Hack and Slash onto Android
Titan Quest has always had a special place in my heart. It came at the exact perfect moment that I was craving more Diablo II style action roleplaying, and it […]
Preview: Postal 4: No Regerts Is Irreverent, Violent, Janky
Ah, Postal. Some would argue that it’s one of the original controversial games, especially in the open world. In fact, it released only a month or so after the original […]
Review:Nuts: A Surveillance Mystery Suffers From Pacing Issues but Is Otherwise Successful on Switch
Originally released on Apple Arcade back in 2020, Nuts: A Surveillance Mystery is now being released on the Nintendo Switch. Nuts presents a walking simulator premise with light puzzle solving […]
Essay: Streaming Theater in the Age of Covid — and Beyond
By guest author W.C. Turck On Sunday, February 21, from 1-3pm CST, Kerri Kendall and Bill Turck will hold a radio roundtable on streaming theater one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
Review: Astrologaster‘s Shakespearean Pop-Up Book Story Pushes The Medium Forward
Popular PC/mobile game Astrologaster recently made a journey to Nintendo Switch, and as it turns out it’s right at home there. Developed by Nyamyam games back in 2019, now you […]
Review: Ike Holter’s I Hate It Here Is a Cathartic, Kinetic and Emotionally Gripping Audio Play
Review by Brooks Whitlock Chicago-based playwright Ike Holter is assuredly keyed into, like so much else in his captivating bibliography, the moods that defined the previous calendar year. Exhibit A: […]
Review: Missed Connections Is Virtual Magic and Mind-Bending Tricks With a Few New Friends
Missed Connections, Jon Tai’s magic and mystery show, is a cozy hour of entertainment laced with his stories of, yes, actual missed connections. Tai and his co-creator, Alex Gruhin, offer […]
Review: A Flimsy Script Hinders a Beautifully Filmed, Acted Land
It’s rare that I wish a film were longer than its economic 84-minute run-time, but such is the case for Robin Wright’s directorial debut, Land. From a script by Jesse […]
Review: Lapsis Builds an Interesting Alternate Reality, but Lacks a Unique Perspective
It’s not easy to create a believable alternate reality in contemporary independent films; particularly if the world of the film deals with technology, the sheer volume of details to consider […]
Review: A Film Bursting with Love, Warmth and Sheer American Perseverance, Minari Approaches Sublime Perfection
Every now and then, a film approaches such sublime perfection that subsequent viewings only strengthen one’s warm impression of the work. Lee Isaac Chung’s touching and deeply relatable Minari is such […]
Review: Caught in a Time Loop, The Map of Tiny Perfect Things Asks Us to Appreciate the Little Moments
Added to the list of recent movies about adventures in time-looping is the latest from director Ian Samuels (Sierra Burgess Is a Loser) and writer Lev Grossman (based on his […]
Review: Barb and Star Go To Vista Del Mar Is a Ridiculous—and Ridiculously Funny—Trip
As I giggled my way through Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar, the Bridesmaids follow-up by co-writers Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig (who also star), I realized that it […]