Review: In Spellforce 3: Fallen God You ARE the Brute Squad
I miss real-time strategy games in the mainstream. I know they’re still around, but we haven’t had a title like Warcraft III or Starcraft in a long time—Warcraft III Remastered […]
Dialogs: Margaret Atwood Talks About Writing, Reading, Werewolves and Truth
What year were you born:? If you are lucky enough to meet Margaret Atwood, she might ask you that. Knowing when someone was born tells her what happened to them, […]
Your #StaytheFHome Chicago Curated Weekend: 11/12 and Beyond
Things still aren’t fully ok in the world and with Chicago tightening their rules more and more with travel restrictions and with a suggested stay-at-home request, that means you should […]
Review: Mank Delves into the Process, Memories and Later Years of a Classic Hollywood Screenwriter
The first thing you should do before seeing David Fincher’s Mank is re-watch (or watch for the first time, you cinema philistine) 1941’s Citizen Kane and maybe even do a little […]
Review: Freaky Reinvents the Body-Swap Comedy with a Bloody, Dark and Wicked Take
Sometimes with movies, being given what you want is preferable to being given what you need. I remain a great admirer of the Happy Death Day movies because they delivered […]
Review: Werner Herzog’s Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds Inspires with Big Questions, Grand Visuals
Whenever Werner Herzog directs and narrates a documentary that involves vast landscapes and/or ancient religions, sign me up. Co-helmed with Clive Oppenheimer, Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds involves the pair […]
Review: A Conservative’s Memoir Clashes with a Liberal’s Filmmaking in Confused, Superficially Emotional Hillbilly Elegy
I’m not here to judge the best-selling memoir of J.D. Vance or his conservative politics the way others seem to do in their reviews of the film adaptation of Hillbilly […]
Review: Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues Is a Pleasant Surprise
I think we’ve all seen a game that we immediately assumed would be trash. Movie tie-ins, shovelware, rip offs of more popular titles, anything on Steam that’s in Early Access […]
Review: Watch Dogs:Legion Is Familiarly Ubisoft with a Sprinkle of New Ideas
DedSec is back, and the team is bigger than ever. The largest selling point for Watch Dogs: Legion, the latest entry in publisher Ubisoft’s Watch Dogs series, has players swapping […]
Review: Stage Left’s The Project(s) Documents a Story of Community Found and Community Lost
The Project(s), a documentary-style theater piece that tells the story of Chicago public housing, past and present, had its world premiere in May 2015 at American Theater Company (shut down […]
Review: Strife: Veteran Edition Is a Perfect Fit for Switch
I love retro games, especially those I might have missed when I was a kid. Strife fits the bill—developed in 1996, it was released at the height of my obsession […]
Review: A Documentarian Records—and Participates in—the Twisting, Turning Story of Where She Lies
In the era of multipart docu-series, it’s nice to see a documentary film with multiple twists and turns and questions and theories all in a compact space of less than […]