Choose Your Own Adventure Guide to Comic-Con@Home Day 3: Friday
Well, it’s Friday! The work week may be wrapping up but Comic-Con@Home still has 2 more full days of amazing programming planned. They started us off light on Wednesday with […]
Review: Amulet Mostly Succeeds at Playing with Genre Gender Roles and Demonic Possession
Like the other horror film released this week (The Rental, reviewed here), Romola Garai’s Amulet aspires to something impressive within contemporary genre features. It is a gorgeous production (making her feature directorial […]
Review: The Rental Delivers a Few Creepy Scares from an Oceanfront Getaway
Two horror movies arrive to watch this week, and both of them feel as though they’re aiming for something grander than what the final product actually delivers. Both are by […]
Review: Based on a True Canadian Story, Most Wanted Feels Too Familiar to be Memorable
There is something so unique and special about Canadian films. I’m not talking about filmmakers or actors from Canada—we’re got plenty of those in Hollywood—or movies that are shot in […]
Review: Marie Curie’s Life in Science Is Less Than Illuminating in Radioactive
If there ever was the perfect match of filmmaker and source material, having Marjane Satrapi (who adapted and directed her own graphic novel about growing up in Iran, Persepolis) direct […]
Third Coast’s Choose Your Own Adventure Guide to Comic-Con@Home Day 2: Thursday
So, did you pull up a nice slice of couch and learn some things yesterday? We sure hope so, as the goals and messages of some of the panels we […]
Review: The Skin You Live In Is a Kids’ Book for Today by Two Chicagoans
The Skin You Live In By Michael Tyler Illustrations by David Lee Csicsko Chicago Children’s Museum The Skin You Live In, a book targeted to 4- to 8-year olds, can […]
Your #StaytheFHome Chicago Curated Weekend: 7/23 and Beyond
Chicago has been letting businesses reopen their doors for quite a while now. So if you’re going to a drive-in (like Chicago Drive In, Drive-in at Lincoln Yards Lot, ChiTown […]
Comic-Con@Home Comes to Chicago (And Everywhere Else) Starting Today!
One of summer’s most obvious absences are festivals, big and small. There’s no sprawling parks full of concert stages, no small towns bedecked with smiling strawberries leading you towards the […]
Review: Superhot: Mind Control Delete Delivers Tension and Thrilling Gameplay
How do you innovate on a game that described itself as one of the most innovative shooters in years? That’s the task developer Team Superhot faced when following up their […]
Review: Deadly Days Is a Strategic Rogue-Lite to Sink Your Teeth Into
There is a certain irony to playing Deadly Days, standing against wave after wave of zombie hordes, only to mindlessly consume hours of your own day with the proverbial, “One […]
Dialogs: Two Screenwriters Talk About Their New Novels—Utopia Avenue and Antkind
It was just serendipity that the Chicago Humanities Festival scheduled two screenwriters with hot new novels two weeks in a row for their livestream show. Well, serendipity and the fact […]