Preview: Mutants, Madness, Meat Piles, Death Trash
I never thought to ask the question, ”what would Fallout be like, but with more piles of meat?” But I’m sure glad someone did, because Death Trash is the answer. […]
Review: In the Same Breath Is Perhaps the Most Harrowing, Essential COVID Documentary Yet
This film was original reviewed as part of Third Coast’s Sundance 2021 coverage and is being reprinted now for its streaming release. On the heels of powerful COVID-centric documentaries like […]
Review: The Art of Banksy Exhibit Shows the Artist as Anti-Capitalist Punster and King of the Mashup
“Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was,” says anonymous graffiti artist Banksy. We think. That quote is included in the new The Art of Banksy […]
Review: Chicago-Based Big Sir Games’ Cosmo’s Quickstop Is Chaotic, Crazy Fun
Check out our interview with Cosmo’s Quickstop creators Big Sir Games here. Lately I’ve been playing a lot of games like Overcooked!. You know the type: you’re given a list […]
Interview: Chicagoan Jake Johnson on Making Ride the Eagle During the Pandemic, Without Making it Feel Like the Pandemic
One of my favorite Chicagoans is actor, writer and overall truly nice guy Jake Johnson, who I first met in 2009 with the release of the indie hit Paper Heart, […]
Review: Visualizing and Honoring Black America, the Story W.E.B. Du Bois Told at the 1900 Paris Exposition
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America—The Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert Princeton Architectural Press Black Lives 1900: […]
Review: Ambition: A Minuet in Power, a Balance of Stats
If you’ve ever dreamt of hobnobbing with the social elite during the early years of revolution in 18th Paris, well, that’s weirdly specific—but you’re in luck. Ambition: A Minuet in […]
Review: Alien The Roleplaying Game: Colonial Marines Operations Manual Is Everything you Need to Run A Sprawling Marine Campaign
It’s been a few months since my tabletop role-playing game group sat down to a session of Alien The Roleplaying Game. We were playing through the available cinematic scenarios, and […]
Review: Wildermyth Is as Close to TTRPG Storytelling You Can Get in a Video Game
For the last few years I’ve really gotten into tabletop role-playing games, or TTRPGs. While there are a few players I know that approach the games like it’s a video […]
Review: Grant Park, Classic Broadway and the Power of a Not-So-Humid Night
The humidity that has made this one of Chicago’s least pleasant summers lifted for last weekend. It was perfect timing for the Grant Park Music Festival‘s airy Classic Broadway, its […]
Review: Beautiful Greak: Memories of Azur Is Nearly Perfect, Occasionally Cumbersome
Sometimes games lose the balance between production values and good gameplay, but when a fine balance is struck, it can be serendipity. Such is the case with the beautiful Greak: […]
Review: Chilean Film Ema Tells a Fiery Family Story With a Pulsing Beat
Ema, a film by Chilean director Pablo Larrain, is the story of an unhappy family set to the pulsing, percussive beat of reggaeton music and images of fire. But its […]