Playtime Radio: We Talk Politics, Music, Photography
Here’s this week’s podcast for Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall, our radio arts partner. Third Coast Review news and reviews are highlighted and our writers sometimes appear on the […]
Review: Becoming Announces Michelle Obama as a Woman With More To Do
Earlier this year, Hulu released a four-part documentary mini-series on Hillary Clinton; the aptly titled Hillary is an up-close and personal look at the politician’s life from her childhood in suburban Park […]
Real or Virtual? We Need Live Theater but Theater on My Sofa Has a Future Too
Just before a play begins, the house lights dim and we take a collective breath of anticipation. That shared experience continues throughout the production, including laughs, groans and tears. But […]
Review: Aspiring to Greatness, Dark Comedy Arkansas Is Only A Faded Copy
If the name Clark Duke isn’t immediately recognizable, chances are the face is; now in his mid-thirties, Duke has been acting since the early 2000s. Roles in Hot Tub Time Machine, […]
Review: Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind Is the Actor’s Story From Those Who Knew Her
Not unlike actresses Marilyn Monroe and Sharon Tate, the career of Natalie Wood is too often reduced to the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death at the age of 43. But […]
Book Review: Fighting Racism with a Teacup, Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance, edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed
Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists and Intellectuals 1893–1930 Edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed University of Illinois Press, 296 pages, $28 In […]
Review: Strong Performances and a Sense of Purpose at the Center of Debut Drama Working Man
The feature debut from writer/director Robert Jury asks us to consider whether it’s a good or bad thing when your job becomes your life. And when your job is taken […]
Review: SnowRunner is a Muddy Good Time
The older I get, the more I like “slow” stuff—like TV where they’ll show nothing but a train’s journey, or wood burning. It’s not like I’ll just sit there using […]
Review: Someday You’ll Return is a Spooky Walk in the Woods
First person horror is great—nothing is more immersive than seeing through the eyes of the person who is trapped in a terrifying situation, fighting or fleeing for survival. Scarier still […]
Review: Field Report’s Brake Light Red Tide Breaks New Ground for Milwaukee’s Chris Porterfield
On “Decision Day,” the stellar opener to Field Report’s autumnal sophomore album Marigolden from 2014, Chris Porterfield, the Milwaukee-based songwriter, sings “Take your time and let the tide pull you […]
Review: Deerskin is Dark, Absurd and Funny…Until It’s Not
If you’ve heard of Quentin Dupieux, it might be in relation to one of his earlier films, Rubber. It’s the story of a tire—you know, the ones on cars—that goes […]
Review: A Speed-Read (Watch?) Through the History of Money in Capital in the 21st Century
An adaptation of Thomas Piketty’s 704-page tome on the distribution of resources over the course of history, Capital in the 21st Century isn’t exactly a reassuring chronicle of how the world’s […]