Preview: Mythgard: Gods Duke it Out in this Collectible Card Game

Did you ever read/watch American Gods and want to have a game set in that world? Do you like Magic: The Gathering, but wished it were a little faster paced […]

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Review: The Sojourn Provides Challenging Puzzles in Radiant Environments

I love puzzle games—they’re like the distillation of game mechanics, eschewing most of the fat and filler of other games. It’s just you, playing against the various challenges. The proper […]

Antal Bokor /

Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 9/19 – 9/22

This is looking like one of the more fun weekends of the year with tons of fantastic events. There are markets, literary and cultural discussions, concerts, beer, and art all […]

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Ad Astra

Review: Brad Pitt at His Best in a Visually Stunning Ad Astra

It’s a helluva year to be Brad Pitt. He’ll go a couple years sometimes without making a movie, and then spring to life as he has this year with the […]

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Downton Abbey

Review: Familiar Faces—and That Familiar Charm—Return in Downton Abbey

Editor’s Note: minor spoilers for the “Downton Abbey” television series follow, in order to relate the new film to the narrative’s larger arc. As difficult as it is to imagine […]

Steve Prokopy /

Review: In Artistic Home’s Vanya on the Plains, a Futuristic Society Gains Chekhovian Eloquence

Vanya in the Plains is a memory play, laden with strangeness. People living together, never leaving their house, desperately trying to make connections, virtual and otherwise. Set in the Future, the […]

Nancy S Bishop /

TCR Mixtape #40: Springsteen at 70, Music Curated by Three Longtime Chicago Fans

Bruce Springsteen’s legions of fans worldwide don’t need a reason to play his music. We listen to it every day. At home, while walking, driving, biking or breathing.  But his […]

Nancy S Bishop /

Riot Fest 2019: Day 3 in Review

There’s a noticeably chiller vibe when I show up to Douglas Park for day 3 of Riot Fest 2019. If Friday was like the final moments of the last day […]

Matthew Nerber /

Review: Dashboard Confessional Gave Reggie’s Their Best Chicago Set

I’ve been a Dashboard Confessional fan since I was 12, listening to their albums in my room as a moody teenager, door shut, scribbling their sad girl lyrics onto notebooks […]

Sarah Brooks /
Be Here Now

Review: Despite Potential, Be Here Now Never Manages to Spark Inspiration

There’s a thoughtful core to Deborah Zoe Laufer’s Be Here Now, the story of a bitter, cynical woman afflicted with headaches and seizures that leave her seeing the world as one […]

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Review: Five Presidents, a Great Premise Brought Down by Stilted Acting

It was a historic occasion when George H. W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton all came together for Richard “Tricky Dick” Nixon’s 1994 funeral. We’ll […]

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Review: Blair Witch is Tedious and Not Scary

When The Blair Witch Project came out in 1999 it was a phenomenon, spawning a huge cut following and practically inventing a new type of horror film—the found footage horror. […]

Antal Bokor /