Ah, Doom.  It’s a game series that popularized, and basically invented the first person shooter genre. When 2016’s Doom came along, I wasn’t sure if it was a reboot of […]

Polish filmmaker Malgorzata Szumowska’s dramatic feature In the Name Of… won the award for Best Feature Film at 2013’s Berlin Film Festival and received a sufficiently warm welcome when it […]

Though he’s been a productive filmmaker for the last twenty years or so, I wasn’t familiar with writer/director Corneliu Porumboiu’s work until The Whistlers, a heist film that manages to entertain […]

Quite often, documentaries built around political themes have a long list of grievances but not a lot when it comes to solutions to the multitude problems being presented. The compelling […]

Almost Love, the feature directorial debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Mike Doyle is an often playful but sometimes overly serious look at the shelf life of even the best of relationships. We […]

Cathy gave me a haircut today on the back porch. In our 37 years of marriage, that hasn’t happened before, but we’re not leaving the house for haircuts or much […]

It’s a new month and our social distancing and stay at home ordinance goes on. But just because we’re stuck at home doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun! There […]

Many very good and even great books have been written about Chicago, and, based on my half century of writing about the city, here are the 10 that, at the […]

It’s a joining of artists that simply makes sense. In a delightful surprise amid a world-wide pandemic, Classixx released a new song this past week, “One More Song,” featuring German-band Roosevelt, […]

  If you’re wanting to experience art and culture during this “shelter in place” period, now is the time to check out some of the best online museum collections from […]

Illinois officials announced Monday the state now has more than 5,000 cases of COVID-19 spread across 52 counties, which includes 73 deaths. Governor JB Pritzker announced that before the end […]

I used to abhor water levels in video games. It started with Super Mario Bros., and the  dodging of bloopers partnered with the slow, floaty movements. But games like Soma […]