Review: Film Nerds Revel in the Connection, Nostalgia of At the Video Store
This one hit me right in the heart, probably because you have to be in a particular age bracket and love movies of every size and shape to remember the […]
Review: Citizen K Traces One Man’s Rise and Fall in Putin’s Russia
Perhaps one of his more complicated and layered profile documentaries, the latest from filmmaker Alex Gibney (an Oscar winner for Tales to the Dark Side), Citizen K explores the bizarre […]
Review: Political Incorrectness Aside, The Gentlemen is a Return to Form for Ritchie
I fully admit to being a big fan of director Guy Ritchie’s first two gangster comedies—Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch—primarily because they introduced the world to the […]
Review: Females Seek Agency in Remy Bumppo’s Top Girls
Note: Top Girls was reviewed by Karin McKie and Kim Campbell on Women’s March weekend. Caryl Churchill wrote Top Girls in 1982, in the middle of Margaret Thatcher’s 1979-90 fraught, […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 1/23 – 1/26
Cold, snowy, and rainy days are ahead of us, but that shouldn’t stop you from having a great weekend. There’s so much to do in the city from concerts to […]
Chicago’s Youth Orchestra Rides Winged Creatures to Sunday’s Grammys
The GRAMMY Awards will be aired Sunday night on the CBS television network, and Chicago’s classical music fans have a major rooting interest. Winged Creatures, a locally produced album, […]
Review: Shattered Globe’s Sheepdog Tells an All-Too-Familiar Story About Police Shootings
Alton Sterling. Laquan McDonald. Walter Scott. Michael Brown. Greg Gunn. Philando Castile. Some of those names might come to mind as you watch the tense, even-handed police thriller, Sheepdog, by […]
13 Video Games We’re Looking Forward to the Most in 2020
2020 is going to be a banner year for video games. It marks the last year of the current console generation ,and anyone should know, that’s when some of […]
Review: Star Wars: Battlefront 2 Strikes Back
Without question, Star Wars: Battlefront 2 had a rough launch back in 2017. The highly anticipated title as it was at release, when we first reviewed it, was not […]
Review: Dudok Quartet Amsterdam Gave an Inspired Performance
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam returned to the Northwestern Winter Chamber Music Festival on Sunday evening with a program of music from France, with a work by the Austrian Franz Joseph Haydn […]
Review: The Gulf by About Face Theatre—Two Women Stuck in a Relationship—and a Fishing Boat
Two women on a fishing boat in the Alabama Delta. One casts and sometimes reels in…nothing. The other alternately suns, dozes and reads. It’s late afternoon on a hot, humid […]
Review: Cherry Glazerr Rocks the House at Lincoln Hall
Cherry Glazerr performed a dynamic set at the first show of their two-night performance at Lincoln Hall. Despite it being a chilly evening, the band got everyone’s blood pumping and […]