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Review: In Michael Jackson Biopic, Michael Gets a Highlight Reel and Audiences get the Greatest Hits but No One gets the Full Truth

by Steve Prokopy
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Review: The Elgin Master Chorale and Director/Conductor Andrew Lewis Produce a Masterful Performance of Stacy Garrop’s Terra Nostra in Elgin

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Review: All is Not What it Seems in Normal, the Latest Action Flick from Writer of John Wick

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Interview: Normal Action Star Bob Odenkirk and Screenwriter Derek Kolstad on Being Underestimated, Staging Great Kills and Chicago Ties

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Review: At Chicago Children’s Theatre, Goodnight, Moon Has a Talented Cast in Constant Motion and Merriment

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Review: Call of the Sea Has Phenomenal Graphics, Somewhat Easy Puzzles

I’m usually the first to say that puzzle games are completely dependent on the person playing them. Some people can get through a puzzle game in half the time it […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • December 29, 2020
    • Features , Previews

    Old Joy Shares the Gift of Music with Monks Aflame

    There is something special about sharing music with music lovers, friends, family, and fellow fans. In a way, sharing music in a world where we feel so distant from one […]

  • Michael Kocourek
  • December 28, 2020
  • Promising Young Woman
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Promising Young Woman Channels Fury and Frustration into a Bold and Sharp Revenge Thriller

    This time last year, I was writing about the film that ultimately landed at the top of my Best Films of 2019 list: Greta Gerwig’s Little Women. In Gerwig’s capable […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 24, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Without Much to Motivate It or Inspire Us, Wonder Woman 1984 Ultimately Disappoints

    There are so many reasons the long-awaited sequel to the groundbreaking Wonder Woman is genuinely bad that I need to start by simply listing them: writing, editing, acting, directing, logic, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 24, 2020
  • One Night in Miami
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: One Night in Miami Follows the Conversations, Hopes and Frustrations of Four Great Men

    The part that we know is fact is that in February 1964, shortly after underdog Cassius Clay defeated heavyweight champion Sonny Liston in Miami (considered one of the greatest upsets […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 23, 2020
  • News of the World
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: News of the World Stars Tom Hanks in a Story of Finding One’s Way Home

    Set five years after the conclusion of the Civil War, News of the World (based on the Paulette Jiles novel) tracks the very particular journey of Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 23, 2020
  • The Midnight Sky
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: As Filmmaker and Star, George Clooney Creates a Universe in Peril in The Midnight Sky

    Marking his seventh feature as a director, George Clooney enters what I would consider his first foray into genre filmmaking with The Midnight Sky, based on author Lily Brooks-Dalton’s Good […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 23, 2020
  • Sylvie's Love
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Sylvie’s Love Is an Epic Mid-Century Love Story Just Shy of Something Magical

    Written and directed by Eugene Ashe (Homecoming), Sylvie’s Love is beautifully realized mid-century drama about star-crossed lovers in New York City whose destinies are as intertwined as they are seemingly divergent. […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 23, 2020
  • Soul
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Pixar Brings Characteristic Wit, Wisdom to Warmhearted, Tender Soul

    It’s fair to say that the cinema experience is richer, more impressive, more memorable when it takes place in an actual movie theater (as opposed to from one’s couch), something […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 23, 2020
  • Dear Santa
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmaker Dana Nachman on Filming Pre-COVID and Editing During a Pandemic, Tugging at Heartstrings and Not Ruining Christmas

    For a little more than 10 years, documentary filmmaker Dana Nachman has been making some of the most emotionally resonant works out there, films that very often illustrate just how […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 22, 2020
    • Feature , Stages , Theater

    Essay: Revisiting Stoppard’s Magnificent The Coast of Utopia on Its 14th Anniversary

    This week I had a chance to revisit the most spectacular theater experience I’ve ever had. It took place on a weekend in February 2007. Over the course of two […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • December 21, 2020
  • Mayor
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Mayor Explores the Unique Frustrations, Rewards and Absurdities of Public Service

    Just north of Jerusalem in the West Bank is Ramallah, a city of just over 35,000 people and a predominantly Christian community in the middle of disputed Palestinian territory. The […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 20, 2020
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