When the trailer for the Michael Bay-produced Songbird dropped, there was a loud chorus of “No” heard round the world. Set just a few years in the future and in […]

I’ve been playing Worms for a long time—at least since the original, with most of my playtime being with Worms 2 and Worms Armageddon. I loved the turn-based strategic gameplay, […]

With more than our own fair share of political headaches to navigate the last four years, you’d be forgiven for not following the saga around the 2017 assassination of North […]

In what may just hold the record for stage-to-screen adaptations, Ryan Murphy brings to Netflix a gaudy, busy, over-the-top film version of The Prom, the surprisingly well-received Broadway show that […]

If you have trouble figuring out the century in which Wild Mountain Thyme takes place, I don’t think you’ll be alone. The latest film from writer/director John Patrick Shanley (Joe […]

I will always give points for weird, but there’s a fine line between weird and aimless. I’ll fully admit to being a certain level of captivated by writer/director Adam Egypt […]

I’ve played a few adventure games based on literary works in my time—heck, at least one of them was this year with Metamorphosis, a first person adventure game based on […]

Things still aren’t fully ok in the world and with Chicago tightening their rules more and more with travel restrictions and being back to tier 3 mitigations; that means you […]

Dark Black by Sam Weller Hat & Beard Press One of the opening paragraphs of Sam Weller’s short story “All the Summer Before Us” is this: “We were eighteen, me […]

Director Steven Soderbergh continues to enjoy (and thrive in) his un-retirement with such works as Logan Lucky, Unsane, High Flying Bird and the rare misstep The Laundromat, last year’s ensemble […]

2020 is weird, and there’s no sense not acknowledging the differences between this and most other holiday seasons, if even just because it hasn’t really snowed here yet. But different […]

The Quest 2 continues to impress me, so much so that it’s become the virtual reality headset that I use the most. It doesn’t outperform my Valve Index, but its […]