The first thing you realize about the new Netflix drama The Devil All the Time is that it’s several smaller films in one, all of which eventually collide by the […]
I’m as susceptible to a halfway decent rom-com as the next human being; I’m more easily sucked in by a straight-up romantic drama, but have no objection to having a […]
In a truly unique and appropriate way to view politics of the 1970s, filmmaker Mary Wharton has made a film about the campaign and one-term presidency of Jimmy Carter that […]
It’s another great weekend in Chicago with plenty of things to do at home from a long list of amazing virtual plays to watching live streams of music and so […]
Team-ups, crossovers, and other collaborations between franchises are fun. It’s a pretty common phenomenon in fighting games, where crossover can almost be its own subgenre. It’s always fun to play […]
Summer’s fading, there’s still a pandemic out there, and if you’re like most, you’re probably wondering what you’re going to do with yourself when it’s less warm and sunny and […]
Most of my life I remember going to the local taco place, and in their dining room in a back corner, there was a Virtua Racer cabinet—or a game […]
More than half a century ago, on August 27, 1967, local residents, poets, painters, photographers and gang members gathered to dedicate the “Wall of Respect”—a mural painted on the side […]
Stop me if you’re heard this one before: Once upon a time there was a former Major League Baseball pitcher named Curt Schilling who wanted to make video games. Curt […]
I don’t want to be the one to start it, but I have a feeling that Star Renegades is going to be drawing some comparisons to Subset Games’ Into the […]
I’ve been lucky enough, since the early 1990s, to have seen every one of John Leguizamo’s one-man shows either in New York or in Chicago (where he often previews his […]
Side-scrolling co-op beat ‘em up games have been around for decades, and it’s hard to inject something new into the genre. That’s exactly what Shing! attempted though, with a control […]
