Review: Raw and Emotional Hedwig and the Angry Inch at Haven Chicago
This is a love letter. To Stephen Trask’s brilliant music and lyrics and John Cameron Mitchell’s searing wit. To one of the best musicals to ever come out of New […]
Review: Ewan McGregor Stars as a Son Losing His Grip on Reality in Mother, Couch, an Odd, Confusing Family Drama
This is a goofy-ass movie, where making sense is perhaps the third most important thing to writer/director Niclas Larsson, making his feature debut with Mother, Couch. The premise is simple […]
Review: Fly Me to the Moon Stars Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson in NASA Moon Landing as America’s Marketing Campaign
Blending comedy, drama and a touch of historical fiction, director Greg Berlanti (Love, Simon and the showrunner of the CW’s Arrow-verse) sends us skyward with Fly Me to the Moon, […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 7/11 and Beyond
We’re in the middle of July, arguably the most summery of the summer months, and after that big bout of rain we’re in for some hot and humid days! There […]
Local Movie Theater Owners Develop ‘Drive-Ins Near Me’ Website, Launch with Prize Giveaway
The Midway Drive-In of Sterling, Ill., one of 12 permanently constructed movie drive-ins in Illinois, and its owners/operators, Mike and Mia Kerz, recognize that their business is part of a […]
Review: Goodman Theatre’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil Needs Pruning
The new and eagerly awaited production of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil at Goodman Theatre fails to present a unified story and collapses under its own weight […]
Review: June Zero Offers Nuanced, Thoughtful Answers to Difficult Questions and Complicated Histories
Set in 1961 Israel—specifically when the verdict and sentencing of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the chief architect of the Holocaust, was announced—June Zero offers three different perspectives of the […]
Review: Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person Is Part Teen Coming-of-Age Drama, Part Vampire Lore
Sometimes when you can’t watch a French movie, a French-Canadian movie works just as nicely. Case in point: this sweet dark comedy about a “teen” vampire (she’s actually 68) named […]
Review: Kill Is a Thrilling, Impressive Action Movie on a Train, Not Your Typical Bollywood Fare
Shorter than most films we see from India (by about an hour), the blood-soaked actioner Kill concerns two army commandos taking time off after a big mission. One of them, […]
Review: Eddie Murphy Heads Back to California in Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F, a Nostalgia-Heavy Cop Comedy
I sometimes feel guilty about coming down on a film that hits all the nostalgia buttons and makes people feel good about the things they enjoyed growing up. But with […]
Review: Ti West Concludes Horror Trilogy with MaXXXine, an Ensemble Piece Led by Mia Goth
Rounding out his horror trilogy, writer/director/editor Ti West (X, Pearl) brings us MaXXXine, following up on the adventures of adult film star Maxine Minx (Mia Goth) six years after that […]
Review: Grant Park Orchestra Continues to Delight With Contemporary Works and a Tchaikovsky Classic
Returning to Jay Pritzker Pavilion from a weekend next door at Harris Theater, on Wednesday evening Ludovic Morlot led the Grant Park Orchestra in a delightful follow-up to last week’s […]