Before the Amazon Original Chemical Hearts, a cliché-ridden, mostly flat teen drama about first loves and growing up, filmmaker Richard Tanne made the lovely and underrated Southside With You, a […]
Doctors, nurses, and staff joined neighbors and elected officials at a demonstration Wednesday in Bronzeville to protest the looming closure of Mercy Hospital. “It is heartless to propose this closure […]
Two-time Academy-Award-winning documentary filmmaker Barbara Kopple (Harlan County U.S.A.; American Dream) helms Desert One, a straightforward but wholly satisfying recounting of the 1980 failed rescue attempt by U.S. Special Forces […]
Kane Repertory Theatre, of west suburban St. Charles, is running the third cycle of its New Play Lab series, featuring a work-in–progress play each week. It’s part of a workshopping […]
Shortly after the thud made by last year’s long-delayed The Current War, we get a much stronger and more nuanced take on turn-of-the-century inventors. But instead of narrowing the focus […]
Midwest Futures By Phil Christman Belt Publishing The Midwest is a deeply mysterious place to the coastal essayists, pundits, and politicians. Rarely visiting, save to write clunky closed factory and […]
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 […]
I’m a sucker for side scrolling puzzle games, especially those with enigmatic storylines, physics-based puzzles, and a protagonist that is forced to run more often than fight. Games like Inside […]
Games based on existing brands from other forms of media don’t have a good reputation. It seems even more rare that a game does something truly unique in its gameplay. […]
Well that was unpleasant. The first two names that jumped out at me when looking into the specifics of the new film starring Russell Crowe were writer Carl Ellsworth (the […]
I’ve been GMing a Star Trek Adventures campaign for over a year now. While having an epic campaign is great, sometimes you want to break the pattern with […]
If you’re a fan of video games and like feeling like you’re friends with the folks you watch on streams and listen to on podcasts, and you have yet to […]
