While we may have a 5 phase plan for opening Illinois, we’re pretty far from normalcy. And with so many fun festival being canceled for the year, (like Pitchfork Music […]

I’ve had quite a back log. COVID-19 may have slowed down a lot of other industries, but video games are still releasing, mostly unaffected. I’m working through my backlog, because […]

Contributing author: Marielle Bokor Some of my favorite video game experiences have been in co-op games.  Playing with friends and overcoming challenges and obstacles is extremely satisfying, and it has […]

  Doom Eternal came out just over a month ago, and it’s already at a twenty five percent discount across all platforms for the week. Now is a great time […]

Here’s this week’s podcast for Playtime with Bill Turck and Kerri Kendall, our radio arts partner. Third Coast Review news and reviews are highlighted and our writers sometimes appear on the […]

Earlier this year, Hulu released a four-part documentary mini-series on Hillary Clinton; the aptly titled Hillary is an up-close and personal look at the politician’s life from her childhood in suburban Park […]

Just before a play begins, the house lights dim and we take a collective breath of anticipation. That shared experience continues throughout the production, including laughs, groans and tears. But […]

If the name Clark Duke isn’t immediately recognizable, chances are the face is; now in his mid-thirties, Duke has been acting since the early 2000s. Roles in Hot Tub Time Machine, […]

Not unlike actresses Marilyn Monroe and Sharon Tate, the career of Natalie Wood is too often reduced to the mysterious circumstances surrounding her death at the age of 43. But […]

Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance: New Negro Writers, Artists and Intellectuals 1893–1930 Edited by Richard A. Courage and Christopher Robert Reed University of Illinois Press, 296 pages, $28 In […]

The feature debut from writer/director Robert Jury asks us to consider whether it’s a good or bad thing when your job becomes your life. And when your job is taken […]

The older I get, the more I like “slow” stuff—like TV where they’ll show nothing but a train’s journey, or wood burning. It’s not like I’ll just sit there using […]