Winner of the 2025 Palme d’Or, Cannes Film Festival’s top honor, It Was Just an Accident is the latest from Iranian writer/director Jafar Panahi (who previously won the award for […]
Welcome to the sixth installment of Third Coast Review’s Featured Creatures, in which we ask Midwestern horror authors to recommend writers, artists, musicians, and stories that deserve more attention. Find […]
It’s the day before Halloween and there are so many fun events ready to make this fall weekend a blast! Take in the last few hours of Halloween goodness before […]
Horror authors are often asked where they get all their wonderful, horrible ideas, but rarely why they get them. Librarian Becky Siegel Spratford wondered about this herself. Since 2007, she’s […]
Chicago will have a new entertainment space that will enable you to “step into a new world of totally different experiences” from those you usually find in a theater or […]
Maestro Enrique Mazzola is now entering his 5th year as music director and conductor of the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Mazzola is the third music director since Bruno Bartoletti, when […]
Christina Henry’s latest release, The Place Where They Buried Your Heart, is for more than just horror fans. It’s a story of redemption. The book is a David and Goliath […]
Most Americans likely think of ginseng as an exotic ingredient, showing up on occasion in candy, tea, and energy drinks. But ginseng has (literal) roots in the United States as […]
Much like the title character of this handsome animated movie, Stitch Head has sewn together elements of Frankenstein, Pinocchio, and a Tim Burton sensibility and turned it into fairly bland […]
I’m fairly certain that the point of Anniversary, the new film from Polish-born director Jan Komasa (Good Boy), is to illustrate how even the tightest-knit family can be torn apart […]
Currently in theaters, writer-director Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You tells the story of a young mother and therapist named Linda (an edgy Rose Byrne) whose life […]
When I open a book to review it, I view it as an assignment. Read it as thoroughly as practical, and perhaps skim over some sections. But by the time […]
