Keep The Change

Review: Charming Romcom Keep The Change Does the Genre Good

Despite its formulaic nature, making a decent romcom isn’t easy to do. It’s the reason films like When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle remain mainstays, classics of happily […]

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Flower

Review: Coming of Age with a Twist in Flower

One of the things I noticed immediately when scanning the credits for director/co-writer Max Winkler’s (Ceremony) latest work, Flower, is that it’s executive produced by David Gordon Green, Jody Hill, […]

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Review: The Fragility, Beauty of an Artist’s Process in Leaning Into the Wind

In 2001, filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer released the well-received and hugely successful Rivers and Tides, his first collaboration with Andy Goldsworthy, an artist best known for not only using objects in […]

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Unsane

Review: Claire Foy is Remarkable in Jittery, Tense Unsane

Almost as soon as we meet Sawyer Valentini (Claire Foy, best know for her role as Queen Elizabeth in Netflix’s “The Crown”), we notice things about her. She’s a hard […]

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Pacific Rim Uprising

Review: The Missed Opportunity of Pacific Rim Uprising

Something I noticed almost immediately about the five-years-in-the-making sequel to Guillermo del Toro’s Pacific Rim is how much of the film takes places during the daylight, with the sun shining […]

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Chicago March For Our Lives Expected To Draw Thousands To Union Park

Millions of people nationwide will take part in the March For Our Lives Saturday morning, a massive series of demonstrations to spread awareness about gun violence and call for stricter […]

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Review: Roguelike Shooter Synthetik Delivers Robot Carnage

Back in 1982, Larry DeMar and Eugene Jarvis made a game called Robotron, a coin-op arcade game where the player zaps endless waves of machines bent on the annihilation of mankind. […]

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EU Film Festival: Week 3 Preview

Time is running out to catch some of the best European films of the year at Gene Siskel Film Center’s EU Film Festival. Now entering its third week (out of […]

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Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 3/22 – 3/25

It’s another weekend so that mean tons of events to keep you busy! Whether you’re looking for concerts, conversations, comedy, competitions, or tattoos, we have you covered. Don’t miss out […]

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Election Primary Winners Waste No Time Campaigning For The November General

Gubernatorial contenders billionaire JB Pritzker and incumbent billionaire Bruce Rauner didn’t waste any time after Tuesday’s primary election to begin campaigning and attacking each other.  Already, ads from both campaigns […]

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Chicago’s Population Drops For Third Year In A Row

For the third year in a row, the Chicago metropolitan area has seen a population drop. Chicago and the suburbs dropped from 9,546,326 in 2016 to 9,533,040 in 2017, according […]

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McCarthy Finally Formally Announces Mayoral Bid

After months of speculation and playing coy about whether or not he’ll run, former Chicago Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy made his official announcement to run for mayor on Wednesday. “Between […]

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