Fresh Start To Your Week: 3/26 -3/28
It’s the final week of March and it’s looking like a good one! There are so many great events waiting to make the beginning of your week special, from tons […]
Cook County Sues Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, Over Alleged Misuse of User Data
Cook County filed a lawsuit against both Facebook and Cambridge Analytica for allegedly violating fraud law in Illinois in the wake of reports that the consulting firm misused data from […]
Chicago ‘March For Our Lives’ Draws Tens of Thousands
Tens of thousands of people attended the March for Our Lives in Chicago Saturday, part of a nationwide series of rallies and marches to call attention to gun violence and […]
No-Cop-Academy Coalition Files FOIA Suit Against Mayor’s Office
A coalition of groups fighting for police accountability in Chicago will file a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s office for allegedly refusing to disclose “crucial emails […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]