Film Review: Faces Places May Just Renew Your Faith In Humanity
If you’re a film nerd like me, you follow the various film festivals during the first half of the year (Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca, Cannes) with one ear to the cinematic […]
Interview: Simon Curtis Brings A.A. Milne, Childhood and Class to the Big Screen in Goodbye Christopher Robin
The films of director Simon Curtis often skirt the line between reality and the myth of a famous person’s life. Rather than attempt to tell the story of Marilyn Monroe, […]
Specter of Housing Insecurity Exorcised in Theater Oobleck’s A Memory Palace of Fear
Rust Belt Chicago’s editor/writer Martha Bayne and artist Andrea Jablonski co-curate Theater Oobleck’s unique haunted house, tapping into fears about housing insecurity. A rainy, raw fall day was an apt […]
Game Review: Hidden Agenda– Pacing Turns a Potential Hot Pursuit into a Cold Case
Developer Supermassive Games had a hit with 2015 cinematic adventure game Until Dawn. More choose your own adventure than actual game, Until Dawn proved to be a popular game for […]
Interview: Miles Teller, Jason Hall and Adam Schumann Talk Thank You For Your Service, Bruce Springsteen and Drinking Games
This week, the film Thank You For Your Service is released in theaters. Starring Miles Teller (The Spectacular Now; War Dogs), it’s written and directed by Jason Hall, who is […]
Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 10/26 – 10/29
The time has come! It’s Halloween weekend! There are plenty of events going on where everyone will be going and dressing up in their spookiest, most referential, or inappropriate costume […]
The Underdog’s Underdogs Campaign in Jackalope’s 1980 (Or Why I Voted For John Anderson)
By Matthew Nerber, a performer and theater artist in Chicago, and a former literary contributor with the Generation, the University at Buffalo’s longest running alternative newspaper. When not seeing or […]
Game Review: The Jackbox Party Pack 4 Keeps the Party Going
Local game developer Jackbox Games (formally Jellyvision Games) has upped the ante on their fun repertoire of trivia games in recent years. Mostly known for the You Don’t Know Jack […]
Cauliflower Soup for Breakfast? Last Hurrah for Chicago’s Farmers Markets
One Day More…. This reminds me of the gorgeous song from Les Misérables–One Day More–sung on the eve of the 1832 Paris Uprising. The heroes sing of the fate that […]
Saturday Night Live: The Experience Is An Exhibit As Iconic As The Show
[soliloquy id=”19975″] Saturday Night Live is an institution. For 43 seasons, you’ve been able to tune to NBC at 10:30pm Chicago time and be in that same familiar […]
Hey! Play! Games in Modern Culture Celebrates the Art of Play
It’s Chicago Design Week, and the members of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, or AIGA, are embarking on week celebrating all things design. We were there Friday night as they kicked off […]
Game Review: Fire Emblem Warriors – Formulaic, Tedious, but Serviceable
The Nintendo Switch has finally gotten a Fire Emblem game… sort of. Well, okay, not really. Fire Emblem Warriors is actually a game in the long running Dynasty Warriors franchise, […]