Republican gubernatorial challenger Jeanne Ives launched a transphobic, xenophobic, and anti-choice ad over the weekend which depicts actors “thanking” opponent Governor Bruce Rauner for legislation that “pays for abortions,” makes […]
An outright Nazi is poised to become the Republican nominee in the primary election for the seat to represent the 3rd Illinois Congressional District. Arthur Jones, a Holocaust denying anti-Semite […]
[soliloquy id=”23326″] All photos by Elif Geris/Third Coast Review Kimbra’s entrance stage right at Concord Music Hall Saturday was dominant. React Presents brings another dynamite act to one of Chicago’s […]
The blind date actually took place on November 19, 1985, in Geneva. Nothing much happened diplomatically; the world order wasn’t changed. But the two leaders of the U.S. and the […]
Some may argue that video games don’t have a place amongst world famous works of art, but on Thursday night at the Art Institute we got to experience just that […]
When the The Last Jedi was announced at the end of 2016, I thought I was pretty much done with Star Wars. I liked The Force Awakens well enough, but […]
After premiering at the Dubai Film Festival at the end of 2015, this beautifully animated work (Dubai’s first animated feature) about a slave who becomes a mighty warrior over a […]
Chicago-based Music Box Films has a knack for cherry-picking impressive independent, foreign fare that’s earned acclaim on the international festival circuit and bringing it to discerning American audiences. It worked […]
A seemingly small but heated exchange of words sets off a powder keg of protests, media frenzy and hate speech in this incendiary, Oscar-nominated (for Best Foreign Language Film, from […]
The 70th Tony Awards, presented in June 2016, were an affair to remember in more ways than one. It was the year Hamilton won big. It was the year Cynthia […]
The 28th Annual Festival of Films from Iran takes place at the Gene Siskel Film Center; it starts tomorrow and screenings continue throughout the month of February. As expected, the […]
In 1981, Stephen Sondheim and Harold Prince collaborated with writer George Furth for a new musical based on a 1934 play, Merrily We Roll Along. The show was to be […]
