Chicago Film Festival: What to See This Week
The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival is happening now (through October 26), and the Third Coast Review film team got a chance to screen many of the film selections in […]
Fresh Start To Your Week: 10/16 – 10/18
Despite the rain and flood warnings throughout Chicago this weekend, everyone still heeaded out to some amazing events and enjoyed our wonderful city. So let’s not let this drop in […]
The Skin of Our Teeth, an Apocalyptic Madhouse at Remy Bumppo
Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth is the story of the universal family, beset by war and catastrophes but enduring despite all. In a way, The Skin of Our Teeth (written […]
An Evening at the Talkhouse Is an Unnerving and Timely Must-See at A Red Orchid Theatre
A Red Orchid Theatre’s latest show An Evening at the Talkhouse is my kind of production. It’s a darkly funny one-act play running around 100 minutes. It’s funny in a […]
Book Preview: Interview with Tina Schumann
Two Countries: US Daughters & Sons of Immigrant Parents is a new anthology published by Red Hen Press. We sat down with the editor of the collection Tina Schumann to […]
Film Review: Loving Vincent is a Van Gogh Masterpiece on Screen
You often hear the claim that a film is “unlike anything you’ve seen before,” but in the case of the animated work Loving Vincent, there’s no other way to describe […]
Film Review: The Meyerowitz Stories Is Noah Baumbach at His Best
Already streaming on Netflix and now getting a limited theatrical run (in Chicago, at the Landmark Century Center Cinema) The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is the latest from writer-director […]
Film Review: The Florida Project is Vital American Filmmaking
What will undoubtedly be one of my favorite films of 2017, writer-director Sean Baker’s The Florida Project follows his previous two exercises in brash (meant in the best possible way) […]
Film Review: The Foreigner is Watchable, and That May Be Enough
In my decades of being a Jackie Chan enthusiast, I never thought I’d see him in an action-enhanced drama fighting against a terrorist group known as “The Authentic IRA.” But […]
Film Review: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Draws You Into the Story Behind the Heroine
Feel free to put your claims of opportunism aside; there’s no way the makers of the intriguing biopic Professor Marston and the Wonder Women could have possibly known that Patty […]
A Night of Electronic Excellence at Beat Kitchen with TV Girl
A line snaked out the entrance of Beat Kitchen this past weekend and I couldn’t say I was surprised. The under 21 but 17+ fans were anxiously waiting to get […]
Chicago Int’l Film Festival’s First Weekend: What to See
The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival is happening now (through October 26), and the Third Coast Review film team got a chance to screen many of the film selections in […]