New Douglas, Illinois, doesn’t sound like a place where a lot of noise is made. It sounds like the setting out of a John Hughes film. The town’s population in […]

  Sunday was Day Four of Wizard World Chicago, one of the largest cons in Wizard World’s portfolio. As we arrived to the con, we noticed crowds were much thicker […]

  Wizard World Chicago has come and gone for another year. We had a great time every day of the con, and are looking forward to all the fun ahead […]

Before the show even started, the atmosphere at Schubas felt different. A pretty large contingent of fans had arrived early; squeezed up tightly against the stage and each other, occupying […]

  We can hardly believe we made it through Day 3 of Wizard World. Between the chaos of the crowds a and the full schedule of celebrity panels, if you wanted to […]

By Nancy S Bishop with contributions by Marielle Shaw (MS) and Cynthia Kallile (CK).. All photos by Nancy S Bishop.  It’s late summer and the best season for eating. Corn, […]

While Friday is the second day of Wizard World Chicago, it’s also the first full day.  Cosplayers and pop culture lovers had a glorious seven hours to roam the floor, […]

This is not so much a review as a reminder that James Cameron’s 1991 Terminator 2: Judgment Day is still one of the most perfectly paced and high-energy action films […]

This French production from co-directors Éric Summer and Éric Warin (the latter of whom was in the art department on The Triplets of Belleville) has been dubbed in English and […]

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy by developer Naughty Dog was originally announced as a sort of story DLC for last year’s amazing Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. While a bit shorter […]

What has become one of my favorite repertory film festivals in Chicago begins tonight, Aug. 25 to Thursday, Aug. 31 “Noir City: Chicago—The Big Knockover” returns to the Music Box […]

The ideas that feed into director Michael Almereyda’s screen adaptation of the much-celebrated, Jordan Harrison-written play Marjorie Prime are quite extraordinary, even if the execution of the movie is flawed […]