The Music Box Theatre hosted music royalty as part of the spring Chicago Humanities Festival: Sonic Youth’s frontwoman Kim Gordon, her co-author, music journalist Sinead Gleeson, along with feminist electronica pioneer Laurie […]
Five years (and one pandemic) after its first go-round with an all-David-Lynch, all-the-time program, Chicago’s Music Box Theatre again presents a week-long retrospective on “one of the greatest and most […]
While everything seems to be open like the old days, there is still that looming presence of the Delta variant in the background threatening all we’ve done to get back […]
As we head into our second (and far from last) official week of Illinois’s “Stay at Home” order, keeping busy and entertained remains the best way to keep the Coronavirus […]
Those with a fear of heights may want to brace themselves for The Aeronauts, the story of a scientist and a balloonist who ascend in a hot air balloon over 1860s […]
There’s something about flipping the calendar over to October that feels different from earlier months. It’s as if the space between September 30 and October 1 is a mini time […]
In a time when all the content anyone could ever desire is quite literally at our fingertips, a movie theater celebrating 90 years in business is a wonder. When that […]
In the dead of a Chicago winter, all any of us can think about is the sun and warmth of summer, all the long days and warm breezes made for […]
Returning for another year of films and events, Cinepocalypse always promises programming that scares, thrills, and satisfies the legions of ardent genre fans dying to experience it. This year won’t […]
At a typical (however one defines that) performance at Lyric Opera of Chicago, the accompanying program includes in each cast and crew bio the professional’s previous Lyric credits. The asterisks […]
Although he began in films as an actor and action star studios wanted to model after the late Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan built his popularity on a foundation of traits […]
Almost from its first frames, director Talal Derki’s (The Return to Homs) latest, Of Fathers and Sons, feels like a movie that shouldn’t exist. The filmmaker spent two years pretending to be […]