Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Parody Songs and Plenty of Heart, Laughs (and Cameos) in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

It should come as a surprise to no one that when approaching his own biopic, song-parody performer “Weird” Al Yankovic would be mostly incapable of telling his story seriously. In […]

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Film, Film & TV, Interview

Interview: Filmmaker and Actor James Morosini on Getting Weird (and Getting Patton Oswalt) for I Love My Dad

Writer/director/actor James Morosini had something happen to him when he was slightly younger, involving his father, that was so disturbing and memorable that rather than erase it from his memory, […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: The Secret Life of Pets 2 Squanders a Strong Voice Cast on an Uninspired Second Story

Secret Life of Pets 2

I’ll fully admit, I haven’t revisited or even thought about the first Secret Life of Pets film since it was released three years ago. I have a vague recollection that […]

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Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 3/1 – 3/4

New month, new curated weekend! It always feels so oddly refreshing when one of these posts starts off a month. So having it occur twice in a row this soon […]

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Game, Games & Tech, Review

Game Review: Minecraft: Story Mode- Season Two Episode 4 Continues to Tread Water

Moderate spoilers follow Minecraft: Story Mode – Seaston Two is an episodic game with new episodes releasing monthly. Check out our reviews of the previous episodes: Episode 1, Episode 2,  […]

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Game, Games & Tech, Review

Game Review: Minecraft: Story Mode – Season Two: Episode 1 is a Solid Adventure

Minor story spoilers follow: Minecraft: Story Mode – Season Two is the follow up to 2015/2016’s Minecraft: Story Mode. Developed by Telltale Games, which is a veritable factory of story-driven […]

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