The Design Museum of Chicago is a vibrant, compact space just off the Mag Mile and is currently running the vibrant, compact exhibit Letters Beyond Form: Chicago Types through April 4. The […]
It uses a strange but fairly effective film device to tell the story of a young Army veteran’s struggle with PTSD; My Dead Friend Zoe could be looked at as […]
“A force for good in the universe.” This was filmmaker Rian Johnson’s decree on Filmspotting, Chicago’s premier movie talk show of the century. Born as Cinecast in 2005, just months […]
Belarusian post-punk group Molchat Doma have enjoyed one of those meteoric rises so unlikely you can’t help but poke your head in to see what the fuss is all about. […]
A Lie of the Mind, Sam Shepard’s 1983 play about two families and the tragedy that binds them, is a sizzling 2.5 hours of solid acting, direction and pacing. At […]
Tomorrow is the day you can do something to fight fascism funded by corporate greed. Don’t feed the beast. Withholding unnecessary spending is a powerful form of resistance against today’s […]
Filmmaker Scott Derrickson is something of a oddity in the movie-making world. He doesn’t seem to make movies with the intent of earning loads of money from them. I’m sure […]
There have been two murders at Boddy Manor, and the stakes have never been higher. Wadsworth, Yvette, and the dinner guests are becoming increasingly terrified, and no one quite knows […]
With his previous film, Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter) opted for surreal, atmospheric horror that worked surprisingly well for a lot of people, especially those who don’t see […]
On first glance the pairing of Noah Lennox’s Panda Bear and Chaz Bear’s Toro y Moi seems a bit dissonant. While both Lennox and Chaz have one foot deeply entrenched […]
A triangle has three sides. But the three sides are not always equal, as we learn in maths. Or geometry, if you’re an American. And so it is in Betrayal, the […]
About every two years or so we get something special from Soccer Mommy, the fantastic pseudonym of Sophia Regina Allison. Since her demo album For Young Hearts came out in […]