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“The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play,” said the late Austrian composer Richard Strauss. And the beauty of classical […]

Nature is healing. Summer is in full swing, and Lollapalooza is behind us. Fan Expo kicked off our summer convention circuit, and we, the nerds, will be returning to the […]

Fully admitting that I have no prior exposure to stand-up comic Jo Koy, I walked into what I believe is his feature debut in a starring role, Easter Sunday, a […]

What I thought was going to strictly be a loving documentary tribute to the beloved Father of Claymation, Will Vinton (head of Will Vinton Studios), Claydream turned into something both […]

The idea behind the Predator prequel is so simple and so perfect, I’m actually genuinely glad that someone took the time to get it right before they tried filming it. […]

Summer is still going strong as a new month rolls in! There are tons of really fun events for everyone to do this weekend. It’s feeling a little more normal […]

Chicago is young. Compared with the large cities of Africa, Asia, and Europe—hell, compared with the Native American metropolis that occupied the Cahokia Mounds—Chicago is a mere toddler of 189 […]

Writer/director Lena Dunham burst onto the independent film scene in 2010 with her feature film debut Tiny Furniture, a film that evoked an entire generation’s sense of stasis, an inability to […]

Did you ever have a friend who took one semester of Intro to Psychology and immediately started analyzing themselves and your lives like they wrote the damn textbook? So, that’s […]

After hoisting herself up as the new queen of angsty acting (with such films as Christine and The Night House) and equally impressive writing/directing (last year’s Sundance offering Passing) Rebecca Hall returns to hold […]

In her previous documentary, The Seer and the Unseen, director Sara Dosa adopted an almost magical-realism-like approach to telling the real-life story of an Icelandic woman who spoke on behalf […]

By guest author Aviv Hart Attempting to categorize British rock band IDLES into a genre is an exercise in semantics. Punk rock? Post-punk? No-wave? Noise rock? Take your pick, it […]