This film was original reviewed as part of Third Coast’s Sundance 2021 coverage and is being reprinted now for its streaming release. On the heels of powerful COVID-centric documentaries like […]
“Nobody ever listened to me until they didn’t know who I was,” says anonymous graffiti artist Banksy. We think. That quote is included in the new The Art of Banksy […]
Check out our interview with Cosmo’s Quickstop creators Big Sir Games here. Lately I’ve been playing a lot of games like Overcooked!. You know the type: you’re given a list […]
One of my favorite Chicagoans is actor, writer and overall truly nice guy Jake Johnson, who I first met in 2009 with the release of the indie hit Paper Heart, […]
W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America—The Color Line at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Edited by Whitney Battle-Baptiste and Britt Rusert Princeton Architectural Press Black Lives 1900: […]
If you’ve ever dreamt of hobnobbing with the social elite during the early years of revolution in 18th Paris, well, that’s weirdly specific—but you’re in luck. Ambition: A Minuet in […]
It’s been a few months since my tabletop role-playing game group sat down to a session of Alien The Roleplaying Game. We were playing through the available cinematic scenarios, and […]
For the last few years I’ve really gotten into tabletop role-playing games, or TTRPGs. While there are a few players I know that approach the games like it’s a video […]
The humidity that has made this one of Chicago’s least pleasant summers lifted for last weekend. It was perfect timing for the Grant Park Music Festival‘s airy Classic Broadway, its […]
Sometimes games lose the balance between production values and good gameplay, but when a fine balance is struck, it can be serendipity. Such is the case with the beautiful Greak: […]
Ema, a film by Chilean director Pablo Larrain, is the story of an unhappy family set to the pulsing, percussive beat of reggaeton music and images of fire. But its […]
How is it possible for a music-centered biopic to feature fantastic music, heartfelt performances, and a story about triumph over trauma and still end up teaching us nothing about its […]