The Rembrandt slips back and forth in time from a contemporary art museum to a Renaissance-era artist’s studio, a Greek temple, and the room where an aging poet is dying. […]
CENSORED! We Read Banned Books, an ACLU benefit, will be an evening of readings by Chicago authors from their favorite banned books, sponsored by Third Coast Review and Kill Your Darlings Live Lit. Censored will […]
Yes indeed, there was a 2001 ABC movie called (spoiler alert!) When Billie Beat Bobby, starring Holly Hunter and Ron Silver as the battling tennis players Billie Jean King and Bobby […]
The two best films being released this week are based on high-profile true stories— ’70s tennis drama The Battle of the Sexes (see separate review) and the Boston Marathon bombing […]
Angela Haseltine Pozzi’s relationship with art was lifelong. She was born into a family of artists and grew up to be an art educator, with a Master’s Degree in Arts […]
La Compagnie du Hanneton’s latest show The Toad Knew packed Chicago Shakespeare’s Yard, Chicago’s brand new theater on Navy Pier. People came to see this 90-minute captivating and morose fairy […]
This mixtape was composed in tandem by Colin Smith and Emma Terhaar. Can two people work together to make one playlist? Has the broth been spoiled? Please let us know […]
Moderate spoilers follow Minecraft: Story Mode – Season Two is an episodic game with new episodes releasing monthly. Check out our review of episode 1 here and episode 2 here. […]
An independent filmmaker committed to seeing their movie get made will likely, at some point, turn to crowdfunding to make it happen. Services like Kickstarter and Indiegogo provide a platform […]
Before we get the events happening this weekend, I’d like to make a somewhat controversial recommendation. It took me about a week to settle my thoughts on the latest Darren […]
When I say this is my least favorite of the three Lego animated films, I don’t mean that as an insult; I just mean that the The LEGO Movie and […]
Kingsman: The Secret Service, the 2014 British adaptation of the Mark Millar-Dave Gibbons comic book series, felt subversive because it didn’t feel like it was trying to be subversive. The […]