Please enjoy Part 2 of our conversation with Chicago International Film Festival Artistic Director Mimi Plauche; read Part 1 here. So what are the films that are probably under people’s […] ...

Screenshot: Soggy Froggy Playdate Season 3 is here. And even though the console and all of its accessories are currently sold out on the Playdate store—which is a bummer; I […] ...

I’ll admit I was intrigued by the idea of a writer taking on the personality and writing style of another writer, the way a method actor might “become” the character they have been challenged to play.

In Hugo Wolf’s setting of Goethe’s poem, Prometheus has little interest in the authority of Zeus. He has made his own way, stealing fire and giving it to humanity, and now he stands before the god ...

When you break down director David Ayer’s latest, Heart of the Beast, it’s about two seasoned war veterans helping each other though post-war trauma; it just so happens that one of these former ...

I’m a bit of a sucker for simulation games. It allows me to put myself in the professional shoes of those whose jobs I’ll probably never have. I don’t think I’ll ever be a pilot, nor will I ever be a ...

It wouldn't be Riot Fest if there weren't a little bit of rain and boy oh boy was there rain on Sunday. The brunt of it occurred over night, drenching the Douglass Park grounds to the point where Riot ...

Day two of Riot Fest did its best but the threat of heavy rains and lightning forced the city to shorten the day. While the storms did eventually hit Douglass Park well into the night, it was much ...

Those timeless bits of journalist gab continue to be highlights of the century-old story, The Front Page, set in the press room of Chicago’s old Criminal Courts Building (the building still stands at ...

With the looming fear of rain coming the rest of the weekend, day one of Riot Fest stayed mostly dry for its fun opening lineup. The layout of the fest looks to its past and spreads things out a bit, ...

It's the final days of summer and that means one last big festival to take over our weekend! Riot Fest is gearing up for three jam-packed days of incredible music and likely some mud pits. As of this ...

On the rare occasions that director Paul Greengrass makes a period film (Bloody Sunday, United 93, 22 July), the “period” in question isn’t that long ago, and he makes it abundantly clear how the ...