It is inevitable that “Eddington” will be as polarizing as the year it takes place in: 2020. The Covid-19 pandemic, the death of George Floyd, calamitous economic disruption, mass civil rights protests...

Running is a very vulnerable act. Excluding people who run consistently or the freaks who make it their entire personality, I’m talking about your everyday person who probably doesn’t run very often....

At a packed Park West in Lincoln Park on March 20, the room positively hums. Nearly every seat is full as attendees await an unconventional act: a fully improvised musical. As Zach Reino and Jessica McKenna...

In the pilot episode of Seth Rogen’s new Apple TV+ series “The Studio,” Rogen plays the newly-appointed creative chief of the fictional Continental Pictures, who’s given a ludicrous mandate from...

I’d like to preface this review with something Belgian director Chantal Akerman once said about mainstream audiences’ responses to her avant-garde films: “When most people go to the movies, the...

There were many concerns going into Bong Joon-ho’s “Mickey 17.” His return to filmmaking after his landmark 2019 drama “Parasite” was to be a dark sci-fi comedy under Warner Brothers, an adaptation...

Moody shoegaze bands, plush monkeys strapped to remote controlled cars and countless raving college students — all of this and more invaded Chicago’s underground venues this weekend as a part of the...

There’s nothing more embarrassing than bad comedy. A horror which fails to scare its audience may at least result in a mocking enjoyment of its attempts at gravitas (see “Wish Upon.”) The same goes...

“Cash Cab” — that was the winning idea DePaul junior Elissa Bartkowski brought to her first rehearsal for the sketch comedy group Go For Broke. It came weeks after re-watching old videos of the trivia...