Feature // Year in Review: 2018

Illustration by Thomas Durham. The year began with The Shape of Water and ended with the cinematic debut of Aquaman while in-between was a veritable ocean of variously challenging, unconventional, intelligent and rousingly entertaining features – plus the floating turd of Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. The convergence of the global media landscape continued apace as …

Review // Widows

Academy award winning director Steve McQueen and Gone Girl writer, Gillian Flynn team up for a star studded heist film that’s a little formulaic, but takes an interesting look at U.S. politics and the social landscape of modern Chicago.  After the deaths of their husbands in a heist gone wrong, four women (Viola Davis, Michelle …