Easy targets for cheap shots are plentiful, but honestly, this is fine. It’s inoffensive Christmas movie shenanigans, and it’s breezy at 80 minutes.
Author Archives: Jonah Nink
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Punks love waffles
Punks love waffles, and Andy King has proof. At the release show for Cut Your Losses’ self-titled debut Reflections of Ghosts at Schubas Tavern this past spring, local podcast producer and DIY chef King only had a few minutes to talk with acoustic punk artist Joe Costa, professionally known as Tourist Season, and rising punk […]
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‘That’s movie magic to me’
Neal O’Bryan founded Workshed Animation, which specializes in stop-motion horror shorts and features, with longtime collaborator and childhood friend Chad Thurman in 2019.
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The Harper Theater is putting up a fight
It’s an impressive venue, but can it survive the COVID-19 fallout and seismic shifts in movie-viewing preferences?
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Review: Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves
The Chris Pine-led adaption of the pen-and-paper fantasy progenitor is a joke-a-minute campaign of quips, jabs, and cheeky one-liners.
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Getting sober and drawing rabbits
“Since I was a little kid, I’ve been drawing rabbits,” said Whitney Wasson. The Chicago-based comics artist and comedian said that rabbits are cute and easy to draw, which were two ideal qualities for their early childhood doodles. “[The drawing] could be terrible, but as long as you [make] long rabbit ears it reads as […]
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Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
Del Toro saddles up with stop-motion animation legend Mark Gustafson to present some of the year’s most stunning visuals but also goes a step further by adding some weighty thoughts on war, death, and family to the beloved Carlo Collodi fairy tale.
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Indie rock, immortalized
Local Band is a feature film about a fictional band that, like their real-life Chicago counterparts, still give it their all despite feeling doomed to fall through the cracks.