Thanks to all of the Christmas made-for-TV movie trailers I've watched, Youtube started recommending me other Christmas movie trailers. And one of those trailers was for A Christmas Princess, a new Christmas movie that follows the classic Christmas movie plot of an ordinary woman meeting and falling in love with a prince from a vaguely British- ( Read more... )

So I was decided, on a lark, to look up "Beverly Shores" on Youtube, just to see what would come up. And I found a video by David Duenas, a college student from the neighoring Michigan City ( Read more... )

So I was scrolling through warren_ellis' latest newsletter, and, as it's often the case, I came across something that caught me eye. Well, several things. But this bit intrigued me more than others.

My friend Stoya is in this new film EDERLEZI RISING, that I'm actually finally getting to sit down and watch a screener of right now, which has reminded me that ( Read more... )

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Last Thursday, I was able to catch a screening of In Transit - the last film by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles. It follows the many passengers on board one of North America's most iconic trains - the Seattle/Portland to Chicago Empire Builder. A woman and her children heading to a reunion with her estranged family, a man heading to ( Read more... )

Ever since I started writing for Cook County Chronicle, it's been a constant exercise of "surely, they can't possibly accept that pitch?" A look at a recent Pace suburban bus service expansion? An article delving into the ins and outs of connections between suburban Metra train lines? An in-depth look into Chicago's Russian community? Surely that's ( Read more... )

So I was trying to look up I Ship It (the Icona Pop parody) on Youtube when I found something else entirely ( Read more... )

Ever since I discovered made_of_fail_pc... almost six years ago at this point, I've subscribed to a whole bunch of podcasts. Whenever I hear episodes I particularly like, I tend to plug them on Twitter. But it occurs to me that a lot of people reading this probably don't follow me on Twitter. Or see every single tweet I ever put out. So I decided to put together ( Read more... )

I knew going in that 1944, Estonia’s entry into this year’s Chicago European Union Film Festival, was going to be a difficult film.

Both in the West and in Russia, we like to think of World War II as the one “good” war, with people of the world facing off against the great, genocidal evil. Growing up, I certainly heard plenty about Russians and ( Read more... )

So, last Friday, my brother was on WGN Radio again. On the same show he was on last time - the late-night Pretty Late with Patty Vasques.

Is it going to be a regular thing? Because I'm honestly kind of hoping it would be a regular thing. Or at least a recurring thing.


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