Riot Fest 2018 was an oddly muted affair. No big reunions or “one time only” performances of the kind that have so…
Chicago’s weather this weekend felt like a hug from a very large, sweaty man, with rain looming over nearly every set…
Tech is playing a larger role at SXSW with every passing year, and despite the deeply irritating fact that some…
The first season of Channel Zero, Syfy’s horror anthology series, had some aesthetically cool and creepy elements—not…
A low-key indie drama about a down-on-his-luck bookie debuted at SXSW this week, and although it at first looks like it…
It was the opening night of films here at the South By Southwest Conference And Festivals, starting with a horror film…
Sundance is a snow globe: a miniature winter wonderland and self-contained cultural ecosystem, closed off from the rest…
I don’t scare easily. As much as I love horror movies, and have since I was young, they don’t usually shake me in any…
Sundance really likes to push the idea that it’s a “community”—a network of artists converging on the same Utah ski…
The midnight movie slate at Sundance is always an uneven grab bag of red-meat offerings: a festival within the…
To call Joaquin Phoenix one of our greatest living shape-shifters is to do more than acknowledge his range. It’s also a…
Most years at the Sundance Film Festival, there’s at least one title that qualifies, sight unseen, as a Very Big Deal.…
This past weekend, a few A.V. Club staffers headed to Chicago’s Douglas Park for Riot Fest, the marathon three-day…
Even when South By Southwest was solely music-focused, there was no way to catch everything of import, and as it’s…
For its 25th anniversary Lollapalooza extended its stay in Chicago’s Grant Park. Having called it home for over a…
The Pitchfork Music Festival has been holding court in Chicago’s Union Park for a decade now, and the 2016 edition saw…
With its charming buildings and diverse neighborhoods, Montreal is a lovely and unique town, a little quasi-European…
It never rained on Lollapalooza, but that didn’t stop the fest’s organizers, C3, from both evacuating the whole fest…
Trevor Noah is essentially the Barack Obama of comedy. He’s stylish, charming, and statuesque, with an impossibly broad…