Entertainment

AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER REVIEW Let’s get the elephant in the room out of the way really quick. The original “Avatar” from 2009 was absolutely stunning to look at, but was so derivative when...

CHILDREN'S CHRISTMAS STORIES A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you, dear children! This little volume comes to you as a holiday gift, and in its pages we have endeavored to show you that true and...

SLOW LISTENING//HOW TO SLOW DOWN ALL THE MUSIC STREAMING In September at a Goldman Sachs-sponsored technology conference in San Francisco, Warner Music Group CEO Steve Cooper made what, for many, was a...

BEST SONGS ABOUT LAS VEGAS Gambling has always been a part of human society. Evidence of gambling games can be traced all the way back to the Ancient world. Dice and games associated with gambling have been...

MOVIE REVIEW OF "THE CONTRACTOR" Chris Pine reunites with Ben Foster in their third outing together in Swedish director Tarik Saleh’s “The Contractor” (**** OUT OF ****), a sizzling but bittersweet...

MOVIE REVIEW OF THE BLACKOUT Nothing about the Netflix thriller “Blackout” (*** out of ****) from its generic title to its amnesiac hero who dodges trigger-happy hordes of gunmen after him is remotely...

CHICAGO'S ROBERT LAMM, TALKS ABOUT THEIR NEW TOUR When the great COVID-19 lockdown slammed the brakes on the entire live music industry, like every other touring act, the members of Chicago were...

MOVIE REVIEW OF THE "BANDIT'' If you crave true-life crime sagas, “Gridlocked” director Alan Ungar’s “Bandit” (*** OUT OF ****), should intrigue you. This lightweight but entertaining, action...

MOVIE REVIEW OF THE ''BEAST" An avenging lion turns into a maneater in “Contraband” director Baltasar Kormákur’s exotic animal opus “Beast” (** OUT OF ****) after African poachers armed with...

MOVIE REVIEW OF ''THERE ARE NO SAINTS" A nihilistic exercise in misogyny, sadism, murder, and revenge, Hispanic helmer Alfonso Pineda Ulloa’s unsavory actioneer “There Are No Saints” (**1/2...