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Reminder: VOTE PLEASE

Yes, you do have to vote in the 2026 midterm elections

The Scariest Queer Icon

How the Babadook stepped out of the closet and into the queer spotlight

Fake Blood, Puppets, and Trash

6 charmingly bad films for your Halloween watchlist

ACME vs. REVOLUTION

What a Coyote can teach us about resilience under oppression 

From Phone Screen to Big Screen

Why YouTubers are beating Hollywood in horror

Fish & Gin

A personal essay about childhood

Darlings

Two epistolary prose poems

Loving the Monster: ‘Resident Evil’ Resurrected

Beloved horror video game franchise finally succeeds on the silver screen

Queer Horrors

‘There is still time’ to see all of Jane Schoenbrun’s films before they come to the Gene Siskel 

Irene Adler, Lost in Translation

How Sherlock Holmes adaptations fail women

Cassatt x Miller

2 boundary breaking female artists, 2 very different exhibits

Darger’s Paper Trail

A review of the Intuit Art Museum’s new paper craft exhibition

Bruce LaBruce Takes Risks

A conversation with an innovator of queercore cinema

A different kind of Magnificent Mile

A comprehensive guide to galleries on (and around) Chicago Avenue