Review: The Story Continues As the Scares Fade in It Chapter Two
In many ways, it’s remarkable that you can make what is effectively a single story, told in two parts, with the same creative team throughout, and still come up with […]
Steve Prokopy is chief film critic for the Chicago-based arts outlet Third Coast Review. For nearly 20 years, he was the Chicago editor for Ain’t It Cool News, where he contributed film reviews and filmmaker/actor interviews under the name “Capone.” Currently, he’s a frequent contributor at /Film (SlashFilm.com) and Backstory Magazine. He is also the public relations director for Chicago's independently owned Music Box Theatre, and holds the position of Vice President for the Chicago Film Critics Association. In addition, he is a programmer for the Chicago Critics Film Festival, which has been one of the city's most anticipated festivals since 2013.
Interview: Brittany Runs a Marathon Star and Filmmaker on Transformation, Storytelling and the Anti-Sidekick
One of the most talked about movies out of the Sundance Film Festival this year was the self-improvement, body-positive comedy Brittany Runs a Marathon, featuring the very funny Jillian Bell […]
Review: Playing with Time, Passably, in Don’t Let Go
Movies that play around with time, time travel or our ability to change the past are a sticky situation at best. There’s one school of thought (namely the Back to […]
Review: Love, Antosha Chronicles a Life Fully Lived, Lost Too Soon
Twice in 2011, I was fortunate enough to have met actor Anton Yelchin, and I can vouch for the fact that he could talk your ear off about all manner […]
Review: How Chicago and France Made Bessie Coleman, First Black Aviatrix
From director Olivier Sarrazin, this French production about the first African-American woman to receive a pilot’s license (although she had to go all the way to France to make it […]
Review: The Peanut Butter Falcon Celebrates An Unlikely Friendship Via Memorable Performances
It could have gone so wrong, but the feature writing/directing debut from Michael Schwartz and Tyler Nilson got to me hard, right in the heart. Although not your typical tearjerker, […]
Review: Murderous Comedy Ready or Not Makes Bloody Work of Family Games
So much of what makes the new horror comedy Ready or Not so effective is that it doesn’t feel like it takes place in the real world, even when blood […]
Review: One Child Nation Reveals the Personal Toll of China’s Devastating Population Policy
Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, One Child Nation doesn’t just tackle the seemingly endless and nefarious ways in which the […]
Review: Self-Involved Where’d You Go, Bernadette Squanders a Stacked Cast
There are moments in this adaptation of Maria Semple’s much-loved, quite successful novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette that I absolutely loathed, and part of the reason I felt this way […]
Review: Blinded by the Light Revels in Youth, Dreams and Springsteen
Causing a sizable splash at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the latest work from filmmaker Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham, Bride and Prejudice, Viceroy’s House) is not a film […]
Review: Middle School Mayhem—and Hormones—in an Entertaining Good Boys
Charm will always win out over crass, so imagine combining these two noble traits into one genuinely heartfelt, R-rated comedy about three sixth graders who set out on an epic […]
Interview: Multi-hyphenate Eugenio Derbez on Voice Acting, Filming in Australia and a Grown Up Dora the Explorer
Two years ago, when I interviewed Eugenio Derbez, the Mexican-born superstar, a comedic actor-director-producer, I predicted that he would be well known far beyond the Spanish-speaking following that made his […]