Review: Serviceable Humor Me Is Good for a Few Laughs
I’ll fully admit, I’ve never heard of the 2009 online series “Old Jews Telling Jokes,” but apparently it featured Jewish men and women over the age of 60 telling their […]
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.
Review: Don’t Look for Closure in Oscar-Nominated Loveless
Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev has become something of a master at conveying what many of the dark corners of Vladimir Putin’s Russia look like without saying or showing it outright. It’s […]
Review: Bruce Willis Can’t Save an Empty Death Wish
Going out on a limb here, I’m guessing this reboot of Death Wish will not play well in Chicago, where it is actually set and appears to have been mostly […]
Review: Jennifer Lawrence Delivers in Smart, Cunning Red Sparrow
Considering that Jennifer Lawrence’s history in the action genre has centered on two long-running, highly successful franchises (X-Men and The Hunger Games) built around characters whose personalities and inner workings […]
Interview: Coco‘s Anthony Gonzalez On Getting the Part, Inspiring Other Kids and the Food at Pixar
The young actor Anthony Gonzalez is a magnificent bundle of 12-year-old energy (he actually turns 13 in a couple of weeks). I can’t think of a human being more excited […]
Celebrate George Harrison and Great Music at Music Box Theatre’s Concert for George
To celebrate George Harrison’s 75th birthday (which is actually Feb. 25), select theaters across the country will screen a remastered in 5.1 Stereo Surround Sound version of Concert for George, […]
Review: Nostalgia, An Overwritten Sobfest
Pieced together like a patchwork quilt of characters and situations, Nostalgia, the latest from director Mark Pellington (The Last Word, Arlington Road), is about connections—both loose and tight—that people have […]
Review: The Party Is Pitch-Black Comedy About Class, Love and Politics
It opens with Kristin Scott Thomas pointing a gun at you, so you know the latest from Sally Potter (Orlando, The Tango Lesson, Yes), The Party, is going to be […]
Review: Game Night Takes Some Sharp Turns
Thanks to a smarter-than-expected script (from Mark Perez) and a cast of both funny people and terrific actors (not always mutually exclusive, as it turns out), the new adult comedy […]
Review: Hannah Is Both Disturbing and Fascinating
Editors Note: this is a repost of an article from Third Coast Review’s Chicago International Film Festival coverage The second feature from Italian-born director/co-writer Andrea Pallaoro (Medeas) is the French-language […]
Review: Intimacy and Vulnerability Played to Masterful Effect in Rogers Park
From Chicago-based director Kyle Henry (Fourplay) and screenwriter Carlos Treviño comes Rogers Park, a relationship drama about the two couples living in the northside Chicago neighborhood over the course of […]
Review: Captivating Annihilation Sparks Sci-Fi Movie Conversations
Here’s hoping that we have enough Star Wars and superhero movies in our yearly science-fiction regimen to satiate that base-level need, and that there’s room in our movie diets for […]