Review: A Family’s Reunion Turns Terrifying in Lee Cronin’s The Mummy
One of the things you should know going into Lee Cronin’s The Mummy is that it’s not really a mummy movie at all. It’s certainly not anything like the 1932 […]
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: Riz Ahmed Brings Shakespeare’s Hamlet to Modern-Day London with a Fitting Temperament and Intensity
If you know anything about me, you should know that I love live theater, and my favorite subsector of live theater is the works of William Shakespeare. But the only […]
Review: Now Streaming on Hulu, Pizza Movie Is a Drug-Infused Trip Where a Simple Delivery Becomes an Epic Journey
This is a good month for filmmakers Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney. Later this month sees the release of the terrific dark horror/comedy/love story Over Your Dead Body (an English-language […]
Review: Based on the Video Game Franchise, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie Is for SuperFans, but Few Others
If you like The Super Mario Galaxy Movie or its 2023 predecessor (The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the second-biggest film of that year, situated squarely between Barbie and Oppenheimer), then […]
Review: Time Traveling, Mafia Crime and Romantic Affairs in a Messy but Entertaining Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice
When your script is in doubt, add a time-travel plot line. That’s what it feels like writer/director BenDavid Grabinski (Happily) deduced could save his decidedly average crime comedy Mike & […]
Review: They Will Kill You Offers Familiar Horror Tropes and Mediocre Action in an All Too Common Subgenre
It’s shocking to consider that there was a time not that long ago when this film and Ready or Not 2 were coming out on the same weekend, instead of […]
Review: Alpha Follows a Teen Facing Her Fate in an Apocalyptic Alternate Timeline Featuring an Inexplicable Epidemic
Alpha (Mélissa Boros) is a troubled 13-year-old girl living with her single mother (the great Iranian-French actress Golshifteh Farahani, Paterson) in coastal France as the earth is dealing with multiple […]
Review: In The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist, Filmmakers Grapple with the Good, Bad and Possible in the Realm of AI
The subject of AI-driven technology means different things to different people; in fact, some people label something AI when it actually isn’t, meaning that there are also various levels of […]
Interview: Lionel Boyce Talks Project Hail Mary, Filming The Bear in Chicago and Chasing Fear in His Next Roles
Actor Lionel Boyce is likely best known by most Chicagoans as the kind-hearted pastry chef Marcus Brooks on the series The Bear, for which he received an Emmy nomination in […]
Review: Rose Byrne Stars in Tow, a Deeply Human Story of a Woman and Her Car
Based on the true story of a year in the life of Amanda Ogle (played ferociously by recent Oscar-nominee Rose Byrne), Tow tells the story of the Seattle woman living […]
Review: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come Spills a Lot of Blood But Skips the Horror
Picking things up mere seconds after Ready or Not, returning writer/directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (once collectively known as Radio Silence) waste no time getting right back into the […]
Review: In Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling Plays the Sole Survivor on a Mission to Save the Sun
Based on the wildly popular 2021 novel by Andy Weir (The Martian) and adapted by master genre storyteller Drew Godard (also The Martian, as well as The Cabin in the […]