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Review: Ewan McGregor Stars as a Son Losing His Grip on Reality in Mother, Couch, an Odd, Confusing Family Drama

This is a goofy-ass movie, where making sense is perhaps the third most important thing to writer/director Niclas Larsson, making his feature debut with Mother, Couch. The premise is simple […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 11, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Father and Daughter Journey Toward Reconciliation (and Rehab) in Bleeding Love

    Family drama is rarely depicted on screen with quite such bite as Bleeding Love, which casts real-life father and daughter Ewan McGregor and Clara McGregor playing an estranged father and […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 16, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio Features Stunning Animation, Plenty of Humanity and Just a Bit of Terror

    If you had told me earlier this year that I would see a film version of Pinocchio that featured a cameo by Mussolini, I probably would have guessed that filmmaker […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 7, 2022
    • Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Duke Chronicles the True, Very British Story of Art Thievery as Civil Protest

    Jim Broadbent in The Duke

    Back in the 1990s, I had a soft spot for British films in which the townspeople all rallied around some cause and simply got things done though sheer will power […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 29, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Birds of Prey Wants You To Think It’s Edgier Than It Is

    Birds of Prey

    This is a film that wants so desperately for us to believe it’s edgy and twisted that it forgets to actually be edgy and twisted. This is not to say […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 7, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Decades Later, Doctor Sleep—a Sequel to The Shining—Delivers a Tense Psychic Thriller

    Doctor Sleep

    A huge portion of this film cannot and should not be discussed in any review, but I’m guessing it will be, and in large quantities. I’m also guessing that different […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 7, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Christopher Robin May Not Be Essential Viewing, But There’s a Heart To It

    Christopher Robin

    Unlike last year’s Goodbye Christopher Robin, which was an account of the circumstances that led to A.A. Milne creating the Winnie-the-Pooh character, this week’s Christopher Robin is a fictional story […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 3, 2018
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: T2 Trainspotting, A Curious and Desperate Journey

    I’d certainly be within my rights to get long winded about the way director Danny Boyle uses clips from the original, 20-year-old Trainspotting to provide contrast between the drugged-out characters […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 24, 2017
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