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Interview: Filmmaker Mark Anthony Green on Writing What You Know, Creating a Movie Cult and Underestimating Black Women to Our Peril

Opus is the story of a young writer named Ariel (Ayo Edebiri), who works at a music publication but is largely considered the most junior staffer at the magazine. She […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 20, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: White Elephant Is Not a Good Movie, But a Stacked Cast Makes it Watchable

    In all likelihood, you haven’t seen any of director/co-writer and prolific action filmmaker Jesse V. Johnson’s movies. But with a surprisingly solid cast, his latest work, White Elephant, might change […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 3, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Action Star Michael Jai White on Choreographing Fights in The Commando, His Blaxploitation Trilogy Plans and Filming During the Pandemic

    The Commando

    For the better part of 30 years, actor Michael Jai White has been someone I’ve admired for being one of the few action stars who also can go toe-to-toe with […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 13, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Martha Plimpton on Making Mass, the Rhythm of the Script, and Midwestern Pragmatism

    Mass

    We continue a series of interviews for one of the most talked about films of this year’s Sundance Film Festival: the writing/directing debut of actor Fran Kranz, Mass.  The film thoughtfully […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 2, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Mank Delves into the Process, Memories and Later Years of a Classic Hollywood Screenwriter

    Mank

    The first thing you should do before seeing David Fincher’s Mank is re-watch (or watch for the first time, you cinema philistine) 1941’s Citizen Kane and maybe even do a little […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 11, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Aspiring to Greatness, Dark Comedy Arkansas Is Only A Faded Copy

    Arkansas

    If the name Clark Duke isn’t immediately recognizable, chances are the face is; now in his mid-thirties, Duke has been acting since the early 2000s. Roles in Hot Tub Time Machine, […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • May 5, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Mile 22 Moves Fast, Sets Up a Sequel…And Not Much Else

    mile 22

    Marking the fourth—and perhaps most bizarre—collaboration between actor Mark Wahlberg and director (and occasional actor) Peter Berg, Mile 22 seems like a standard-issue action piece, with Wahlberg’s CIA operative James […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 16, 2018
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