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Interview: Filmmaker Mona Fastvold on What Led Her to The Testament of Ann Lee, Casting Amanda Seyfried and Films About Furniture

In recent years, Norwegian-born filmmaker Mona Fastvold has divided her time between co-writing her own films (The Sleepwalker) as well as those directed by her partner, Brady Corbet (The Brutalist, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 19, 2026
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    Recap: Chicago Film Fest Award Winners and Films Worth Seeking Out Post-Festival

    The 61st Chicago International Film Festival wrapped up on Sunday, October 26 with a Chicago premiere screening of Eternity starring Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller and Callum Turner. Ahead of the […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • October 27, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Marvel’s Thunderbolts* Assembles a Team of Misfits for an Emotionally Driven Adventure

    Not since the original Guardians of the Galaxy movie has Marvel so successfully forged a team that worked so convincingly together and resulted in so much emotion by the end […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 2, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Riff Raff Draws on a Stacked Ensemble Cast including Ed Harris, Bill Murray and Jennifer Coolidge, for an Action Pic with Family Drama

    Filmmaker Dito Montiel has always worked on the outskirts of Hollywood yet has still found a way to pull together impressive casts for his humanistic stories, often about those living […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 26, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Elizabeth Banks Stars in Skincare, a Beauty-Industry Thriller That’s Barely Skin Deep

    Feeling more like a well-made TV movie of the week than an actual big-screen film, Skincare is the feature debut by director Austin Peters (a popular music video director, who […]

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

    Review: The Starling Girl Is an Indie Gem About Young, Confused Love that Deserves an Audience

    Movies like The Starling Girl seem to spring out of every film festival and then never really make a dent when/if they get an actual wider release in any format. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 19, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Top Gun: Maverick Features Impressive Flight Scenes But More Nostalgia Than Novelty

    I recently had a wise person tell me that nostalgia is for those who are afraid to face the present, and I tend to agree with that. By that token, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 25, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Thrill of the Hunt Missing from Prey at Night

    Prey At Night

    I’ve always been of a firm belief that horror movies should have a point, even if that point is dumb. Many of the slasher movies of the 1980s had a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 8, 2018
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