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Review: Riz Ahmed Is an Unstable Father in Encounter, a Tense and Tough Family Drama

Encounter

Taking a break from playing musicians with health issues, in Encounter actor Riz Ahmed plays Malik Khan, a decorated Marine who embarks on a road trip with his two young […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 3, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Ben Falcone’s Thunder Force Only Forces Melissa McCarthy into Tired, Unfunny Gags

    Thunder Force

    Can Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone just stop working together? It’s not that their films together just aren’t very good (Superintelligence, Life of the Party, The Boss, Tammy); it’s that […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 9, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Over-Acted and Over-Produced, Remake of Roald Dahl’s The Witches Fails to Capture Any Magic

    The Witches

    The first thing you notice about the new, Robert Zemeckis-directed adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl novel The Witches is that the focus is on the children, who are very […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 21, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Pixar’s Latest, Onward Finds Adventure, Humor and Heart in a Fantasy World

    Onward

    Before I dive into the latest Pixar film, Onward, I just noticed in looking at the cast list that Julia Louis-Dreyfus voices a character named Laurel Lightfoot, which is a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 6, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Dolittle Does Very Little with Its New Take on a Children’s Classic

    The new year is young, but thank goodness we didn’t have to wait more than a couple of weeks into it to hit our first big-budget, military-grade stink-bomb of 2020. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 16, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review , Uncategorized

    Review: Octavia Spencer Has a Great Time Going Crazy in Ma

    Ma

    Producer Jason Blum and his filmmaking shingle Blumhouse have made a name for themselves in the horror movie space by consistently delivering scares to grateful audiences and box office returns […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • May 31, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review , Uncategorized

    Review: Instant Family Nicely Balances Comedy and Heart

    Instant Family

    The cynical among us (you know who you are) will view a movie like Instant Family and think it’s some sort of propaganda material, encouraging selfish would-be parents to consider […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 16, 2018
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Octavia Spencer and John Hawkes Talk Westerns and Making Small Town Crime

    One of the most intriguing and captivating films to premiere at the SXSW Film Festival last year was a little crime drama called Small Town Crime, from the writing-directing brothers […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 16, 2018
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Hidden Figures, The Untold Story of Three Black Women Who Brought NASA to Bold New Heights

    There are films that simply know how to make an audience happy, and there are those that shamelessly manipulate a crowd into trying to feel something to the point of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 24, 2016
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