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Review: A Goat with a Dream Leads Animated Sports Flick GOAT, About Animals Talking, Balling and Chasing Dreams

Marking the feature film debut from director Tyree Dillihay (who helmed many episodes of Bob’s Burgers over the years) and co-director Adam Rosette, GOAT is the animated coming-of-age story of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 13, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: Two Horror Films and a Haunting Drama as Sundance Film Festival Continues

    Enjoy our latest dispatch from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival… Buddy What begins as a fairly generic but quite authentic kids television show circa 1999 (a la Barney, with a […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • January 26, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: Sundance Film Festival Kicks Off Final Event in Park City; Third Coast Review Is On the Scene (and at the Movies)

    Third Coast Review film critics Steve Prokopy and Lisa Trifone are attending the 2026 Sundance Film Festival (which moves to Boulder, Colorado, next year), sharing their brief takes on festival […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • January 24, 2026
    • Comedy , Interviews , Stages

    Interview: Comedian Gary Gulman Brings Grandiloquent to the Athenaeum

    When comedy legend Patton Oswalt appeared on the Good One podcast in 2018, he spotlighted Gary Gulman’s “state abbreviations” routine as a “killer” bit he wished he’d written himself. A […]

  • Anthony Cusumano
  • September 16, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire Brings Levity and a Real Villain to Latest Haunted New York Adventure

    Certainly better than the deadly serious Ghostbusters: Afterlife, this fifth chapter in the horror-comedy franchise features more of what a Ghostbusters movie should include, such as laughs, action, an actual […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 22, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Parody Songs and Plenty of Heart, Laughs (and Cameos) in Weird: The Al Yankovic Story

    It should come as a surprise to no one that when approaching his own biopic, song-parody performer “Weird” Al Yankovic would be mostly incapable of telling his story seriously. In […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 4, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmaker and Actor James Morosini on Getting Weird (and Getting Patton Oswalt) for I Love My Dad

    Writer/director/actor James Morosini had something happen to him when he was slightly younger, involving his father, that was so disturbing and memorable that rather than erase it from his memory, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 15, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Secret Life of Pets 2 Squanders a Strong Voice Cast on an Uninspired Second Story

    Secret Life of Pets 2

    I’ll fully admit, I haven’t revisited or even thought about the first Secret Life of Pets film since it was released three years ago. I have a vague recollection that […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 7, 2019
    • Front page

    Your Chicago Curated Weekend: 3/1 – 3/4

    New month, new curated weekend! It always feels so oddly refreshing when one of these posts starts off a month. So having it occur twice in a row this soon […]

  • Julian Ramirez
  • March 1, 2018
    • Game , Games & Tech , Review

    Game Review: Minecraft: Story Mode- Season Two Episode 4 Continues to Tread Water

    Moderate spoilers follow Minecraft: Story Mode – Seaston Two is an episodic game with new episodes releasing monthly. Check out our reviews of the previous episodes: Episode 1, Episode 2,  […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • November 8, 2017
    • Game , Games & Tech , Review

    Game Review: Minecraft: Story Mode – Season Two: Episode 1 is a Solid Adventure

    Minor story spoilers follow: Minecraft: Story Mode – Season Two is the follow up to 2015/2016’s Minecraft: Story Mode. Developed by Telltale Games, which is a veritable factory of story-driven […]

  • Antal Bokor
  • July 14, 2017
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