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Review: King on Screen Explores the Good, Bad and Scary Film Adaptations of Prolific Author Stephen King

Actor-turned-director Daphné Baiwir (2021’s The Rebellious Olivia de Havilland) clearly has a great affection for author Stephen King, but her latest documentary, King on Screen—as you might have guessed—is more […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 11, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Adapting a Video Game, a Charmless Uncharted Barely Holds Up as a Movie

    I have some very pointed questions to ask devoted players of video games who actually look forward to the occasional film adaptations of those games. And while these are serious […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 17, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Spider-Man: No Way Home Is Just Nostalgic and New Enough to be a Great Addition to the Superhero’s Canon

    Spider-Man: No Way Home

    In my comic book reading patterns, Spider-Man was always my guy. Not because of his cool powers or even the similarities in our ages when I was reading his adventures. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 17, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: After Production Delays, Chaos Walking Begins a Sci-Fi Trilogy that May Not Be Worth Finishing

    Chaos Walking

    One of the things I intensely dislike about the art of watching films in this century is how much it’s possible to know about a film before seeing an actual […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 5, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Tom Holland Faces PTSD, Addiction and More in Cherry, a Film With More Story than Character

    Cherry

    It’s especially ambitious of the Russo Brothers (Anthony and Joe, who made the last two Captain America and Avengers movies) to follow up literally the biggest movies ever made with […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 26, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: The Devil All the Time Filmmaker Antonio Campos on Adapting a Book Without Losing the Author and Robert Pattinson’s Journey to That Accent

    For several years, writer/director Antonio Campos was part of a loose collective of filmmakers (that also included Sean Durkin, maker of this week’s The Nest, and James White director Josh […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 20, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Devil All the Time Sees Deeply Southern Storylines Converge in Bursts of Brutality

    Devil All the Time

    The first thing you realize about the new Netflix drama The Devil All the Time is that it’s several smaller films in one, all of which eventually collide by the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 11, 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

    Review: Animated Spies in Disguise Could Use a Dose of Danger

    Spies in Disguise

    Well, this animated action-adventure featuring the vocal stylings of Will Smith and Tom Holland doesn’t have a particularly memorable or impressive look or story, but it has a great personality. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 24, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Flickers of Interesting Moments in Re-cut The Current War

    The Current War

    On the surface, it would make sense that premier inventor Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and industrialist George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) should have spent some part of their careers working together—creating […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 26, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV

    Review: Spider-Man: Far From Home is a Fitting, Fantastic Epilogue

    Spider-Man Far From Home

    Before we dive into this (and as if you don’t already know), it’s rather imperative that you see Avengers: Endgame before even thinking about stepping foot into a theater for […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 1, 2019
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