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Review: Filmmaker Bradley Cooper Gets Intimate with Is This Thing On? About Stand-Up Comedy and a Marriage at a Crossroads

With a successful acting career under his belt, including two Oscar nominations, Bradley Cooper set his sights on filmmaking—and not in a small way. Cooper launched out of the gate […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 16, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: Mid-Week at Chicago Int’l Film Festival Highlighted by Special Guests, Hidden Gems and More

    Hitting the mid-week mark, the Chicago International Film Festival boasts special guests and anticipated films on Tuesday and Wednesday, October 21 and 22; here are the highlights our film critics […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • October 21, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Adventurous Filmmaker Taika Waititi Misses the Mark in Uninspired Sports Underdog Story Next Goal Wins

    Filmmaker Taika Waititi has taken some wild swings in his career, from his vampire-centric faux documentary What We Do in the Shadows and the charming Hunt for the Wilderpeople to […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 17, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: As Origin Stories Go, Minions: The Rise of Gru Doesn’t Offer Any New Insights…or Even Much Entertainment

    Admittedly, I’ve given up on keeping track of not only the stories of the Despicable Me/Minions movies, but also how may of them there even are. I believe the latest, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 1, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Bigger Cast, A Bit Less Heart in The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part

    Lego Movie 2

    One of the most enjoyable aspects of 2014’s The Lego Movie was the big mystery behind what it was that was creating and manipulating the characters and situations. The reveal […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 8, 2019
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: The Lego Batman Movie, Is it Possible to Have Too Much of a Good Thing?

    Sitting through the high-energy, brightly colored, million-jokes-per-minute The Lego Batman Movie, I was reminded of a question that I haven’t had the opportunity to ask myself in recent months: Is […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 9, 2017
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