Steve Prokopy is chief film critic for the Chicago-based arts outlet Third Coast Review. For nearly 20 years, he was the Chicago editor for Ain’t It Cool News, where he contributed film reviews and filmmaker/actor interviews under the name “Capone.” Currently, he’s a frequent contributor at /Film (SlashFilm.com) and Backstory Magazine. He is also the public relations director for Chicago's independently owned Music Box Theatre, and holds the position of Vice President for the Chicago Film Critics Association. In addition, he is a programmer for the Chicago Critics Film Festival, which has been one of the city's most anticipated festivals since 2013.
At the age of 78, writer/director Paul Schrader is on a bit of a run with films like First Reformed, The Card Counter, Master Gardener, and now Oh, Canada (based […]
Beyond having read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings trilogy, I don’t know much about the stories of what came before or after J.R.R. Tolkien’s most famous works. […]
If the rumors are true (and maybe they aren’t even rumors at this point) and Sony is truly done making these nonsense, periphery Spider-Man-universe films (minus actual appearances from Spider-Man), […]
Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel has delivered a fairly eclectic range of films in his relatively short time as a director, beginning with 2011’s ultra-violent but critically acclaimed Snowtown. He followed […]
During his nearly 10 years as a cast member on Saturday Night Live, Kyle Mooney dipped his toe into filmmaking as the co-screenwriter on the well-received 2017 film Brigsby Bear, […]
Directed by first-time filmmaker and veteran editor William Goldenberg (Zero Dark Thirty, Air, an Oscar winner for Argo, Heat), Unstoppable is the story of real-life wrestler Anthony Robles (played by […]
Naturally, it takes an Australian director and a cast led by mostly non-American actors to hold a mirror to a part of recent U.S. history that has alarming ties to […]
The writings of William S. Burroughs were never about plot; instead, they were more thought-driven, confessional exercises about the inner workings of addiction, with such works as Junkie and Naked […]
In the new comedy from first-time director/co-writer/co-star and SNL alum Kyle Mooney (who co-wrote the impressive Brigsby Bear in 2017), the collective anxiety surrounding potential disasters occurring as 1999 became […]
Now in theaters, Moana 2 is the long-awaited sequel to the 2016 original story set in ancient Polynesia, in which a terrible curse incurred by the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) […]
Director David Tedeschi has been working with Martin Scorsese for a number of years, most notably as editor on Scorsese’s faux Bob Dylan documentary Rolling Thunder Revue. The two also […]
When you notice that a film is directed by David Gordon Green, you honestly don’t know what you’re going to get. The filmmaker started out as one of the great […]