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.
Using 40 hours of new, raw interview material from its subject as framework, the two-part documentary Pee-wee As Himself explores the complex and conflicted life of Paul Reubens, who somehow comes […]
Adapted from yet another one of author R.L. Stine’s Fear Street books (specifically The Prom Queen) and following up the 2021 trilogy of films directed by Leigh Janiak, Fear Street: […]
I believe it’s safe to add yet another film to the growing pantheon of horror titles that are actually family dramas in disguise. From writer/director Julia Max (helming her feature […]
Tom Cruise has been playing Ethan Hunt for 30 years; let that sink in. Sure, he’s taken on close to 20 non-Mission: Impossible roles since the first film in 1996, […]
Unlike many other issue-oriented documentaries that capitalize on the controversy of the moment and round up a group of talking-head “experts” on a subject to expound on the extremes of […]
From directors Nyle DiMarco (a Deaf activist making his directing debut) and Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth, Waiting for “Superman,” Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie) comes a lesser-known chapter […]
Two things have always separated the Final Destination films from other horror franchises. First, the villain (Death) is never seen, only experienced—there are no clever quips or certain types of […]
Although it didn’t take quite as long as it did The Accountant to get to its recent sequel (nine years), Another Simple Favor takes place in the aftermath of 2018’s […]
Not since the original Guardians of the Galaxy movie has Marvel so successfully forged a team that worked so convincingly together and resulted in so much emotion by the end […]
In Havoc, the latest absolutely chaotic, utterly brutal actioner from writer/director Gareth Evans (The Raid), Tom Hardy plays Walker, a beaten-down, taken-out-with-the-trash detective who starts out like that even before […]
Considering the pedigree of the horror video game adaptation Until Dawn, I admittedly expected something better. From director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out, Annabelle: Creation, both Shazam! movies) and writers […]
Based on the 2019 book by Shannon Pufahl, On Swift Horses is a story about secrets and secret lives in the period in American history immediately following the Korean War. […]