Review: The Party Is Pitch-Black Comedy About Class, Love and Politics
It opens with Kristin Scott Thomas pointing a gun at you, so you know the latest from Sally Potter (Orlando, The Tango Lesson, Yes), The Party, is going to be […]
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.
Review: Game Night Takes Some Sharp Turns
Thanks to a smarter-than-expected script (from Mark Perez) and a cast of both funny people and terrific actors (not always mutually exclusive, as it turns out), the new adult comedy […]
Review: Hannah Is Both Disturbing and Fascinating
Editors Note: this is a repost of an article from Third Coast Review’s Chicago International Film Festival coverage The second feature from Italian-born director/co-writer Andrea Pallaoro (Medeas) is the French-language […]
Review: Intimacy and Vulnerability Played to Masterful Effect in Rogers Park
From Chicago-based director Kyle Henry (Fourplay) and screenwriter Carlos Treviño comes Rogers Park, a relationship drama about the two couples living in the northside Chicago neighborhood over the course of […]
Review: Captivating Annihilation Sparks Sci-Fi Movie Conversations
Here’s hoping that we have enough Star Wars and superhero movies in our yearly science-fiction regimen to satiate that base-level need, and that there’s room in our movie diets for […]
Interview: Author of Every Day on Love, Gender Fluidity and Successful Film Adaptations
Author David Levithan might have one of the most unique stories in having his novels adapted into feature films, in that he’s genuinely pleased with all three of them. That […]
See Oscar Nominated Icarus on the Big Screen with Dinner & Docs
As part of its quarterly Dinner & Docs @ The Davis series, the Davis Theater (4614 N. Lincoln Ave. in Chicago) is featuring the Chicago theatrical premiere of the recently […]
Film Review: Pixar, Who? Aardman Studios Scores Big with Animated Early Man
This is a simple formula. If you love animation, Aardman Studios, comedies, soccer and/or movies in general, then you really have no excuse not to see Aardman’s latest, Early Man. […]
Film Review: Black Panther May Just Be the Best Superhero Movie Ever
Almost a year ago exactly, first-time feature director Jordan Peele released Get Out, as significant a film as you could imagine to usher in an administration that seems to have […]
Interview: Bill Pullman and Jared Moshe on Western The Ballad of Lefty Brown
There have been almost as many Western sidekick characters as there are Western films, with the late, great Walter Brennan being chief among them. But with the new film The Ballad […]
Film Review: Homespun Samantha’s Amazing Acrocats A Lesson in Perseverance
A Princeton, Illinois, native who now lives in Chicago, Samantha Martin is proof positive that sticking with your passion and becoming the best at what you do—no matter how seemingly […]
Film Review: Brie Larson Can’t Save Subpar Basmati Blues
Watching this long-delayed American musical (the film was supposed to be released in 2015) set in India, starring Oscar-winner Brie Larson (but shot before she became an Oscar winner), I […]