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.
A great deal of cinematic attention has been paid to the hijacking/hostage-taking/hostage-rescue mission that took place at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda in 1976. In an almost unprecedented reaction, two […]
Directed by Greg Berlanti (the landmark The Broken Hearts Club as well as an executive producer on all of those CW network DC superhero shows and “Riverdale”), Love, Simon is […]
For a film based on a video game, the first thing you notice about Tomb Raider is that it doesn’t feel like a video game at all. Instead, director Roar […]
A few times a year, a film is released that explores the sometimes challenging lives of those of us fortunate enough to age into our senior years. Said films can […]
Sometimes it’s more fun not to have heroes in your movie. Case in point: Gringo, the latest from Australian-born stuntman/coordinator Nash Edgerton, the brother of actor and sometime-filmmaker Joel Edgerton […]
From first-time writer-director Cory Finley comes a unique brand of horror film that isn’t about scares or bodycounts. Thoroughbreds is about the creeping tension that accompanies a murder so meticulously […]
I’ve always been of a firm belief that horror movies should have a point, even if that point is dumb. Many of the slasher movies of the 1980s had a […]
If all you want to know is whether I liked this movie or not, the answer is: No, I did not. And perhaps what made me like it even less […]
The primary reason this new documentary from director Yale Strom (The Last Klezmer, On the Q.T.) exists is to show that there was once a viable candidate for president running […]
I’ll fully admit, I’ve never heard of the 2009 online series “Old Jews Telling Jokes,” but apparently it featured Jewish men and women over the age of 60 telling their […]
Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev has become something of a master at conveying what many of the dark corners of Vladimir Putin’s Russia look like without saying or showing it outright. It’s […]
Going out on a limb here, I’m guessing this reboot of Death Wish will not play well in Chicago, where it is actually set and appears to have been mostly […]