Film Review: Paddington 2 Is a Star-Studded Family Affair
How can you not love Paddington Bear, or at the very least feel a strong sense of like for the little guy? The bear cub (again voiced by Ben Whishaw) […]
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.
Interview: Jason Ritter on Committing to the Intensity of Bitch
Out on home video and several streaming platforms today is one of the more talked-about films out of last year’s Sundance Film Festival, writer-director Marianna Palka’s Bitch. Palka stars as […]
Film Review: Paul Thomas Anderson Continues to Impress with Phantom Thread
I make no excuses about the fact that I adore every Paul Thomas Anderson film to varying (often excessive) degrees. And while all of them have felt very “adult” in […]
Film Review: The Master of Deadpan Comedy Returns with The Other Side of Hope
Editor’s Note: This review was also recently posted by our friends at Music Box Theatre. You can read it here. A master of comedic deadpan for more than 30 years, […]
Film Review: Quiet The Fencer Teaches Compassion At the End of a Sword
Nominated a year ago for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globe Awards and also the official Finnish contender for the 2016 Academy Awards, The Fencer is a surprisingly […]
Film Review: Despite Predictability, Biopic Tom of Finland Draws Compelling Portrait of Gay Icon
At some point right around the time the artist Tom of Finland (real name Touko Laaksonen) died in the early 1990s, I remember seeing Daddy and the Muscle Academy, a […]
Film Review: Insidious: The Last Key Is Likely the Franchise’s Last—And Should Be
The Insidious films (this is the fourth one, for those counting) have always been a mixed bag. The first two chapters started strong with a quality director (James Wan), the […]
Film Review: Hostiles Is Filmmaker Scott Cooper’s Best Film Yet
Over the last decade or so writer-director Scott Cooper has amassed an impressive filmography of stories that are so bleakly human as to almost be horror films (or more precisely, […]
Film Review: Spielberg’s The Post Is an Important Story—And a Great Film
Taking a similar approach to earth-shattering news events as 2015’s Spotlight, Steven Spielberg’s The Post barrels through a lot of information, a small army of characters, and enough twists and […]
Film Review: Aida’s Secrets Unearths Dramatic, Moving Family History
With families, there’s always something. But with those sharing a bloodline with 67-year-old Izak Szewelwicz, the journey to discovering all of the members of their extended family is not only […]
Critic Steve Prokopy Names Best Narrative, Documentary Films of 2017
I’m the damn fool who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of… lists, and that’s because I’m often able to squeeze in about a dozen […]
Film Review: Timely All The Money in the World Crackles with Great Performances
In many ways, it’s a shame that a certain percentage of the audience going to see All the Money in the World will do so out of some sort of […]