Chicago Film Festival: What To See Before It’s Over
The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival is happening now (through October 26), and the Third Coast Review film team got a chance to screen many of the film selections in […]
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: Sean Baker Almost Cast a Former Mouseketeer in The Florida Project
Writer-director Sean Baker has made three films in a row (all told, he’s made six) that have taken an almost hypnotic approach to reality-based fiction. In 2012’s Starlet, Baker and […]
Chicago Film Festival: What to See This Week
The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival is happening now (through October 26), and the Third Coast Review film team got a chance to screen many of the film selections in […]
Film Review: Loving Vincent is a Van Gogh Masterpiece on Screen
You often hear the claim that a film is “unlike anything you’ve seen before,” but in the case of the animated work Loving Vincent, there’s no other way to describe […]
Film Review: The Meyerowitz Stories Is Noah Baumbach at His Best
Already streaming on Netflix and now getting a limited theatrical run (in Chicago, at the Landmark Century Center Cinema) The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) is the latest from writer-director […]
Film Review: The Florida Project is Vital American Filmmaking
What will undoubtedly be one of my favorite films of 2017, writer-director Sean Baker’s The Florida Project follows his previous two exercises in brash (meant in the best possible way) […]
Film Review: The Foreigner is Watchable, and That May Be Enough
In my decades of being a Jackie Chan enthusiast, I never thought I’d see him in an action-enhanced drama fighting against a terrorist group known as “The Authentic IRA.” But […]
Film Review: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women Draws You Into the Story Behind the Heroine
Feel free to put your claims of opportunism aside; there’s no way the makers of the intriguing biopic Professor Marston and the Wonder Women could have possibly known that Patty […]
Chicago Int’l Film Festival’s First Weekend: What to See
The 53rd Chicago International Film Festival is happening now (through October 26), and the Third Coast Review film team got a chance to screen many of the film selections in […]
Our Preview of the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival
The 53rd edition of the Chicago International Film Festival is upon us, beginning tonight (and continuing through October 26), with the Chicago premiere of the historical courtroom drama Marshall, from […]
Film Review: Marshall Beautifully Balances Ambition and Humanity
Editor’s Note: Marshall opens the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival; see our full coverage here. I’m actually a big fan of biopics that take the approach that a famous or […]
Interview: Chicago International Film Festival Artistic Director Mimi Plauché
North America’s longest-running competitive film festival, the 53rd Chicago International Film Festival begins on Thursday, Oct. 12 at the AMC River East 21 (where almost every CIFF screening will, once […]