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.
There are films that simply know how to make an audience happy, and there are those that shamelessly manipulate a crowd into trying to feel something to the point of […]
I’m not sure if it’s the best news or the worst that no one to date has turned a play written by the late August Wilson into a movie for […]
In the harrowing, true-life story that spans nearly 30 years, In Her Name tells the story of Andre Bamberski (the great French king of angst, Daniel Auteuil), who finds out […]
If you’re a James Franco completist (and honestly, who amongst us isn’t?), then you know this can be a tiring occupation at times. In 2016 alone, the man acted in […]
Before we go any further, let’s make one thing clear. This review contains spoilers. Proceed with caution. I’ll never quite understand the mentality that dictates that you can only like […]
I enter every film based on anything other than an original screenplay the same way: I’m of a firm belief that you shouldn’t have to have had any exposure to […]
I’ve had many people ask me about this film (perhaps because it’s one of the few holiday releasees suitable for the entire family), and they’ve referred to it as “that […]
One of the better purely hand-drawn animated films of 2016, Long Way North tells the tale of Sasha (voiced by Christa Théret), a Russian teenager circa 1882, whose grandfather was […]
Sometimes a movie is bad just because it’s bad, and sometimes it’s bad because it wants so passionately to be good that it chokes on its noble intentions. The last […]
Despite what you may have been led to believe, writer-director Damien (Whiplash) Chazelle’s La La Land is not some type of homage to the Hollywood musicals of old. It only […]
I’ve had a lot of people ask me variations on “How can there be any suspense within Rogue One if we already know how it ends?” But it became evident […]
Just a few weeks ago, we were fortunate enough to get the brief release of director Antonio Campos film Christine, about Florida newscaster Christine Chubbuck, who killed herself on the […]