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.
With his latest feature, Sisu, Finnish-born writer-director Jalmari Helander finally got to shoot Finland for Finland, having shot Norway for Finland in his 2010 breakthrough film, the demented Christmas-themed Rare […]
After months of speculation leading up to the most recent Ant-Man and the Wasp film, Quantamania, that Scott Lang was going to somehow get killed by the end, observers of […]
Filmmaker François Ozon (8 Women, Swimming Pool, Under the Sand) has never shied away from storylines or themes that have the capacity to make us uncomfortable with our own thoughts, […]
Despite having what I consider to be a solid track record as far as his film output goes (including another live-action take on the partially animated Disney classic Pete’s Dragon) […]
What begins as duel storylines on either side of the U.S.-Mexican border come crashing together in a symphony of violence, passion, dance, and music to become a truly singular experience […]
Finnish-born writer/director Jalmari Helander (Rare Exports, Big Game) has done something very few filmmakers have or would have the guts to even try: make an entire film that is meant […]
With his second film as writer/director, Franklin Ritch (who also edited the film and co-stars) has created a science fiction morality play in The Artifice Girl that ranks up there […]
Many times when critics review an issue-oriented documentary, the writer will focus more on the issue and less on the filmmaking, and judge the film on how well the filmmaker […]
Forgive me for getting stuck on this, but this movie took four people to write; I won’t name them here because I don’t want to embarrass them. And those are […]
Profiling a familiar family dynamic, but with unexpectedly heartfelt and emotional results, director/co-writer/star Ray Romano makes his feature directing debut with Somewhere in Queens, the story of lovable loser Leo […]
Although not based on a specific true story, Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant (likely named that so the film is not confused with Renny Harlin’s 2006 supernatural thrill The Covenant) is […]
Even devotees of the Evil Dead properties may not recall this, but in Sam Raimi’s Army of Darkness film (aka Evil Dead III), it is established that there are, in […]