Review: Rose Byrne Stars in Tow, a Deeply Human Story of a Woman and Her Car
Based on the true story of a year in the life of Amanda Ogle (played ferociously by recent Oscar-nominee Rose Byrne), Tow tells the story of the Seattle woman living […]
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.
Review: Ready or Not 2: Here I Come Spills a Lot of Blood But Skips the Horror
Picking things up mere seconds after Ready or Not, returning writer/directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett (once collectively known as Radio Silence) waste no time getting right back into the […]
Review: In Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling Plays the Sole Survivor on a Mission to Save the Sun
Based on the wildly popular 2021 novel by Andy Weir (The Martian) and adapted by master genre storyteller Drew Godard (also The Martian, as well as The Cabin in the […]
Review: Feature Film Debut undertone Uses Podcasting and a Spooky House to Create Believable Scares
In this day and age, it’s tough for a first-time horror filmmaker to not only find an untapped subject or threat to make terrifying, but also to find tools to […]
Review: The Latest Colleen Hoover Film Adaptation, Reminders of Him, Offers an Emotional Journey to Nowhere
The novels, and the movies based on the novels of, best-selling author Colleen Hoover seem to have one mission, and that is to make you sad. Sure, maybe by the […]
Interview: For Amy Landecker, Writing, Directing and Starring in For Worse, a Personal Story About Love and Divorce, Just Made Sense
Although actress Amy Landecker (Transparent, The Handmaid’s Tale, I Love My Dad) has dabbled in directing television, shorts, and web series in recent years (most notably Tig Notaro’s hilarious Under […]
Interview: Chicagoan Piper Curda on Her First Voice Acting Role in Hoppers, the Physicality of Voiceovers, and Coming from an Acting Family
The latest film from Disney-Pixar asks the eternal question: “What if you could talk to animals and understand what they say back to you?” But Hoppers is no ordinary talking-animal […]
Review: The Latest Pixar Animated Offering, Hoppers, Features the Studio’s Signature Mix of Entertainment and Emotion for All Ages
It’s certainly not unusual for a Disney/Pixar animated work to get emotional; hell, the two Inside Out movies are literally about emotions. But it’s difficult to recall a Pixar release […]
Review: Filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal Re-Imagines a Frankenstein Tale with Feminism, Romance and Rebellion in The Bride!>
Following up her exceptional directing debut, The Lost Daughter (which also featured a staggering turn from Jessie Buckley), filmmaker Maggie Gyllenhaal has created a version of a familiar horror story […]
Review: Chicagoan Amy Landecker Writes, Directs and Stars in For Worse, A Late-in-Life RomCom with Heart
Although it takes a great many broad strokes when it comes to its comedy, actor-turned-first-time feature writer-director Amy Landecker’s (Transparent) For Worse gets a great deal right when it comes […]
Review: In The Blink of An Eye Follows Three Distant Generations, but Paints Humanity Too Broadly to Connect Deeply
From the 2017 Black List script by Colby Day (Spaceman) and directed by Andrew Stanton (Wall-E, Finding Nemo/Dory, John Carter, the upcoming Toy Story 5), In the Blink of an […]
Review: Documentarian Morgan Neville Brings Skill and Artistry to Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, Following the Former Beatle’s Mid-Career
Considering how much the Beatles have been featured in documentaries lately—between Peter Jackson’s epic Get Back series about the band recording the Let It Be album, and the recent re-release […]