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.
The things that bring family together, when simply being related isn’t enough of a reason to do so—this is the running theme of writer/director Azarel Jacobs’ (Terri, The Lovers, French […]
Say what you want about the debut feature from writers/directors Max and Sam Eggers (brothers of filmmaker Robert Eggers, who helmed The Witch and The Lighthouse, as well as the […]
Filmmaker Tim Burton has garnered a reputation as a visionary and for being quite odd, and there’s nothing out there that says the two can’t be contained in a single […]
What I learned from my recent time spent with singer/actor/producer/model Tyrese Gibson is to expect the unexpected. Also, he’s a great talker when inspired to be one. Gibson was born […]
The latest work from Spanish-born director Guillem Morales (Julia’s Eyes) begins as a domestic drama with Heather (Naomie Harris) engaged in an almost psychotic war with the occasional wasp that […]
Few filmmakers merged the personal and professional as gracefully as producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory. Their partnership ushered in the Golden Age of art-house cinema in the mid-1980s, […]
In case you were wondering, 1992 isn’t the only film being released this week that is something of a bait and switch—a film that starts out as a family drama […]
Directed by Adam MacDonald (Backcountry), from a screenplay by Enuka Okuma, the Canadian production Out Come the Wolves takes a fairly straightforward approach to telling a story about retired hunter […]
It didn’t take longer than about five minutes for me to figure out exactly what type of biopic Reagan was going to be. Obviously, it’s a childhood-to-death tracing of the […]
While this new Casey Affleck-starring work, Slingshot, is set up like a science-fiction story, in reality it’s a tense acting exercise couched in a psychological thriller. The whole thing is […]
When we first meet small town cop Terry (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), he’s telling a joke so tasteless and ill-advised for the workplace that we know exactly who this guy is and […]
For reasons that don’t quite make sense even to me, the prospect of actor Zoë Kravitz directing/co-writing a film (with E.T. Feigenbaum) has filled me with excitement since I heard […]