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.
Without even realizing it, I have come to truly love the works of filmmaker Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love & Basketball; Beyond the Lights; The Old Guard), but nothing quite prepared me […]
Meant to be a lighthearted romp, much like the production portrayed in the play being put on within the movie, See How They Run finds ways to be frothy without […]
The world has been threatening to make a new Fletch movie (based on the comical mystery novels by Gregory McDonald) for many decades now (I remember Kevin Smith had one […]
It’s a rare thing when a sequel is better than the original; rarer still when a prequel is better than an original film that was already pretty special. But here […]
Directed by Tommy Haines, the documentary Hockeyland is about exactly what the title implies: a place where all things seem to revolve around high school hockey, whether you be player, […]
Writer/director John Hamburg is a man made of comedy. In particular, his films seem to center on the often uncomfortable way we interact with friends and family, especially during times […]
I have a crystal clear memory of seeing the original Clerks at the 1994 Chicago International Film Festival. I’d heard some things about it after its premiere nine months earlier […]
Full confession: the only reason I watched this movie was because I thought it was from France. Turns out, the new film from director Steven C. Miller (First Kill, Line […]
Justin Long is having a hell of a week in horror. Not only does he appear in the big release of the week, Barbarian (playing an absolute douche), he also […]
I’d estimate that of the 500-plus films I watch in a given year, it’s fairly easy to predict how 85 percent of them are going to end (or at least […]
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes movies really depress me. I’m not talking about movies with depressing storylines of someone dying of a disease or breakup movies or any number […]
In Burial, the second feature from writer/director Ben Parker (2016’s The Chamber), we are dropped into a story that takes place during a period in World War II history that’s […]