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Steve Prokopy

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: The Forever Purge Concludes a Brutal Series on a Relevant, Prescient and Terrifying Note

The Forever Purge

The fifth and supposedly final Purge movie, The Forever Purge begins not with the annual, 12-hour violent crime spree that is the focal point of this series but with a […]

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Review: A Time-Traveling, Alien Invasion Action Flick, The Tomorrow War Is Good for an Evening In with the Sound Up

The Tomorrow War

The Tomorrow War is the latest sci-fi action film in which the time-travel math doesn’t quite add up (which didn’t keep me from enjoying the film, I’m just saying). Chris Pratt […]

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Review: Netflix Animated Feature America: The Motion Picture Pokes Boisterous Fun at America’s Founding

America Motion Picture

It’s safe to say, I don’t believe your high school history classes taught you the version of the Revolutionary War that is presented in the animated action movie America: The […]

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Review: Zola Is a Mind-Bending, Hilarious, Daring Road Trip Movie Inspired by a Whirlwind Twitter Thread

My memory of seeing Zola for the first time a year and a half ago at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival is so vivid, I was convinced certain recollections were […]

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Review: Horror and Comedy Don’t Mix Well in Ultimately Boring Vicious Fun

Vicious Fun

It hurts just a little bit more when a film’s premise is solid but the execution just can’t keep pace. Welcome to the latest work from Cody Calahan (the two […]

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Interview: Filmmaker Vanessa Roth on Telling Mary J. Blige’s Story of Strength and Vulnerability in My Life

Mary J Blige My Life

Filmmaker Vanessa Roth has made a career out of profiling everyday men and women whose stories resonate and inspire far beyond the subject’s smaller-scale origins. One of her earliest works […]

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Interview: Michaela Watkins and Michael Chernus on Werewolves Within, Improv on Set and Filming in the Dead of Winter

Werewolves Within

Some might say it’s scary how many talented comedic actors make up the ensemble cast of the new horror comedy Werewolves Within, directed by Josh Ruben (Scare Me) and written […]

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Review: As Predictable as It Is Exciting, Liam Neeson’s Latest, The Ice Road, Gets Points for Authenticity

The Ice Road

Well, it’s been about a month or so, so it must be time for a new Liam Neeson movie to pop up on a streaming service, as God intended it. […]

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Review: False Positive Uses Horror and Social Commentary to Explore Fertility, Pregnancy and Female Agency

False Positive

If you’re looking for a comedic partnership team who, between the two of them, have worked on such shows as Wonder Showzen, Inside Amy Schumer, The Heart, She Holler, and, […]

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Review: Compact, Focused Mary J Blige’s My Life Documentary Explores the Trauma, Inspiration of Artist’s Most Personal Album

Mary J Blige My Life

Less a life/career-spanning documentary biopic and more focusing on the work of art that set the stage for the career that followed, director Vanessa Roth’s Mary J Blige’s My Life […]

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Review: Small Town Residents and Rumors Run Amok in Funny, Surprising Werewolves Within

Werewolves Within

As strange as it may seem, the video game-inspired horror comedy Werewolves Within is less about a monster terrorizing a small Vermont town in the dead of winter and more […]

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Review: F9 is More Furious than Fast, an Overstuffed Entry in an Overlong Franchise

F9

Is it my imagination, or do most of the Fast & Furious movies spend about a third of their running times explaining or rewriting the events of previous installments? I […]

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