Steve Prokopy
Review: Stunning and Slightly Sickening, Caveat Marks One Helluva Feature Filmmaking Debut
In Caveat, the stunning and slightly sickening feature debut from writer-director Damian McCarthy, a man named Isaac (Jonathan French) wakes up with partial memory loss and is a bit adrift in […]
Review: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Replicates the Franchise’s Style But Lacks its Heart, Real Scares
In many ways, I consider the first two existing Conjuring movies the gold standard of horror movies. By casting Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as real-life paranormal investigators Lorraine and […]
Review: Two Teens Hit the Road for Birth Control in Contemporary, Funny Plan B
Although the structure of the central friendship is remarkably similar to that in Book Smart, and the storyline somewhat resembles Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Plan B, the latest directing effort […]
Review: Funhouse Creates a Reality Show of Death With a Cast Too Large to Invest In
Without meaning to alarm anyone, we have not run out of Skarsgårds on this planet yet. Valter Skarsgård (Lords of Chaos) stars as Kasper Nordin, a recently dumped former backup […]
Review: Practical Gore and Sheer Audacity Make Skull: The Mask A Highly Watchable Horror Film
My knowledge of Brazilian genre films is…we’ll call it limited. But after watching the latest from writers/director Armando Fonseca and Kapel Furman (2016’s Uptake Fear), I’m game for just about […]
Review: Final Account Records a Time and Mindset That Proves a Cautionary Tale for Today
There will likely be some people who question the need for a film that collects stories of the Holocaust and Nazism from the German perspective. But director Luke Holland (who […]
Review: A Town in Decline Gets a Shot at First Place in Feel-Good, if Lightweight, Dream Horse
A few months ago, in my review of the Netflix drama The Dig, I discussed my love of a certain type of British film that was popular in the 1990s. […]
Review: Australian Crime Drama The Dry Solves Two Mysteries in the Midst of Drought and Despair
It’s been four years since I’ve seen actor Eric Bana in a film, and the film was one (Guy Ritchie’s appalling King Arthur: Legend of the Sword) I didn’t even […]
Review: Danish Revenge Thriller Riders of Justice Balances Action, Relationships and Mads Mikkelsen’s Characteristic Intensity
Although he’s made his living primarily as a writer, Danish filmmaker Anders Thomas Jensen has made a handful of really bizarre and mind-bending films (The Green Butchers, Adam’s Apple, Men […]
Review: If Not a Deep Dive Into Her Life and Work, All I Know So Far Showcases P!nk’s Immense Talent and Parenting Skills
P!nk (real name: Alecia Moore) is an artist whose music I’ve always enjoyed, yet I’ve never purchased or streamed a single album or song by her because her work is […]
Review: Simon Barrett’s Seance Is Full of Mood, Mystery and Predictably Mean Girls
You have to ask yourself, at a certain point while watching Seance, how many bodies have to pile up before someone decides to shut down the prestigious Edelvine Academy for […]
Review: Though Familiar, A Quiet Place Part II Scares and Surprises Enough To Warrant A Big Screen Experience
The justification for making A Quiet Place Part II is simple: the first film was about what brave and strong parents Lee and Evelyn Abbott (real-life married couple John Krasinski […]