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Steve Prokopy

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: An Assassin, A Man-Hunt and a Glimpse of Anthony Hopkins’ Greatness in Otherwise Middling The Virtuoso

The Virtuoso

This is an odd, although not entirely unpleasant, one. Anson Mount plays a professional assassin known only as The Virtuoso (in the credits, at least; I don’t think he’s ever […]

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Review: Four Good Days Sees Mother, Daughter Navigate Addiction, Trauma and the Rough Road to Recovery

Four Good Days

There could easily be a sub-genre in the field of the dramatic arts devoted exclusively to stories about drug addiction. In recent years, especially in the era of an opioid […]

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Review: A Contemporary Tom Clancy Adaptation, Without Remorse Excels with Straightforward and Satisfying Action

Without Remorse

Because my maternal grandfather was in the Navy during World War II, he was naturally drawn to the early novels of the late Tom Clancy, whose spy thrillers are often […]

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Review: Haunted House Drama Things Heard and Seen Barely Manages a Scare, Any Real Drama

Things Heard and Seen

Things Heard and Seen, based on the novel by Elizabeth Brundage, All Things Cease to Appear, is the latest work from the writing/directing team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert […]

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Review: Bad Boys Will Be Bad Boys in Well-Acted but Messy, Muddy Here Are the Young Men

Here Are the Young Men

It could be a sign of aging on my part, but I seem to have lost my patience for films about young people running around causing general mayhem and screwing […]

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Review: A Studio Mogul’s Career, Life and Influence Seems Endless (and Endlessly Impressive) in Laddie

Laddie

Alan Ladd Jr. was born into show business, as a certain percentage of those who work in the film industry are. They use their familial connections to work their way […]

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Review: A Mixed-Bag of Couple Drama and Sitcom Silliness, We Broke Up Barely Balances Its Two Different Tones

We Broke Up

Teetering on the line between heartfelt relationship dramedy and sitcom silliness, director Jeff Rosenberg’s We Broke Up tells the story of longtime unmarried couple Lori (Aya Cash, “You’re the Worst”) […]

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Review: Overly Complicated yet Impressively Brutal, Mortal Kombat Gets a Modern, Primal Reboot

Mortal Kombat

I’ve never played the Mortal Kombat video game (from Midway Games), nor have I revisited the 1995 film version since its original theatrical release. But I also didn’t live in […]

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Review: Stowaway Finds Drama in the Isolation, Limited Resources and Interpersonal Conflict of Space Travel

Stowaway

I have no idea if the latest film from director/co-writer Joe Penna (Arctic) was made during the pandemic, but it sure feel like it could have been, albeit in a […]

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Review: Ruby Rose Is Perhaps the Only Good Element In Her Latest Action Flick, Vanquish

Vanquish

By no means would I ever try to sell you on the idea that action movie staple Ruby Rose (John Wick: Chapter 2, The Meg, The Doorman) is a great […]

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Review: New Love Confronts Selfishness, Immaturity and More in Intimate, Emotional Monday

Monday

I can’t promise that you’ll enjoy the new romantic drama Monday, but I can promise you a glimpse of Sebastian Stan’s little (Winter) soldier and a whole lot of his […]

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Review: Featuring a Historically Haunted House, The Banishing Is Frustratingly Confusing, Half-Baked

The Banishing

I have very much been in director Christopher Smith’s camp since his one-two horror punch of Creep and Severance back in the mid-2000s, and I’ve most enjoyed many of his […]

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