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Steve Prokopy

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: With a Lot to Live Up To, Coming 2 America Holds Back Too Much of What Made the Original Great

Coming 2 America

Quite often in the world of sequels, there’s a fine line between nostalgia-mining and genuinely trying to do something new with characters who, in the case of the Eddie Murphy […]

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Review: Newly Unearthed Vietnam-Era Doc F.T.A. Follows Fonda, Sutherland on Protest Shows to Troops

FTA Jane Fonda Donald Sutherland

In what is a surprisingly adept footnote to the history of protests during the Vietnam War, the recently unearthed and restored documentary F.T.A. offers a contextual look at a ragtag […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Time-Looped Boss Level Serves Up Enough Action to Keep Things Interesting

Boss Level

Well, it’s a new month so it must be time for a new film involving a time loop. I’m likely on the verge of growing weary of them, but the […]

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Review: Amy Poehler’s Moxie Makes Memorable Feminists, Revolutionaries of its Teenage Cast

Moxie

Steering away from the drunken silliness she wrangled out of her last directing effort, Wine Country, Amy Poehler now moves into the more serious realm of high school with Moxie, […]

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Review: Disney’s Raya and the Last Dragon Is a Magical, Thrilling Fable Bursting with Impressive Visuals

Raya and the last dragon

Sometimes, a film being magical and beautiful goes a long way with me. But when it decides to throw in a great deal of thrilling action, really fun voice talents […]

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Film, Film & TV, Interview

Interview: My Zoe Filmmaker and Actor Julie Delpy on Morality in Science, Her Love of Sci-Fi and Swearing in French

My Zoe

I’ve been fortunate enough over the years to have interviewed Julie Delpy two times prior to last week, and all three times were in promotion of films she wrote, directed […]

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Review: Crisis Falls Short with Multiple Storylines and Little to Surprise in Any of Them

Crisis

Sometimes, it’s absolutely possible to make too much movie for one subject matter. The gold standard for films about the scope and damage of the drug trade has always been […]

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Review: Julie Delpy Shines as a Filmmaker and Star of My Zoe, a Bold Film that Poses Intriguing Moral Questions

My Zoe

Julie Delpy is one of those rare talents who sparks internal debates about whether she’s a better actor or a better writer/director. I’m guessing most people would say actor, but […]

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Review: In The World’s a Little Blurry Cameras Follow Billie Eilish and her Break into Superstardom

Billie Eilish

Of course it’s too early in the career of Billie Eilish to devote two hours and 20 minutes to a documentary to her accomplishments. She’s only in the midst of […]

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Review: Tom Holland Faces PTSD, Addiction and More in Cherry, a Film With More Story than Character

Cherry

It’s especially ambitious of the Russo Brothers (Anthony and Joe, who made the last two Captain America and Avengers movies) to follow up literally the biggest movies ever made with […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: A Star-Crossed Romance Nearly Becomes Something to Fall for in The Violent Heart

The Violent Heart

From the writer/director of the supremely strong and naturalistic First Girl I Loved, Kerem Sanga, comes another work about a romance that seems fated not to work, with far more […]

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Review: With a Bad Case of a Split-Personality, I Care A Lot Makes it Hard to Care About Much At All

I Care A Lot

Another offering this week that features shitty people doing shitty things to less fortunate people is writer/director J Blakeson’s I Care A Lot, in which Rosamund Pike plays professional, court-appointed […]

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