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.
Examining both the dehumanizing experience of being in prison and the healing power of the creative arts, writer/director Greg Kwedar’s deeply moving drama Sing Sing is based on the real-life […]
When I read the plot synopsis for the new film from director Jocelyn Moorhouse (Proof, How to Make an American Quilt), my first thought was “Who does Diane Keaton play […]
Much like his wonderful, epic-length documentary A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies, the Scorsese-produced and narrated Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger is far […]
There were moments in the first two Deadpool movies in which the fourth-wall-breaking Wade Wilson/Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) would poke gentle fun at both the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the X-Men […]
New Zealand-born director Lee Tamahori has a proven track record for character-driven action films (The Edge, Once Were Warriors)—he even made a Bond movie (Die Another Day). With The Convert, […]
The stories that led to the downfall of beloved and admired comedian Louis C.K. are unique for many reasons. Chief among them is that, when confronted with the allegations, C.K. […]
Why anyone would release an awards-worthy drama like writer/director Baltasar Kormákur’s Touch in the heart of the summer is a mystery to me, but don’t let this deeply moving film […]
Writer/director Osgood Perkins has gotten quite the reputation as a horror filmmaker when it’s never truly seemed to be his goal to scare people. His objective with film like The […]
This is a goofy-ass movie, where making sense is perhaps the third most important thing to writer/director Niclas Larsson, making his feature debut with Mother, Couch. The premise is simple […]
Blending comedy, drama and a touch of historical fiction, director Greg Berlanti (Love, Simon and the showrunner of the CW’s Arrow-verse) sends us skyward with Fly Me to the Moon, […]
The Midway Drive-In of Sterling, Ill., one of 12 permanently constructed movie drive-ins in Illinois, and its owners/operators, Mike and Mia Kerz, recognize that their business is part of a […]
Set in 1961 Israel—specifically when the verdict and sentencing of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, the chief architect of the Holocaust, was announced—June Zero offers three different perspectives of the […]