Steve Prokopy
Review: A Battle of the Generations in Sloppy, Cringe-Worthy The War with Grandpa
Someone genuinely trusts director Tim Hill with family-friendly entertainment. Not only is he also the director behind the COVID-delayed The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (based on the TV […]
Interview: Filmmaker Tim Hill on the Subtext in The War with Grandpa, Reuniting Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, and the Next Spongebob Movie
You may not have your eyes trained on filmmaker Tim Hill’s newest release, The War with Grandpa (based on the very popular 1984 kids book by Robert Kimmel Smith, and […]
Interview: Andrea Riseborough on Connection Through Brutal Annihilation, Working with Auteur Directors and Possessor‘s Psychological Anxieties
In recent years, British actress Andrea Riseborough has been absolutely dominating the world of genre filmmaking, while also making a real name for herself in more mainstream works. Stateside, she […]
Review: Icy Drama The Lie and Twisted Sci-Fi Black Box Kick Off Amazon Prime and Blumhouse Horror Film Quartet
During the month of October, Amazon Prime Video will release a quartet of films from Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios. They’re being promoted as horror films, but the first two […]
Interview: Aya Cash on Playing “a Crazy Bunch of Characters” in Scare Me, Rabid “You’re the Worst” Fans, and Waiting to Get Back to Work
After years of smaller supporting roles in such films as The Wolf of Wall Street and Sleepwalk with Me and series such as “The Newsroom” and “We Are Men,” actress […]
Review: With Its Pretzel-like Logic, Time Travel Sci-Fi Drama 2067 Is Entertaining but Forgettable
As far as low-budget, high-concept science fiction films go (and I feel like we’ve been getting a great many of them over the last six months), the Australian production 2067 […]
Review: A Sanitized, if Musically Rich, Portrait of the Much-Beloved Performer in Herb Alpert Is…
As something of a specialist in documentaries about famous people, director John Scheinfeld (Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary, The US vs John Lennon) has taken on one of his […]
Review: Rashida Jones Shines, Bill Murray Charms in Sofia Coppola’s On the Rocks
There are times where films about the distance between parents and their grown children don’t have to make one party or the other the villain. And in the case of […]
Review: With a Strong, Contemporary Cast, The Boys in the Band Revisits a Turning Point in Queer History
Looking back, I probably first saw the 1970 screen adaptation of playwright Mart Crowley’s 1968 off-Broadway play The Boys in the Band sometime in the late 1980s. And knowing me, […]
Interview: Actor Mark Rylance on Portraying a Legal Legend, Aaron Sorkin’s “Impeccable” Vision and Eddie Redmayne as the Tom Hanks of The Trial of the Chicago 7
I admit, I didn’t know before I spoke with him last week that Mark Rylance had been knighted in 2017, and that my addressing him as anything other than Sir […]
Review: Worthy Feminism but Barely a Revolution in Predictable Misbehaviour
Sometimes shifts in history can be predicted, and other times they happen in unexpected places—such as in the 1970 Miss World competition held every year in London. The film Misbehaviour […]
Review: Recounting a Chicago Courtroom Drama, The Trial of the Chicago 7 Ignites with Staggering Performances
People seem to enjoy giving Oscar-winner Aaron Sorkin grief, and I’m not entirely clear on why. Obviously as a screenwriter, not all of his words are of equal worth, but […]