Steve Prokopy
Review: As Early Russian Cosmonauts, Space Dogs Brought Tough Street Smarts to Orbit
On the surface, the documentary Space Dogs is about the Soviet space program during its infancy, when dogs were placed into spacecrafts and sent above the atmosphere and eventually (usually) […]
Review: Miranda July’s Oddball Kajillionaire Follows a Family of Scam Artists with Emotional Baggage
My admiration for writer/director/artist Miranda July runs deep, and the feeling began when I first saw her 2005 debut feature Me and You and Everyone We Know (her follow-up, The […]
Review: Setting Aside Its Asides, Netflix’s Enola Holmes Works Best as a Coming-of-Age Adventure
Being totally unfamiliar with author Nancy Springer’s six-novel series about the teenage sister of detective Sherlock Holmes and Mycroft Holmes (who is also technically Enola’s legal guardian), I wasn’t exactly […]
Interview: Director Sean Durkin on Filming a Period Piece, Exploring Family Dynamics and Professional Ambition in The Nest
Much like his frequent producing partners Antonio Campos (who directed the new Netflix drama The Devil All the Time) and Josh Mond (James White), filmmaker Sean Durkin has spent a […]
Interview: The Devil All the Time Filmmaker Antonio Campos on Adapting a Book Without Losing the Author and Robert Pattinson’s Journey to That Accent
For several years, writer/director Antonio Campos was part of a loose collective of filmmakers (that also included Sean Durkin, maker of this week’s The Nest, and James White director Josh […]
Review: Around Its Twists and Turns, Antebellum Is Anticlimactic and Frequently Dull
I was somewhat leery when the synopsis for Antebellum described the first-time writing/directing team Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz as “advocacy filmmakers…best known for their pioneering advertising work engaged in […]
Review: At a Family Gathering Full of Drama, Emotion in Blackbird Sometimes Falls Short
When we first meet Lily (Susan Sarandon), it’s during a long and seemingly painful exercise of getting up and out of bed, getting dressed, and making it down the stairs […]
Review: The Nest Impressively Observes Family Dynamics, Solitude, Ambition and Greed
With his first feature Martha Marcy May Marlene, writer/director Sean Durkin told a harrowing story about sisterhood—both blood relations and the kind you choose (in the case of that film, […]
Review: Through Pete Souza’s Lens, a Unique View of the Presidency in The Way I See It
There are some who have a front-row seat to history, yet we never know their names and rarely notice them in the photos that depict such moments. And that’s for […]
Review: A Somewhat Familiar Story, The Secrets We Keep Finds Tension in a Search for the Truth
The flawed but still compelling latest feature from director/co-writer Yuval Adler (The Operative, Bethlehem) takes the somewhat familiar story (at least in movies) of a former Nazi soldier found in […]
Review: The Devil All the Time Sees Deeply Southern Storylines Converge in Bursts of Brutality
The first thing you realize about the new Netflix drama The Devil All the Time is that it’s several smaller films in one, all of which eventually collide by the […]
Review: The Broken Hearts Gallery Puts a Bad Script and Poorly Drawn Characters on Full Display
I’m as susceptible to a halfway decent rom-com as the next human being; I’m more easily sucked in by a straight-up romantic drama, but have no objection to having a […]