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.
Less a pure boxing film and more a tragic biopic with a hopeful ending, Christy chronicles the story of Christy Martin (Sydney Sweeney, looking almost unrecognizable in early scenes), who […]
Writer/director Guillermo del Toro has had a vision for his telling of author Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein for a couple of decades—not just the makeup and production design but also what […]
Sometimes you read history, and other times you have history read to you. And the new film from writer/director James Vanderbilt (the established writer and producer whose only other directing […]
At this point, it should become the law of the land that filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane) is the only one allowed to make Predator sequels. With the streaming-only […]
Because she was born in West Virginia and was the daughter of an actual coal miner, groundbreaking boxer Christy Martin was nicknamed the “Coal Miner’s Daughter” in the early part […]
I’ve come to realize recently that action movies or thrillers set in extremely cold temperatures are so much better than ones set in warmer environments. I don’t know if it’s […]
There are different kinds of crime families. There are the ones we’re more familiar with who live in big cities, dress to the nines, and influence everything from the police […]
Capturing on film a high-stakes gambler’s inner workings, let alone a degenerate gambler with seemingly no bottom in which to bottom out, is tough for any filmmaker—and many have tried. […]
Much like the title character of this handsome animated movie, Stitch Head has sewn together elements of Frankenstein, Pinocchio, and a Tim Burton sensibility and turned it into fairly bland […]
I’m fairly certain that the point of Anniversary, the new film from Polish-born director Jan Komasa (Good Boy), is to illustrate how even the tightest-knit family can be torn apart […]
Currently in theaters, writer-director Mary Bronstein’s If I Had Legs I’d Kick You tells the story of a young mother and therapist named Linda (an edgy Rose Byrne) whose life […]
When a film gives you a word like “Regret” in its title and it also isn’t very good, the jokes write themselves. So I won’t stoop to that level and […]