Steve Prokopy
Review: Political Incorrectness Aside, The Gentlemen is a Return to Form for Ritchie
I fully admit to being a big fan of director Guy Ritchie’s first two gangster comedies—Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch—primarily because they introduced the world to the […]
Review: Renegade Emergency Medical Service Drives Midnight Family
Although it didn’t make the cut as an Academy Award nominee earlier this week, the documentary feature Midnight Family did make the 15-title Oscar shortlist, and for very good reason. […]
Review: Dolittle Does Very Little with Its New Take on a Children’s Classic
The new year is young, but thank goodness we didn’t have to wait more than a couple of weeks into it to hit our first big-budget, military-grade stink-bomb of 2020. […]
Review: A New Entry in the Bad Boys Franchise is Stuck in the Past
Despite the fact that Bad Boys for Life (the third Bad Boys movie, for those counting, and the first since 2003) is meant to focus on its lead characters getting […]
Interview: Co-Stars of Just Mercy on Finding Their Characters and How the Film Changed Them
Now playing in theaters nationwide is the powerful and thought-provoking Just Mercy, a true story based on the book by Harvard Law School-educated civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson (played […]
Review: Underwater Gets Right to the Action, Kristen Stewart Leading the Way
I spent most of director William Eubank’s (The Signal) newest film, Underwater, on the verge of really liking it, waiting for that one original element to push me over the […]
Review: On One Critic’s Life, Words and Influence on Film in What She Said
It seems odd to be reviewing a documentary about a film critic whose influence is still a big part of the critical landscape, in the same way it was surreal […]
Review: No Amount of Makeup Can Cover the Blemishes in Like A Boss
The last time director Miguel Arteta (Cedar Rapids, Chuck & Buck, The Good Girl, Youth in Revolt) and actor Selma Hayek worked together, it resulted in the defiantly under-seen Beatriz […]
Interview: Filmmaker Alla Kovgan on Filming Choreography, Editing for 3-D and Creating Space for Discovery
Directed by Russian-born documentarian Alla Kovgan (Movement (R)evolution Africa), Cunningham traces dancer and revolutionary choreographer Mercier Philip “Merce” Cunningham’s artistic evolution over three decades of risk and discovery (1944–1972), from […]
2019 in Review: Best Documentary Films of the Year
The reason I separate out documentaries into their own Best of the Year list is not because I feel they should be judged differently than feature films, but because I […]
2019 in Review: Best Narrative Films of the Year
Call me old fashioned, but I’m a firm believer in not posting a Best Of the Year list until the year is actually over. I’m often able to squeeze in […]
Review: 1917 Is an Intense, Unforgettable World War I Epic
There’s a moment in the World War I-set film 1917 that will live with me forever. Directed by Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Skyfall, Revolutionary Road) and written by rising talent […]