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.
In any other action movie, the emphasis on a revolutionary would be on his/her glory days of radical acts, like blowing up buildings, freeing political prisoners, etc. But in writer/director […]
In what could easily have been an entry-level thriller set in a frigid climate, the filmmakers behind Dead of Winter did an astonishing thing and hired Emma Thompson to play […]
In something that is more of an interesting experiment than an actual event worth celebrating, director Renny Harlin and screenwriters Alan R. Cohen & Alan Freeland announced they were taking […]
Beast of War Shockingly enough, there are still a few fresh takes on the killer shark story, and the Australian film Beast of War gives us one of the stronger […]
The latest from director Colin Minihan (Grave Encounters, What Keeps You Alive) is the brisk, sometimes truly scary Coyotes, which finds ways to be funny and gross, as well as […]
In one of the best opening sequences of the year, a clearly broken young woman named Polly (Dakota Fanning) listens to series of voice messages from people who are all […]
Every once in a while, I’m reminded how fun it is to walk into a movie knowing absolutely nothing about it. Specifically, I walked into my first 2025 Fantastic Fest […]
Too often in love stories, we are told two people are in love but we’re not shown whatever that inherent thing is that pulls them together. As in real life, […]
Produced by Oscar-winner Jordan Peele (so much so that some people thought he directed this one) and directed/co-written by up-and-comer Justin Tipping (Kicks), Him is either the extreme version of […]
People paying any kind of attention to pop culture over the last 50 years know there are two different Stephen King stories: the purely narrative/non-horror tales that still may contain […]
Sometimes the metaphor screams louder than the story itself and the subtext is written bigger and bolder than the text. Such is the case with director Nadia Latif’s second film […]
Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Bing Liu’s (Minding the Gap) latest film, Preparation for the Next Life, is about Uyghur migrant Aishe (newcomer Sebiye Behtiyar) living in New York City and […]