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Steve Prokopy

ARTICLES: 1779
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: How One Man Shaped the Modern Media Landscape in Divide & Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes

Divide and Conquer

There’s no way you don’t come out from watching Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, the latest by director Alexis Bloom (Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Bathtubs Over Broadway Chronicles Corporate Musicals and the Man Who Loves Them

Bathtubs Over Broadway

I have vivid memories of watching old episodes of both the NBC and CBS versions of David Letterman’s late night talk show and always getting a kick out a repeating […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: As January Horror Films Go, Escape Room Isn’t Horrible

Escape Room

In what has become an annual tradition at the movie theaters in early January, a PG-13 horror film has slipped in and threatened to soft-peddle largely bloodless scares in the […]

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Film, Film & TV

See Every Documentary Shortlisted for an Oscar at Music Box Theatre

Oscars Spotlight

In a cinematic feat that I’ve never seen attempted before, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has partnered with a handful of movie theaters across the country (including […]

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Film, Film & TV

2018 in Review: What We Liked on the Big Screen (Documentaries Edition)

Bisbee '17

The reason I separate out documentaries is not because I feel they should be judged differently than feature films, but because I want to put as many great doc titles […]

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Film, Film & TV

2018 in Review: What We Liked on the Big Screen (Narratives Edition)

A Star Is Born

I’m the dummy who waits until the year actually ends before rolling out my Best Of… lists, and that’s because I’m often able to squeeze in about a dozen or […]

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Film, Film & TV, Interview

Interview: Stars of If Beale Street Could Talk On Getting the Part and Finding Love in Every Scene

If Beale Street Could Talk

The lead actors in If Beale Street Could Talk, the latest work from Moonlight filmmaker Barry Jenkins, had two very different paths that brought them to this extraordinary movie, adapted […]

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Film, Film & TV, Interview

Interview: Filmmaker Barry Jenkins on Adapting the “Unfilmable,” and Sneaking into Screenings of If Beale Street Could Talk

If Beale Street Could Talk

Writer/director Barry Jenkins has made something bold and beautiful in his third feature, If Beale Street Could Talk, based on a book by James Baldwin that has long been labeled […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: In Risky Cheney Biopic VICE, Former VP is the Supervillain

Vice

Whether or not you enjoy this biopic on former Vice-President Dick Cheney may depend a great deal on how much you enjoy snark, skimming the surface of a subject who […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review, Uncategorized

Review: Jennifer Lopez in Second Act Doesn’t Deserve a First Look

Second Act

In a true Christmas miracle, everything about Second Act, the new Jennifer Lopez film, manages to scream that it’s both trying too hard and not trying hard enough. Foregoing any real […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Transformers Franchise Surprises with Friendship, Heart and Heroism in Bumblebee

Bumblebee

Taking what is essentially the kid-and-her-pet scenario that is as old as time and applying it to a sci-fi adventure story that acts as a prequel to director Michael Bay’s […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: DC’s Big, Bold Aquaman Isn’t a Masterpiece; It Is a Feast for the Eyes

Aquaman

Here’s the thing about the latest film based on a DC Comics superhero: it’s actually a lot of fun. Aquaman is not great—it’s barely even good—but it’s a great deal […]

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