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Review: Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig Return for Wake Up Dead Man, a Knives Out Mystery Challenging Faith and Shifting the Genre

Although I enjoyed this third installment of the Benoit Blanc/Knives Out mysteries most of all, it’s also the one where Blanc (Daniel Craig) doesn’t show up until about 45 minutes […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 30, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Hamnet, Oscar-Winner Chloe Zhao Channels Grief, Family and Shakespeare for One of the Year’s Best

    The cinema has been feeding us a steady diet of sad mothers in recent weeks. When I saw Rose Byrne tear up the screen in If I Had Legs I’d […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 29, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Screenwriter Pat Cunnane and Producer Trevor White on Creating Worlds in Eternity and Reviving the RomCom

    Now in theaters, Eternity tells the story of an afterlife where souls have one week to decide where to spend eternity—and the options are infinite and sometimes hilarious. When the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 28, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Zootopia 2 Brings Fresh Ideas and Familiar Animals to a Crime Caper With Multiple Moving Parts

    I had to recheck my notes to fully grasp that it’s been almost 10 years since the original, wildly successful Zootopia hit theaters. But now, two of its original directors […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 28, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Interview: Japanese Filmmaker Hikari on the Real Companies Renting Friends, Mourners and More That Inspired New Film Rental Family

    In her new film, Rental Family, the filmmaker known as Hikari traces the isolated life of American actor Phillip (Brendan Fraser, in his first lead role since his Best Leading […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 28, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Man Tries to Start Over, In More Ways than One, in Post-Wildfire Drama Rebuilding

    The timing could not have been more difficult for a film like Rebuilding to premiere at Sundance in January, shortly after the devastating LA wildfires. Writer/director Max Walker-Silverman offers a film set […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • November 22, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Wicked For Good Is a Delayed, Unnecessary Sequel That Loses What Little Goodwill Its Predecessor Cultivated

    Let’s start here: Wicked For Good is a film that should not exist. Not just because it’s not a very good film, but more broadly speaking, it just shouldn’t be […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • November 21, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Family Plan 2 Meets the Morgans in Christmastime London, with Familiar Sights, Stale Action and Awkward Family Dynamics

    Even though the first The Family Plan came out only two years ago, you’ll be happy to know I remember next to nothing about it. But as its unnecessary sequel, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 21, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In its Third Installment, Ensemble Caper Now You See Me: Now You Don’t Offers Plenty of Cast But Little Magic

    Words can barely convey how much I have always hated the Now You See Me movies. And the fact that Now You See Me: Now You Don’t director Ruben Fleischer […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 14, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In The Running Man, Glen Powell Is an Everyman Fighting to Change the Distorted, Dystopian System

    If you’ve only seen the 1987 adaptation of Stephen King’s The Running Man and never read the 1982 novel (originally published under King’s pseudonym Richard Bachman, but written in 1973), […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 14, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Known for Taking Risks, Nicolas Cage Attempts the Greatest Story…as a Horror Film…in The Carpenter’s Son

    It’s hardly breaking news that Nicolas Cage has starred in some doozies over his long career. But I’ll fully admit, it’s because an actor of his caliber still takes a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 13, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Family Legacy and Italian Truffle Country at the Center of Melancholy but Authentic Trifole

    Combining a family drama with the world’s obsession with truffles and truffle hunting (it’s a thing, trust me), filmmaker Gabriele Fabbro (The Grand Bolero) brings us Trifole, the story of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 13, 2025
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