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Preview:  Architecture & Design Film Festival to Offer 10 Feature Films on Sustainability and Design Themes

The Architecture & Design Film Festival, a touring international film festival, returns to  Chicago next week. The festival runs Thursday, February 19, through Sunday, February 22, at the Chicago Cultural Center […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • February 10, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Horror Film Whistle Finds Scares Are Familiar Genre Tropes With a Solid Young Cast

    One of these days, horror movies are going to run out of cursed objects to trigger deaths after a certain number of days. But until that time comes, welcome to […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 6, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: As Mockumentaries Go, The Moment Lacks the Awareness Needed To Be In on the Charli xcx Frenzy

    I have no doubt that being a successful, touring pop star can be extremely stressful. So when Charli xcx’s album brat ended up being a massive hit (her biggest commercial […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 6, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Dispatch: One Last Sundance in Park City, One Last Round of Film Reviews

    Enjoy our latest dispatch from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival…. Next year, it will be Boulder. Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie One of the strongest docs at Sundance […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 6, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: As Sundance Film Festival Winds Down, On-Screen Discoveries Abound

    Enjoy our latest dispatch from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival…. Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! If Sundance Film Festival is about discoveries, a film like Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! Surely fits […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • February 5, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: When A Witness Recants Is a Powerful, Evidence-Driven Revisiting of a 1980s Murder and the Resulting Wrongful Convictions

    This review is part of our ongoing coverage of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. The latest impactful and emotionally charged documentary from director Dawn Porter (John Lewis: Good Trouble; Luther: […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 30, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: John Turturro Stars in The Only Living Pickpocket in New York, an Ode to Small Time Crooks, Character Actors and the City

    This review is part of our ongoing coverage of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. One of the festival’s biggest and most welcome surprises comes from actor-turned-writer/director Noah Segan (Blood Relatives), […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 30, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: As Sundance Film Festival Continues, Established Filmmakers Bring New Works to Audiences

    Enjoy our latest dispatch from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival…. Frank & Louis Swiss filmmaker Petra Volpe makes a poignant and impressive English-language debut with Frank & Louis, the story […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • January 29, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: Two Horror Films and a Haunting Drama as Sundance Film Festival Continues

    Enjoy our latest dispatch from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival… Buddy What begins as a fairly generic but quite authentic kids television show circa 1999 (a la Barney, with a […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • January 26, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: Sundance Film Festival Kicks Off Final Event in Park City; Third Coast Review Is On the Scene (and at the Movies)

    Third Coast Review film critics Steve Prokopy and Lisa Trifone are attending the 2026 Sundance Film Festival (which moves to Boulder, Colorado, next year), sharing their brief takes on festival […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • January 24, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: German Drama Sound of Falling Depicts Generations of Women and the Traumas, Confusion and Struggles of Their Varied Lives

    Towards the end of any given year, I find myself with a long list of films I want to see before the calendar flips over and not enough time to […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • January 21, 2026
    • Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmaker Ryan Prows on Making Night Patrol, Writing New Genre Rules and Crowning Justin Long as New Scream King

    I got back nearly 10 years with filmmaker Ryan Prows, whose 2017 debut film Lowlife is one of the most substantial calling-card movies I’ve seen in my years as a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 19, 2026
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