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Review: Songbird Imagines the Next COVID Pandemic in Dull, Tasteless Terms

Songbird

When the trailer for the Michael Bay-produced Songbird dropped, there was a loud chorus of “No” heard round the world. Set just a few years in the future and in […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 11, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Political Intrigue, Human Drama and Forensic Investigation Collide in Gripping Assassins

    Assassins

    With more than our own fair share of political headaches to navigate the last four years, you’d be forgiven for not following the saga around the 2017 assassination of North […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 11, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review , Uncategorized

    Review: Ryan Murphy’s Film Version of The Prom Is All Sequins and No Real Heart

    The Prom

    In what may just hold the record for stage-to-screen adaptations, Ryan Murphy brings to Netflix a gaudy, busy, over-the-top film version of The Prom, the surprisingly well-received Broadway show that […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 11, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: An Irish Romantic Comedy, Wild Mountain Thyme Brings Heart and Affection to its Unusual Characters

    Wild Mountain Thyme

    If you have trouble figuring out the century in which Wild Mountain Thyme takes place, I don’t think you’ll be alone. The latest film from writer/director John Patrick Shanley (Joe […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 10, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: As B-Movies Go, Archenemy Is a Jolt to the System

    Archenemy

    I will always give points for weird, but there’s a fine line between weird and aimless. I’ll fully admit to being a certain level of captivated by writer/director Adam Egypt […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 10, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Old Friends Navigate Stormy Waters in Steven Soderbergh’s Largely Improvised Let Them All Talk

    Let Them All Talk

    Director Steven Soderbergh continues to enjoy (and thrive in) his un-retirement with such works as Logan Lucky, Unsane, High Flying Bird and the rare misstep The Laundromat, last year’s ensemble […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 9, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Spoiler-Free Christmas Documentary, Dear Santa Is Full of the Holiday Spirit We All Need Right Now

    Dear Santa

    Often the lone voice of reason amidst the government’s confused and insufficient response to the pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci (director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) recently […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 4, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: An Aging Rocker Recounts His Heavy-Drinking, Hard-Partying Days in Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane MacGowan

    Crock of Gold

    It takes a certain kind of person to become a rockstar. There’s talent involved, of course; one has to have that innate ability to perform, the skill to play an […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 4, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Another Round Deftly Explores the Fine, Slightly Drunk Line Between Youth and Aging, Meaning and Irrelevance

    Another Round

    There was a time in my life when I was obsessed with Danish cinema; it began in the late 1990s, when the Dogme 95 movement began, but it lasted well […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 4, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Sense of Place and History in Deeply Affecting Luxor

    Luxor

    The story is fairly straightforward and deceptively simple, but the emotions are complex, separating writer/director Zeina Durra’s Luxor from other travelogues disguised as movies. Durra (The Imperialists Are Still Alive!) […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 4, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Cancer Love Story, All My Life Manages to Suck the Life Out of Every Tone-Deaf Moment

    All my Life

    Let me lay out this infuriating exercise as simply as I can: All My Life is based on the true story of young couple Jennifer and Solomon—played by Jessica Rothe […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 4, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Sound of Metal Charts the Painful, Inspiring Journey of a Musician Losing His Hearing

    Sound of Metal

    In what might be one of the coolest opening sequences of the year, the beginning of Sound of Metal sees Riz Ahmed’s Ruben drum as if his life depends on […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 4, 2020
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