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Film Review: The Founder, The Morally Ambiguous Beginning of a Supersized Chicago Icon

In the spirit of the original McDonald’s brothers restaurant, I’m going to make this quick. The Founder is the story of Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), a traveling salesman, who stumbled […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 20, 2017
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film reviews: XXX: Return of Xander Cage, Split

    XXX: RETURN OF XANDER CAGE You can’t keep a good Vin Diesel franchise down, any more than you can keep a Vin Diesel character dead for longer than one movie. […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 19, 2017
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: Ocean Waves, A Rediscovered Studio Ghibli Gem

    Following last year’s first official U.S. release of 1991’s Only Yesterday, the famed Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli is rounding out its unreleased (stateside, at least) titles with the 1993 […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 13, 2017
    • Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Claire in Motion, Devastating Drama

    The setup is fairly straightforward even if the purpose is elusive. The latest film from directing team Lisa Robinson and Annie J. Howell (2011’s Small, Beautifully Moving Parts) concerns Claire […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 13, 2017
    • Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened…, Dreams Shattered Then Realized

    When I interviewed La La Land writer-director Damien Chazelle a couple months ago for Ain’t it Cool News, we discussed one of the film’s themes being the power of rejection […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 13, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: 20th Century Women, Mostly Awful

    A few years ago, writer-director Mike Mills (Thumbsucker) made a touching and uproarious film that was both a tribute to his father and all fathers called Beginners, which resulted in […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 13, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Monster Trucks, Hopelessly Misguided

    Whatever you think this movie is about probably isn’t exactly right. If, based on the trailer, you think it’s about a monster who takes up residence inside a high school […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 13, 2017
    • Film , Film & TV

    Film Reviews: Live by Night, Patriots Day, Bye Bye Man

    LIVE BY NIGHT I’ll admit, I was confused even by the title of this film, since most of the action takes place in sunny Florida. But as I got deeper […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 12, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Train to Busan, Fueled by Pure Adrenaline

    One of the last films I watched in 2016 (and it managed to crack my Top 20 of the year in the process) was South Korean horror thrill ride Train […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 6, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review – Mifune: The Last Samurai, An Exciting Portrait of One of the World’s Best Actors

    One of my favorite documentaries of 2016 was also about one of my personal heroes from way back. The film is director Steven Okazaki’s Mifune: The Last Samurai about the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 6, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Notes on Blindness, An Eerie Journey From Light to Darkness and Back Again

    Much like the memoir that inspired it, Notes on Blindness (from co-directors James Spinney and Peter Middleton) attempts the seemingly impossible, especially for a visual art form: to capture the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 6, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: A Monster Calls, An Evocative and Mature Modern Fairy Tale

    There are children’s films, and then there are films with children in them that seem more geared toward adults. Spanish-born director J.A. Bayona seems to specialize in the latter, with […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 6, 2017
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