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Review: My Dead Friend Zoe Navigates Grief and Family Ties with Humor and Heart

It uses a strange but fairly effective film device to tell the story of a young Army veteran’s struggle with PTSD; My Dead Friend Zoe could be looked at as […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 26, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Riff Raff Draws on a Stacked Ensemble Cast including Ed Harris, Bill Murray and Jennifer Coolidge, for an Action Pic with Family Drama

    Filmmaker Dito Montiel has always worked on the outskirts of Hollywood yet has still found a way to pull together impressive casts for his humanistic stories, often about those living […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 26, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Interview

    Interview: Chicago-Made Filmspotting to Fulfill a 20-Year Dream With This Weekend’s Filmspotting Fest

    “A force for good in the universe.” This was filmmaker Rian Johnson’s decree on Filmspotting, Chicago’s premier movie talk show of the century. Born as Cinecast in 2005, just months […]

  • Anthony Miglieri
  • February 26, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: The Gorge Filmmaker Goes Long on Creating Monsters, What he Learned from James Cameron and Teases The Black Phone 2

    Filmmaker Scott Derrickson is something of a oddity in the movie-making world. He doesn’t seem to make movies with the intent of earning loads of money from them. I’m sure […]

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

    Review: Old Guy Is a Buddy Story for Hitmen Featuring a Cast Worth Watching

    Much like this week’s Cleaner, Old Guy is yet another film helmed by a once high-profile action director. This time, Simon West (Con Air, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, The Expendables […]

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

    Review: Daisy Ridley Stars in Cleaner, an Imperfect but Highly Watchable Actioner

    There is no rule that says that a blatant ripoff of a vastly superior film can’t still be fun, especially when its star seems more game than she’s ever been, […]

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

    Review: Osgood Perkins’ The Monkey Subverts Expectations and Offers Gory, Unpredictable Scares, Too

    With his previous film, Longlegs, director Osgood Perkins (The Blackcoat’s Daughter) opted for surreal, atmospheric horror that worked surprisingly well for a lot of people, especially those who don’t see […]

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

    Review: I Love You Forever Is the Anti-RomCom Millennials Crave

    I Love You Forever (Cazzie David and Elisa Kalani) was written by two millennials and it shows. These creators grew up with the epic romantic comedies of the ’90s and […]

  • Tory Crowley
  • February 13, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Captain America: Brave New World Packs a Lot of Story, But Feels Jumbled and Rushed

    If you only watch the Marvel movies and don’t mess with the adjacent Disney+ series, then the last time you saw Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) was when he was being […]

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

    Review: Kid Snow Is a Family Drama Disguised as a Boxing Movie 

    Kid Snow, the latest from Australian director Paul Goldman and writer John Brumpton, is marketed as a boxing movie. But it’s much more than that. It’s also a love story […]

  • Tory Crowley
  • February 13, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In a Charming Third Installment, Paddington in Peru Goes for Big Adventure Without Losing Its Heart

    He’s cute, curious and loves marmalade, and that’s all we really need to know about the bear Paddington in order to make his adventures in London so damn entertaining for […]

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

    Review: Miles Teller and Anya Taylor-Joy Star in The Gorge That’s Part Sci-Fi, Thriller, Creature-Feature and More

    Director Scott Derrickson (Sinister, Black Phone, Doctor Strange) is an established force in the horror space, but you always hope a filmmaker has aspirations in other genres as well. Well, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 13, 2025
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