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Review: Based on Stephen King’s Classic Story, The Boogeyman is Equal Parts Horror Film, Family Drama

Part adaptation of and sequel to the Stephen King-penned short story of the same name, The Boogeyman takes the confessional approach of the written plot (a distraught patient talking to […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 1, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse Is a Fast-Paced Sequel with Stunning Animation and a Star-Studded Voice Cast

    To many, the 2018 animated Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse is the finest of all Spider-Man movies (and there are many to choose from), with its frenetic energy, mixed-media animation style, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 31, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Father and Son Sebastian and Salvo Maniscalco on Making About My Father, Meeting “Bob” De Niro and the Chicago Work Ethic

    Sometime during 2006, I was asked to moderate a couple Q&A screenings of the documentary Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days and 30 Nights – Hollywood to the Heartland, a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 31, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh on Making Kandahar with Gerard Butler, War Movies as Character Studies and a Greenland Sequel

    Director Ric Roman Waugh had nearly 50 projects under his belt as a stuntman and stunt coordinator before turning to directing (much like his brother, director Scott Waugh). After a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 31, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Television

    Recap: Succession (S4, Ep9) — Penultimate Episode Explores the Siblings’ Feelings, Sets up the Endgame

    When Kendall (Jeremy Strong) gets up to speak at his father’s funeral in “Church and State,” there’s a sense that he could say anything. The relationship between Kendall and Logan […]

  • Sam Layton
  • May 31, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Reality, Sidney Sweeney Brings a Real-Life Interrogation to Captivating, Suspenseful Film Experience

    Coming into the new HBO production Reality, I had virtually no idea what this tense little slice of reality was about, or that it was essentially a re-creation of one […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 30, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Television

    Recap: White House Plumbers (S1 Ep3) — Fun Yet Unfocused Episode Finally Gets Around to Watergate

    Will the leading men of White House Plumbers ever catch a break? After two episodes of buildup, the infamous Watergate heist (or heists, because as we see in “Don’t Drink […]

  • Sam Layton
  • May 30, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Family Comedy About My Father Works Best When It Doesn’t Try Quite So Hard to Be Funny

    While the new film starring and co-written by stand-up comedian Sebastian Maniscalco, About My Father, is a decidedly average autobiographical comedy, as a story of the unbreakable bond between a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 28, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Kandahar Is Less Action Pic, More a Statement on the Futility of War

    The third film from the director-actor combo of Ric Roman Waugh and Gerard Butler (Angel Has Fallen, Greenland) is a messy, chaotic work about the messy, chaotic way that modern […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 28, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Its Latest Live-Action Adaptation, Disney Drains The Little Mermaid of All Its Magic, Charm

    The 1989 animated feature film The Little Mermaid ushered in a new golden era of Disney’s storied animation legacy. A sanitized version of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fable about a […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • May 26, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: With a Compelling Central Performance, Influencer Makes the Instagram Life a Dangerous Career Choice

    In ways that probably won’t make any sense unless you actually see Influencer, the new film by director Kurtis David Harder (Spiral, Summerland) about popular social media figures has a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 26, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Exorcism in Utero Plays Its Horror, Comedy Too Silly to Be Truly Scary

    Marking his feature film debut, writer/director Erik Skybak brings us the tantalizingly titled Exorcism In Utero, about Herma Frigg (Sam Bangs), a young pregnant woman fresh out of a bad […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 23, 2023
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