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Review: False Positive Uses Horror and Social Commentary to Explore Fertility, Pregnancy and Female Agency

False Positive

If you’re looking for a comedic partnership team who, between the two of them, have worked on such shows as Wonder Showzen, Inside Amy Schumer, The Heart, She Holler, and, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 25, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Compact, Focused Mary J Blige’s My Life Documentary Explores the Trauma, Inspiration of Artist’s Most Personal Album

    Mary J Blige My Life

    Less a life/career-spanning documentary biopic and more focusing on the work of art that set the stage for the career that followed, director Vanessa Roth’s Mary J Blige’s My Life […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 23, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Small Town Residents and Rumors Run Amok in Funny, Surprising Werewolves Within

    Werewolves Within

    As strange as it may seem, the video game-inspired horror comedy Werewolves Within is less about a monster terrorizing a small Vermont town in the dead of winter and more […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 23, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV

    Review: Summer of 85 Weaves Death Into a Seaside Love Affair

    How can you not love a story of young romance set in a candy-colored beach town in Le Treport, Normandy? All the ingredients are there. Gorgeous scenery. Two beautiful young […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 23, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: F9 is More Furious than Fast, an Overstuffed Entry in an Overlong Franchise

    F9

    Is it my imagination, or do most of the Fast & Furious movies spend about a third of their running times explaining or rewriting the events of previous installments? I […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 23, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Comedian Kevin Hart Aims for Something More Thoughtful, Gentle in Pleasantly Engaging Fatherhood

    Fatherhood

    For a guy who is considered a powerhouse one-man publicity machine, Kevin Hart surprised me by not being out promoting his latest work  yet. Fatherhood is a lighter drama with […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 18, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Pixar’s Luca Is a Sweet Family Story of Friendship, Loyalty and Wanting to Fit In

    Luca

    Ten years ago, ahead of the Pixar film Brave, I remember seeing a beautiful short called La Luna, about three generations of a family who were tasked with cleaning up […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 17, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV

    Preview: Chicago’s Documentary Film Festival DOC10 Returns with a Weekend of Must-See Non-Fiction Films

    Roadrunner

    After taking a year off due to the pandemic, Chicago’s premier documentary film festival, Doc10 (June 17-20), kicks off with one of the year’s most musically joyous offerings, Ahmir “Questlove” […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • June 16, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Aggressively Abrasive and Unfunny, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is Uncompromisingly Bad

    If you could obtain a copy of the screenplay for The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, I bet you’d discover that it was typed in ALL CAPS, with every sentence ending in […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 16, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: All Light, Everywhere Explores Bias, Perspective and Vision Throughout History and in Today’s Communities

    All Light Everywhere

    If it’s possible for a film to be both deeply meditative and startlingly evocative at the same time, All Light, Everywhere may just be that film. A documentary by Theo Anthony […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • June 11, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Sublet Is a Gentle, Funny Story of Temporary, Unexpected Friendship

    Sublet

    John Benjamin Hickey is one of those great actors whose name you might not recognize, but you’ll likely recognize his face immediately from dozens of film and TV roles (he’s […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 11, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Holler Captures the Desperation of a Dying Small Town and a Young Woman’s Chance to Break Out

    Holler

    Based on writer/director Nicole Riegel’s 2016 short film of the same name, Holler tells the story of Ruth Aery (Jessica Barden), a high schooler in a small, southern Ohio industrial […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 11, 2021
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