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Review: The Old Guard 2 Gets a New Director, Updated Cast But Can’t Recapture the Momentum of the 2020 Original

One of the biggest early hits of the pandemic was Netflix’s 2020 film The Old Guard, based on the graphic novel by writer Greg Rucka and illustrator Leandro Fernandez. Charlize […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 4, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Franchise’s Seventh Entry, Jurassic World: Rebirth, Follows a Formula But Misses the Original’s Sense of Awe

    With seven films across more than three decades, the Jurassic Park/World installments have been all over the place in terms of quality, filmmaking prowess, and storytelling. But the elements that […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 4, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Familiar Touch, Supportive Care Workers Ease an Aging Woman’s Move to a New Life

    Ruth is a retired cook. As the film opens, she’s in her cozy kitchen preparing lunch for a guest, setting the table, and then getting dressed up. The guest is […]

  • Nancy S Bishop
  • June 27, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Actor Mariska Hargitay Turns to Filmmaking for My Mom Jayne, Excavating the Woman Behind Jayne Mansfield’s Legend

    A few documentaries of late have dealt with the children of famous people, searching for stories about a parent’s life because they have few or no memories of them. The idea […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 27, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Shifting from Horror to Action, Megan 2.0 Expands on the AI Concepts of the First Film

    Produced by genre titans James Wan and Jason Blum, and helmed by returning writer-director Gerald Johnstone, M3GAN 2.0 does something bold in the horror field: it shifts tones from the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 27, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In High-Speed Racing Drama F1, Brad Pitt Half-Heartedly Plays a Driver Past his Prime

    Let me begin by saying I’m not going to begrudge anyone fully embracing the Vroom Vroom of F1: The Movie for the simple fact that the car-racing sequences are one […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 27, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Filmmaker Rachel Elizabeth Seed Explores Her Photojournalist Mother’s Life, Work and More in Deeply Personal Documentary A Photographic Memory

    I’m perhaps most leery of documentaries in which the filmmaker is also, to a degree, the subject. Such is the case with Rachel Elizabeth Seed’s deeply personal film A Photographic […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 20, 2025
    • Film & TV , Review

    Review: With Elio, Pixar Launches a Charming Story of Family and Finding One’s Place—on Earth or in the Stars

    In the past, whenever Disney has given us a central character whose parents die in the early stages of the film, they are either left to fend for themselves (perhaps […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 20, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Bride Hard Marries Lifeless Action Sequences with Stale Comedy Starring Rebel Wilson and Oscar-Winner Da’Vine Joy Randolph

    I’m sure the elevator pitch for this one was something basic like “Bridesmaids meets Spy”—an action comedy starring Rebel Wilson as Sam, a highly effective secret agent who has buried […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 20, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Danny Boyle and Alex Garland Reteam to Revisit a Pandemic Wasteland in Gory yet Moving 28 Years Later

    Twenty-three years after director Danny Boyle and writer Alex Garland brought us the lo-fi, virus-fueled horror favorite 28 Days Later, the creative team reunites for a very different type of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 20, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Julianne Moore and Sydney Sweeney Star as Mother and Daughter in Echo Valley, A Taut, Character-Driven Drama

    Firmly in the realm of B-movies, director Michael Pearce’s (Beast, Encounter) Echo Valley is certainly elevated by the work of terrific and compelling actors, who consistently pick up the slack […]

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

    Review: In Live-Action Remake, How to Train Your Dragon is Much the Same, with Strong Cast and Familiar Beats

    To call live-action remakes of classic animated films a mixed bag is a wild understatement, but successful ones usually see the filmmakers actually put some thought and attention into what […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 13, 2025
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