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Film Review: Dig Two Graves, Largely Unremarkable

The second feature from director/co-writer Hunter Adams (The Hungry Bull) is the kind of film that sneaks into a single screen somewhere in town and you wonder one of two […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 24, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: Life, A Solid B-movie With an A-list Cast

    A B-movie with a largely A-list cast, the science-fiction monster movie Life probably works best as a place holder until Alien: Covenant comes out in about two months. There’s a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 24, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: CHIPS, So Overpoweringly Unlikeable

    If I had to guess, I’d say that CHIPS writer-director-star Dax Shepard was going for an action comedy in the style of the Jump Street films but with even more […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 24, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: T2 Trainspotting, A Curious and Desperate Journey

    I’d certainly be within my rights to get long winded about the way director Danny Boyle uses clips from the original, 20-year-old Trainspotting to provide contrast between the drugged-out characters […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 24, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: The Belko Experiment, An Astonishingly Violent Take on Workplace Politics

    Although I was aware that the premise of The Belko Experiment involved a great deal of death and other bad behaviors, I wasn’t quite prepared for just how vicious and […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 17, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: Beauty and the Beast – A Murky, Mirror Image of Something Wonderful

    It’s one thing to take a familiar cinematic fairy tale and reinvent it or tell it from different perspective (such as Maleficent’s take on Sleeping Beauty, the more action-oriented Snow […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 17, 2017
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: My Life as a Zucchini, Exceptionally Heartfelt

    The last of the Oscar-nominated Best Animated Films titles to be released in the United States is the French work My Life as a Zucchini, from first-time feature director Claude […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 9, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: The Last Word, Held Together By A Nuanced Performance by Shirley MacLaine

    Judging a film based on a its trailer is something I’m quite vocal about avoiding. I live by the rule that trailers always get it wrong; even when they don’t, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 9, 2017
    • Film & TV , Review

    Kong: Skull Island. Not Like Any Version of the Kong Story We’ve Seen

    There are two things I’m very leary of these days in big-budget studio films. One is handing over a giant franchise or otherwise familiar property (like King Kong, for example) […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 8, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: Table 19, An Unfocused Mess

    Why does Anna Kendrick have such a difficult time finding material as good as she is? Of late, her best work seems to only be in films that allow her […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 3, 2017
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: Logan, An Epic Western Set in a Hopeless Future

    Through something like eight films leading up to Logan, Hugh Jackman has given us a few different versions of Wolverine, but they’ve all been rooted in the inherent threat that […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 3, 2017
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: Land of Mine, A Positively Terrifying Untold Tale of Retribution From World War II

    One of the four films that lost to The Salesman at the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film came from Denmark, a positively terrifying post-World War II suspense work […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 3, 2017
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