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Review: Anne Hathaway Arrives as a RomCom Heroine in Steamy if Predictable The Idea of You

For women in Hollywood, aging is not the easiest thing to do. Often, the mere act of passing time and surviving is enough to tank a woman’s career, particularly when […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • May 3, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Aiming for a Smart, Contemporary Rom-Com, She Came to Me Comes Up Disappointingly Lacking

    Some years ago, at the height of their respective careers, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence starred in a movie called Serena. It’s likely you’ve never seen it, or if you […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • October 6, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Sundance Review: Female Friendship and Film Noir Combine in a Savage, Atmospheric Eileen

    One of the higher-profile works at Sundance this year (at least in terms of star power) was director William Oldroyd’s (Lady Macbeth) noir-ish tale of a female friendship gone horribly […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 10, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: James Gray’s Armageddon Time Lacks the Filmmaker’s Visual Style and, Apparently, a Moral Compass

    With its misguided heart in the right place, but making all the wrong choices when it comes to executing this story of a young Jewish boy growing up Queens, New […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 4, 2022
    • Review , Stages , Theater

    Review: New Musical The Devil Wears Prada Needs More Tailoring Before It’s Runway Ready

    Making its pre-Broadway world premiere in Chicago this month, the new musical version of Lauren Weisberger’s (and the 2006 film adaptation) The Devil Wears Prada has the feel of a […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • August 8, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Set in March 2020, Locked Down Is Life in a Pandemic with a Witty Script

    Locked Down

    I’m sure we’ll get a slow but steady stream of films shot during the pandemic that actually embrace the visuals of the event, like Zoom calls, interiors with a small […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 14, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Over-Acted and Over-Produced, Remake of Roald Dahl’s The Witches Fails to Capture Any Magic

    The Witches

    The first thing you notice about the new, Robert Zemeckis-directed adaptation of the classic Roald Dahl novel The Witches is that the focus is on the children, who are very […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 21, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Dark Waters Is an Eye-Opening Activist Drama with an Impressive Central Performance

    Although the late fall is certainly known for being the place where hard-hitting dramas, ripe for awards consideration, often land, I don’t think I was quite prepared for just how […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 27, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Anne Hathaway Forces the Funny Out of The Hustle

    The Hustle

    This one made me a little depressed, and it did so because it made me realize that one of the more reliable actors working today (and a personal favorite) is […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 10, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Serenity Serves Up Too Much Style and Not Enough Substance

    Serenity

    This one might literally be too difficult to dissect even a bit without running the risk is confusing you or unintentionally ruining something. The truth is, I can hear the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 24, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Bold and Thrilling, Ocean’s 8 Crackles with Energy

    Oceans 8

    There’s a scene early on in Ocean’s 8 when Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) is laying out her grand jewelry heist scheme and she rejects the idea of including any men as […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 6, 2018
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Film Review: Colossal, A Smart and Wildly Imaginative Giant Monster Movie

    I love the way the mind of writer-director Nacho Vigalondo works. He selects a genre that he clearly loves and wonders “What if we took the tropes of this type […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 14, 2017
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