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Review: In Remaking a 2019 Thriller, Locked Relies Too Heavily on Stars Anthony Hopkins and Bill Skarsgård to Drive the Drama

A remake of the 2019 Argentinian thriller 4×4 (and now adapted by Michael Arlen Ross), Locked tells the very stripped-down story of down-on-his-luck petty criminal Eddie (Bill Skarsgård) trying to […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 21, 2025
    • Classical , Features , Film , Music , Reviews , Venues

    Review: Music and Movie Elevate the Love Story of Bram Stoker’s Dracula

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Kathy D. Hey
  • November 13, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Post-War Drama One Life Recounts One Ordinary Man’s Extraordinary Efforts and Their Generational Ripple Effects

    Based on the book If It’s Not Impossible?: The Life of Sir Nicholas Winton by Barbara Winton, One Life is a true story about an elderly man who is forced […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 15, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Imagining a Philosophical Conversation, Freud’s Last Session Frustrates More than it Fascinates

    Part of the issue with director and co-writer Matt Brown’s Freud’s Last Session is that it can’t decide what the central core of its story actually is. Certainly, a film […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 8, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Rebel Moon Part One: A Child of Fire, Zack Snyder Goes Inter-Galactic, with Plenty of Slo-Mo and Special Effects

    If I’m understanding the stories behind the creation of the latest opus from filmmaker Zack Snyder, it was conceived as a possible Star Wars movie. For whatever reason, that didn’t […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 22, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: First The Father, Now The Son Grapples with Family Dynamics, Depression and Doing What’s Best for Our Children

    From the French-born writer/director who brought us The Father a couple years back, Florian Zeller unveils The Son, based on his play of the same name (as was The Father […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 16, 2022
    • 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
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: An Assassin, A Man-Hunt and a Glimpse of Anthony Hopkins’ Greatness in Otherwise Middling The Virtuoso

    The Virtuoso

    This is an odd, although not entirely unpleasant, one. Anson Mount plays a professional assassin known only as The Virtuoso (in the credits, at least; I don’t think he’s ever […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 30, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Father Brings an Emotional and Stirring Story to Screen with Heartrending Results

    The Father

    It’s not always easy to adapt for the screen a work originally written for the stage, and the degree to which any such adaptation is successful relies on both the […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • March 12, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest

    Dispatch: Year’s Most Anticipated Films Round out Toronto Film Festival

    Honey Boy

    After six full days at a film festival where each day includes screening at least four films (and sometimes more), all the stories, characters and directing styles can start to […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • September 12, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Love, Antosha Chronicles a Life Fully Lived, Lost Too Soon

    Love, Antosha

    Twice in 2011, I was fortunate enough to have met actor Anton Yelchin, and I can vouch for the fact that he could talk your ear off about all manner […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 30, 2019
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