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Interview: Filmmaker Bing Liu on Preparation for the Next Life, Casting a Uyghur Lead Actor, and Telling Immigration Stories

Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker Bing Liu’s (Minding the Gap) latest film, Preparation for the Next Life, is about Uyghur migrant Aishe (newcomer Sebiye Behtiyar) living in New York City and […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 8, 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 , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: SXSW Film & TV Festival Includes Three Major Actioners in Marquee Screenings, To Varying Degrees of Success

    This dispatch was written by guest author Zachary Lee. Action films dominated this year’s Headliners section at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas. This dispatch reviews three […]

  • Zachary Lee
  • March 19, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Damien Chazelle Cobbles Together Babylon, Three-Plus Hours of Bombast, Ego and Decadence, and Calls it a Movie

    It’s said that one key to an artist’s success is knowing when to put down the paintbrush. Any work of art could go on and on, could be revised again […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 23, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Bullet Train Speeds By With Chaotic Action and Brad Pitt’s Under-Utilized Comedic Wit

    Did you ever have a friend who took one semester of Intro to Psychology and immediately started analyzing themselves and your lives like they wrote the damn textbook? So, that’s […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 2, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum Can’t Save a Half-Baked, Poorly Scripted The Lost City

    In a setup and general vibe that reminded me of films like Romancing the Stone, The Lost City tells the story of frustrated romance novelist Loretta Sage (Sandra Bullock), who […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 25, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Brad Pitt at His Best in a Visually Stunning Ad Astra

    Ad Astra

    It’s a helluva year to be Brad Pitt. He’ll go a couple years sometimes without making a movie, and then spring to life as he has this year with the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 18, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Revisits, Celebrates a Bygone Cinematic Era

    Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

    Like many works by Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is an exercise in creation and re-creation, often simultaneously, but never more so than in this love letter/death knell […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 23, 2019
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Allied, A Modern Classic Wartime Spy Thriller

    Done in a decidedly less flashy style than many of director Robert Zemeckis’ previous works (Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, The Walk), his World War II-set Allied successfully manages […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 23, 2016
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