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Review: For Its Tenth Film, the Fast & Furious Franchise Mostly Retreads Old Vendettas (and Car Chases)

The Fast & Furious movies have now entered their third decade as a franchise, and we still have one or two of these monsters left (depending on who you listen […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 19, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Settlers‘ Sofia Boutella on Imagining Life on Mars, the Choreography of Fight Scenes and What Madonna Taught Her

    Settlers

    Algerian-born actress Sofia Boutella has had many occupations in her nearly 20-year career. After years of training in nearly every style of dance, her big break came when she was […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 27, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: F9 is More Furious than Fast, an Overstuffed Entry in an Overlong Franchise

    F9

    Is it my imagination, or do most of the Fast & Furious movies spend about a third of their running times explaining or rewriting the events of previous installments? I […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 23, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Music

    Review: The Old Guard Is a Grown-Up Action Flick with a Ferocious Kick

    The Old Guard

    First published in 2017, the highly popular Image comic series (and later graphic novel) The Old Guard concerns a small group (meaning four) of immortal warriors who live in secret, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 9, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Jay Roach on Conflicts, Costumes and Creating a Character for Bombshell

    Bombshell Jay Roach

    For some, it may be tough to reconcile the idea that Jay Roach, the same man who directed all three Austin Powers films and both Meet the Parents movies, also […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 24, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review , Uncategorized

    Review: By Over-Simplifying the Narrative, Bombshell Misses Its Mark

    Bombshell

    In the throes of the 2016 presidential campaign, as a nation geared up to elect a sexual predator, women in entertainment began speaking up and out against the bad actors […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • December 20, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Halloween Comes Early in a New, Animated The Addams Family

    The Addams Family

    The first thing I noticed about this new iteration of The Addams Family is that the characters look a lot like the original iteration of the Charles Addams’ cartoon series […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 11, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV

    Review: Long Shot Isn’t Afraid to Be Both Silly and Serious

    Imagine a comedy set in the world where a woman becoming president isn’t the butt of most of the jokes—how refreshing. In fact, in the new film Long Shot, the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 3, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Charlize Theron Delivers Some of Her Best Work in a Magical Tully

    Tully

    To discuss Tully, the new collaboration between screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman (the two made Juno and Young Adult previously) is to take away a little bit of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 3, 2018
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