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Review: Animated Origin Story Transformers One Brings Heart and Character Depth to Robot Franchise

I’m just the age where Transformers of any kind (the Hasbro toys, animated series, the many movies) didn’t really have much of an impact on me. As a result, familiar […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 20, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Furiosa Accomplishes a Rare Feat, Delivering an Action-Packed Epic and Compelling Origin Story

    I’m often skeptical of prequels that reveal what is essentially the origin story of a major character. Horror franchises attempt this a lot, and it almost never works. Knowing where […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 24, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Sequel to a Standard-Issue Actioner, Extraction 2 Goes for Longer Fight Scenes and More Backstory

    The first Extraction film was an interesting animal. Back then, I rarely watched made-for-Netflix movies, unless they happened to also run in theaters, which was rare when this film was […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 15, 2023
    • Film & TV , Review

    Review: Chris Hemsworth Is Sinister and Polished in Spiderhead, But the Film Dances Around Bigger Issues

    Spiderhead is a fim adapted from Escape From Spiderhead, a New Yorker short story by George Saunders.

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 19, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Part Reboot, Part Sequel, Men In Black: International Doesn’t Add Anything to the Franchise

    Men in Black International

    The Men In Black movies don’t make up a particularly good franchise. The first film from 1997 was a terrific original idea about the hide-in-plain-sight tactics of a secret organization […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 14, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The End is Here in Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame

    Avengers: Endgame

    This is a nearly impossible review to write, because it’s so wholly satisfying that the inclination is to leave even the smallest plot elements a surprise for those who have […]

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

    Film Review: 12 Strong Is Not Your Average War Film; It’s Better

    In the immediate aftermath of 9/11, there was that rare sense across not just America but the globe that there was a common enemy in the Taliban. According to fairly […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 17, 2018
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