Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Disney Makes a Wish in New Family Musical That Fails to Shine

There is a lot that doesn’t work in Disney Animation’s latest original effort, Wish, but the main culprit is a plot that never clicks into place. The stakes never really […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Leans into Nerddom, Nostalgia and Humor for an Epic Adventure

I’m sure a lot of people who review this latest attempt at a Dungeons & Dragons movie are going to feel the need to tell you their history with the […]

Steve Prokopy /
Film, Film & TV, Review

Review: All the Old Knives Gives Chris Pine a Perfectly Serviceable CIA Thriller

From his old-school military-style actioner last week with The Contractor, to this week’s old-school political whodunit in All the Old Knives, Chris Pine is building up a mildly enjoyable filmography […]

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Review: Chris Pine Gets Intense as a Mercenary Trying to Solve a Mystery in The Contractor

Taking a crack at a bare-bones action-thriller B-movie, Chris Pine (Star Trek, Wonder Woman) plays Special Forces Sgt. James Harper in The Contractor. He finds himself in trouble with the […]

Steve Prokopy /
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Review: Without Much to Motivate It or Inspire Us, Wonder Woman 1984 Ultimately Disappoints

There are so many reasons the long-awaited sequel to the groundbreaking Wonder Woman is genuinely bad that I need to start by simply listing them: writing, editing, acting, directing, logic, […]

Steve Prokopy /
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 […]

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Review: Comic Book Worlds Collide in Creative, Ambitious and Totally Wonderful Into the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man

This animated take on the adventures of Spider-Man is so visually and creatively daring, one can’t help but wish that all superhero movies took an equally ambitious path to the […]

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Film, Film & TV, Review

Film Review – Wonder Woman, A Long Overdue Icon Victoriously Takes Center Stage

We could tell even from her abbreviated appearance in Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice that Wonder Woman was going to be a major player in the DC cinematic universe […]

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