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Review: Night Swim Boasts Strong Production Credits, but Its Plot and Scares Are Shallow

A slight and silly PG-13 horror film with a hefty pedigree (at least as far as producers go—James Wan and Jason Blum), Night Swim centers on the Waller family, with […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 5, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Jason Momoa Returns to the Water for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, a Fitting if Chaotic Sequel

    Considering the original Aquaman is the highest-grossing DC film of all time, it’s hard to understand why a sequel took five years since that film’s release to arrive. But a […]

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

    Review: Robot-Doll Thriller M3GAN is Also Surprisingly Smart and Funny

    The only big gripe I have about the new evil-robot thriller M3GAN is that there isn’t a single second of this movie where we don’t know that at some point […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 6, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Teen Slasher There’s Someone Inside Your House Gives Audiences a Reason to Care

    Someone Inside Your House

    Staying in the wheelhouse of horror films that focus on high schoolers, Netflix’s latest horror entry is There’s Someone Inside Your House, based on Stephanie Perkins’ New York Times best-selling […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 6, 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 , Review

    Review: The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It Replicates the Franchise’s Style But Lacks its Heart, Real Scares

    The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It

    In many ways, I consider the first two existing Conjuring movies the gold standard of horror movies. By casting Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson as real-life paranormal investigators Lorraine and […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 1, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Overly Complicated yet Impressively Brutal, Mortal Kombat Gets a Modern, Primal Reboot

    Mortal Kombat

    I’ve never played the Mortal Kombat video game (from Midway Games), nor have I revisited the 1995 film version since its original theatrical release. But I also didn’t live in […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 23, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Just Enough Scares in an Otherwise Weak The Curse of La Llorona

    Curse of La Llorona

    The greatest crime that the new James Wan-produced horror film The Curse of La Llorona commits is trying to link itself unnecessary to the universe of The Conjuring/Annabelle. Outside of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 19, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: DC’s Big, Bold Aquaman Isn’t a Masterpiece; It Is a Feast for the Eyes

    Aquaman

    Here’s the thing about the latest film based on a DC Comics superhero: it’s actually a lot of fun. Aquaman is not great—it’s barely even good—but it’s a great deal […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 20, 2018
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