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Review: A New Entry in the Bad Boys Franchise is Stuck in the Past

Bad Boys for Life

Despite the fact that Bad Boys for Life (the third Bad Boys movie, for those counting, and the first since 2003) is meant to focus on its lead characters getting […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • January 15, 2020
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Smart, Fun and Expertly Crafted, Knives Out Invites Repeat Viewing

    Knives Out

    With all of his films, writer/director Rian Johnson does something rather remarkable: he takes a genre he loves and studies it until he understands all of its working parts. He […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 27, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Flickers of Interesting Moments in Re-cut The Current War

    The Current War

    On the surface, it would make sense that premier inventor Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) and industrialist George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) should have spent some part of their careers working together—creating […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 26, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Elizabeth Chomko and Robert Forster on Coming of Age and Coming Back to Chicago for What They Had

    What They Had

    What They Had is about a lot of things, most of which are related to a family’s inability to talk about medical care, but also bigger-picture drama like the inability […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 8, 2018
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Chicagoan Elizabeth Chomko’s What They Had Is So Polished It Shines

    What They Had

    What They Had is a wonderful film. There’s no use burying the lede on Chicagoan Elizabeth Chomko’s writing and directing debut. The script won the Academy’s Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • October 26, 2018
    • 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
    • Film , Film & TV , Review , Uncategorized

    Film Review: Guillermo del Toro Delivers a Cinematic Miracle in The Shape of Water

    There’s a sequence somewhere in the middle of director and co-writer Guillermo del Toro’s latest, The Shape of Water, in which the world turns black-and-white for just a couple of […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 7, 2017
    • Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: Nocturnal Animals, Absolutely Stunning

    After his impressive directing debut A Single Man in 2009, fashion designer Tom Ford’s long awaited return as writer-director, Nocturnal Animals, shows that Ford is not afraid of a complicated, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 18, 2016
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