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Review: My Dead Friend Zoe Navigates Grief and Family Ties with Humor and Heart

It uses a strange but fairly effective film device to tell the story of a young Army veteran’s struggle with PTSD; My Dead Friend Zoe could be looked at as […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 26, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Zach Braff on Writing A Good Person for Florence Pugh, Casting Morgan Freeman and Processing Tremendous Grief

    New Jersey-born, Northwestern-educated (with a degree in film) Zach Braff is probably known by many for his comedic acting in films such as Manhattan Murder Mystery, The Broken Hearts Club, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 5, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Though it Lacks Dramatic Tension, Zach Braff’s A Good Person Features Some Good Acting

    As a writer/director, Zach Braff tends toward the lighter side of dramas with works like Garden State and Wish I Was Here, but with his latest effort, A Good Person, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 24, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Sidney, a Singular Artist and Activist of Our Time Gets His Due

    Aside from being a terrific, award-winning actor and a talented director (particularly of comedies), Sidney Poitier was a man in the right place at the right time. Or at least […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 23, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Paradise Highway Features a Strong Cast But a Loose Grip on the Horrors of Human Trafficking

    In a week filled with oddities at the movie theater, few are stranger in my mind than the feature debut from writer/director Anna Gutto, Paradise Highway, which features two Academy […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 29, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Aggressively Abrasive and Unfunny, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is Uncompromisingly Bad

    If you could obtain a copy of the screenplay for The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard, I bet you’d discover that it was typed in ALL CAPS, with every sentence ending in […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 16, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Studio Mogul’s Career, Life and Influence Seems Endless (and Endlessly Impressive) in Laddie

    Laddie

    Alan Ladd Jr. was born into show business, as a certain percentage of those who work in the film industry are. They use their familial connections to work their way […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 28, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Ruby Rose Is Perhaps the Only Good Element In Her Latest Action Flick, Vanquish

    Vanquish

    By no means would I ever try to sell you on the idea that action movie staple Ruby Rose (John Wick: Chapter 2, The Meg, The Doorman) is a great […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 16, 2021
    • 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 […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • August 30, 2019
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: There’s Little Holiday Joy—And Even Less Sense—in Disney’s The Nutcracker and The Four Realms

    The Nutcracker

    It took two people to direct this movie. And not two unknown directors who might have been easily manipulated by the studio, but two talented, established filmmakers—very different filmmakers who […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 1, 2018
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