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Dispatch: As Sundance Film Festival Winds Down, On-Screen Discoveries Abound

Enjoy our latest dispatch from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival…. Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! If Sundance Film Festival is about discoveries, a film like Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! Surely fits […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • February 5, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: As Sundance Film Festival Continues, Established Filmmakers Bring New Works to Audiences

    Enjoy our latest dispatch from the 2026 Sundance Film Festival…. Frank & Louis Swiss filmmaker Petra Volpe makes a poignant and impressive English-language debut with Frank & Louis, the story […]

  • Third Coast Review Staff
  • January 29, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmaker Derek Cianfrance on the Wild True Story of Roofman, Fact-Checking the Details and Building a Toys “R” Us

    Editor’s Note: the following may contain small spoilers for the film Roofman. Filmmaker Derek Cianfrance is best known for a string of very serious, very grown-up films that explore the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 13, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Channing Tatum Is at His Career Best in Moving, Human True-Life Story Roofman

    Director/co-writer Derek Cianfrance (Blue Valentine, The Place Beyond the Pines, The Light Between Oceans) is careful at the beginning of his latest work, Roofman, to tell us “This is a […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 10, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Filmmaker Macon Blair on Remaking Toxic Avenger for a New Era, Casting Peter Dinklage and a Possible Sequel

    It’s been nearly two years to the day when I first saw the extremely fun and excessively gory remake of arguably the most famous of all of Troma Entertainment’s cinematic […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • September 5, 2025
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    Review: In Wicked Part One, a Beloved Stage Musical Gets a Dazzling, if Filler-Heavy, Adaptation

    We want to hear from you! Take our brief reader survey now and share your feedback on what you love at Third Coast Review—and what we could be doing better! Plus, everyone […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 21, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes Offers a Music-Heavy Hunger Games Prequel on an Epic Scale

    By all accounts, the film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ Hunger Games prequel novel The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is a fairly faithful one, so if that’s all you care […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 16, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Aiming for a Smart, Contemporary Rom-Com, She Came to Me Comes Up Disappointingly Lacking

    Some years ago, at the height of their respective careers, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence starred in a movie called Serena. It’s likely you’ve never seen it, or if you […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • October 6, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Solid Action Flick, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts Brings a Long-Anticipated Crew to the Big Screen

    Sometimes, a gifted director, a shorter runtime, and a unstoppable period soundtrack is all you need to pivot a franchise in the right direction. For the Transformers universe, the previous […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • June 8, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: With Laborious Music and Stodgy, Static Filmmaking, Cyrano Is Another Joe Wright Disappointment

    I’ve been here before. Where exactly? Oh, just the land of disappointment. Have you met our mayor, Joe Wright? On the heels of triumphant accomplishments like Atonement, Pride & Prejudice […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • February 25, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: With a Bad Case of a Split-Personality, I Care A Lot Makes it Hard to Care About Much At All

    I Care A Lot

    Another offering this week that features shitty people doing shitty things to less fortunate people is writer/director J Blakeson’s I Care A Lot, in which Rosamund Pike plays professional, court-appointed […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 19, 2021
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Unremarkable Storytelling of The Croods: A New Age is Elevated by a Funny, Energetic Cast

    The Croods

    The Croods movies were always a little smarter than they let on, probably because the characters themselves are meant to seem…something less than intelligent. Of course, it helps that these […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 25, 2020
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