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Review: Longtime Saturday Night Live Producer Lorne Michaels Remains an Enigma in Morgan Neville’s New Doc Lorne

As he does with all of his documentaries (including his one on Paul McCartney, Man on the Run, which was released mere weeks ago), director Morgan Neville tailors his latest […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • April 17, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Interview

    Interview: Lionel Boyce Talks Project Hail Mary, Filming The Bear in Chicago and Chasing Fear in His Next Roles

    Actor Lionel Boyce is likely best known by most Chicagoans as the kind-hearted pastry chef Marcus Brooks on the series The Bear, for which he received an Emmy nomination in […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 24, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: In Project Hail Mary, Ryan Gosling Plays the Sole Survivor on a Mission to Save the Sun

    Based on the wildly popular 2021 novel by Andy Weir (The Martian) and adapted by master genre storyteller Drew Godard (also The Martian, as well as The Cabin in the […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 20, 2026
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: A Love Song to Stunt Performers, The Fall Guy Is Not Much of a Movie Beyond Its Impressive Antics

    In this hit-you-over-the-head love letter to the stunt community of Hollywood, former stunt man, stunt coordinator and now director David Leitch (Deadpool 2, Atomic Blonde, Bullet Train, Hobbs & Shaw) […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • May 3, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest , Review

    Dispatch: SXSW Film & TV Festival Includes Three Major Actioners in Marquee Screenings, To Varying Degrees of Success

    This dispatch was written by guest author Zachary Lee. Action films dominated this year’s Headliners section at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in Austin, Texas. This dispatch reviews three […]

  • Zachary Lee
  • March 19, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Bursting with Color, Wit and Just a Bit Too Much Plot, Filmmaker Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Gives the Doll Depth

    Filmmaker Greta Gerwig is three for three. Her first film as director, Lady Bird, was a funny-because-it’s-true romp through teenage-dom, the epitome of an indie darling when it was released […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • July 18, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Ryan Gosling Is a Steely Assassin in Russo Brothers’ Action-Heavy The Gray Man

    I suppose it wouldn’t take that much of a suspension of belief to assume the government would hire professional killers to do its dirty work from time to time; I […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 22, 2022
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Sacrifice, Dedication and Perfection at the Heart of an Authentic First Man

    First Man

    You should know up front, First Man is not the story of a patriot or a hero or any other unnecessary labels people and history books have placed on astronaut […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • October 12, 2018
    • Film , Film & TV , Film fest

    Dispatch: Oscar Buzz Abounds at Toronto International Film Festival

    If Beale Street Could Talk

    In my first dispatch from Toronto International Film Festival, a selection of six films offered a diverse taste of the hundreds of films screened at the 2018 edition (which officially […]

  • Lisa Trifone
  • September 15, 2018
    • Feature , Film , Film & TV

    Film Review: La La Land, A Modern and Nuanced Take on the Classic Hollywood Musical

    Despite what you may have been led to believe, writer-director Damien (Whiplash) Chazelle’s La La Land is not some type of homage to the Hollywood musicals of old. It only […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • December 16, 2016
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