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Review: With a Star-Studded Cast, The Russo Brothers’ The Electric State Is Fittingly Epic Yet Still Hollow

In terms of actual box office dollars, brothers and directors Anthony and Joe Russo have to be the most successful filmmaking team in history, with such hits as Captain America: […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 14, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Based on a True Story, Last Breath Builds Tension and Good Will as Ordinary Men Attempt the Extraordinary

    Based on the 2019 documentary of the same name, Last Breath (directed by Alex Parkinson, who co-directed the doc with Richard da Costa) tells the remarkable story of a trio […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 28, 2025
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Fly Me to the Moon Stars Channing Tatum and Scarlett Johansson in NASA Moon Landing as America’s Marketing Campaign

    Blending comedy, drama and a touch of historical fiction, director Greg Berlanti (Love, Simon and the showrunner of the CW’s Arrow-verse) sends us skyward with Fly Me to the Moon, […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • July 11, 2024
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Semi-Autobiographical Suncoast Offers an Uneven if Well-Intentioned Coming-of-Age Story

    In this strange, semi-autobiographical story from debut writer-director Laura Chinn, Suncoast tells the story of teenager Doris (Nico Parker), growing up in St. Petersburg, Florida, with her mother Kristine (Laura […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • February 10, 2024
    • Film & TV , Review , Television

    Recap: White House Plumbers (S1 Ep5) — A Great Finale Episode Questions What It Was All For

    “You’re just a patsy doing someone else’s jail time,” E. Howard Hunt’s (Woody Harrelson) daughter tells him. She’s sitting with her brother in a prison yard. Her father is in […]

  • Sam Layton
  • June 8, 2023
    • Film & TV , Review , Television

    Recap: White House Plumbers (S1 Ep4) — Hunt’s Family Takes Center Stage in a Solid Episode

    My most consistent and major gripe with the first three episodes of White House Plumbers is the insistence that the audience is supposed to care about Hunt’s (Woody Harrelson) family. […]

  • Sam Layton
  • June 8, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Television

    Recap: White House Plumbers (S1 Ep3) — Fun Yet Unfocused Episode Finally Gets Around to Watergate

    Will the leading men of White House Plumbers ever catch a break? After two episodes of buildup, the infamous Watergate heist (or heists, because as we see in “Don’t Drink […]

  • Sam Layton
  • May 30, 2023
    • Film & TV , Review , Television

    Recap: White House Plumbers (S1, Ep2) — Hunt and Liddy Move Up in the World, but Second Episode Feels Stagnant

    Gotta say, I’m a little disappointed. Though the White House Plumbers‘ premiere was flawed, I found it to be a pretty silly and fun introduction to this not-so-complicated story of […]

  • Sam Layton
  • May 19, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Television

    Recap: White House Plumbers (S1, Ep1) — Series Premiere Introduces the Idiots Behind Infamous Political Burglary

    The thing about governments that’s easy to forget is that they’re made up of people. It’s possible to think of them as nebulous shadow organizations that control everything and everyone, […]

  • Sam Layton
  • May 10, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Champions Gives Woody Harrelson (and Filmmaker Bobby Farrelly) a Predictable, if Well-Acted Redemption Story

    From Bobby Farrelly (Kingpin, There’s Something About Mary, Dumb and Dumber), the co-filmmaker of massive comedies that weren’t always sensitive to the developmentally disabled, the new film Champions feels like […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • March 10, 2023
    • Film , Film & TV , Review

    Review: Venom: Let There Be Carnage Makes Silly Work of Tom Hardy’s Marvel Super-Villain

    Venom Let There Be Carnage

    The best thing I can say about this sequel to 2018’s super-villain movie Venom is that Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a better movie than that sloppy, unfunny and ugly […]

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

    Review: World War II Battle on a Cinematic Scale in Midway

    Midway

    One thing you can always count on from the films of director Roland Emmerich is scale. Sure, there will also likely be explosions and a giant cast, but the man […]

  • Steve Prokopy
  • November 8, 2019
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