Steve Capone, Jr

Steve Capone, Jr Pro

Writer, Editor-in-Chief of Whisper House Press, and Educator in Utah of the USA.

Favorite films

  • The Dark Knight
  • 1917
  • Skyfall
  • The Biggest Little Farm

Recent activity

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  • The Open House

  • Sinister

    ★★★★

  • The Monkey

    ★★★★

  • Elevation

    ★★

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  • Rabbit Trap

    Rabbit Trap

    ★★★½

    Film Title: Rabbit Trap

    Director: Bryn Chainey

    Screenwriter: Bryn Chainey

    Production Companies: SpectreVision, Align, Bankside Films

    Release Date (USA, Sundance): January 24, 2025

    Capone’s Rating: 3.5⭐ out of 5⭐

    Folk horror enters the home in Bryn Chainey’s Rabbit Trap, an atmospheric bit of phantasmagoria that debuted at Sundance two weeks ago. Ethereal sounds, environmental patterns, and body-centric motifs are the palette from which the creator settles us, holds us, and then drops us.

    As usual for this festival, I knew…

  • 2000 Meters to Andriivka

    2000 Meters to Andriivka

    ★★★★★

    Film Title: 2,000 Meters to Andriivka / 2000 метрів до Андріївки
    Director: Mstyslav Chernov
    Production Companies:
    Release Date (USA, Sundance): January 23, 2025
    Awards (as of 2/7/25): Winner: Director (in World Cinema Documentary category); Nominated: Grand Jury Prize (in World Cinema Documentary category)
    Capone’s Rating: 5⭐ out of 5⭐
    Review CW: scenes of death and war described in detail

    2,000 Meters to Andriivka is upsetting because the reality it depicts so clearly is upsetting. That world—the front lines of Ukrainian…

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  • The Thing with Feathers

    The Thing with Feathers

    ★★★★½

    Film Title: The Thing With Feathers
    Director: Dylan Southern
    Screenwriter: Dylan Southern
    Based on: Grief is the Thing With Feathers (Max Porter)
    Production Companies: MK2
    Release Date (USA, Sundance): January 25, 2025
    Capone’s Rating: 4.5⭐ out of 5⭐
    Principal Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall
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    I have to get something off my chest.

    Most modern horror fans might take issue with it, but I need to say it.

    I’ve about had it with trauma horror. Protagonists’ whose core…

  • Malum

    Malum

    ★★★

    Pretty spooky. Not up my ally, really. I go for psychological horror, and there are a lot of jump scares combined with supernatural horror here. But I do like a good cult story. This was sorta that, as a shock-driver.