Author: Mark Tapio Kines ^{p. 13}

I often complain when a sci fi/action blockbuster takes a story that could build up to something major, but instead settles into a low-stakes third act in...

Indie “it” boy Domhnall Gleeson is Caleb, a shy programmer at a Google-like corporation called Bluebook who has won a company-wide contest to...

Isn’t it nice to see Pixar back on top again?  Inside Out Directed by Pete Docter – 2015 Reviewed by Mark Tapio Kines The stunning critical and...

This is the very definition of “summer counter-programming”: in the middle of 2015’s array of superhero movies, dinosaur blockbusters and the...

This is the season when most Americans take their vacations. Here are 9 tips to help you have a smooth and pleasant summer vacation. By Mark Tapio Kines I have...

MOVIE REVIEW↓ I feel like a broken record this year: An original science fiction movie comes out, critics pan it, audiences are indifferent, I see it anyway,...

This entertaining if disposable follow-up to the 2012 blockbuster is a triumph of, well, let’s call it “story engineering”. Avengers: Age of...

MOVIE REVIEW↓ Critics, fanboys, and audiences alike have been very fickle about Neill Blomkamp – adoring his out-of-nowhere debut District 9, predictably...

In 2013, I had a fruitless meeting with a talent agent, who told me to “get on Twitter, follow some showbiz people you admire, tweet at them, and your...

I don’t know how to not make this sound creepy, but I have a “director’s crush” on Mae Whitman. Though I don’t exactly find...

Michael Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, a once-popular Hollywood actor best known for playing a fictional superhero named Birdman. It’s been some 20 years...

A buddy of mine once asked some friends each to send him two songs for a personalized mix CD people could “get it on” to. I guess if you’re randy enough,...

People have been hate-watching Jupiter Ascending even before it was released. It’s as if the real anticipation hasn’t been over the film itself,...

Boyhood, as you may have heard, is a special film because it was shot over the course of a 12-year period with the same cast and much of the same crew....

This, the third slice of spooky whimsy from Laika, the Oregon-based stop-motion animation studio who gave us Coraline and ParaNorman, is simultaneously more of...

Whiplash has been earning raves ever since it debuted at Sundance 2014, where it won both the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award. All these months later,...