Author: Mark Tapio Kines ^{p. 14}

It was one of those so-random-you-can’t-make-it-up moments in history: In 1984, while UK coal miners were striking against Margaret Thatcher’s...

  Domhnall Gleeson plays Jon, a naive would-be songwriter who rather abruptly – and randomly – is asked to join an avant garde band called...

John Lithgow and Alfred Molina play Ben and George, a long-term gay couple in Manhattan who finally get married, after same-sex marriage laws pass in the state....

Back during my Marvel Comics-reading days, when I was what you’d now call a “tween”, I’d catch fleeting references to the Guardians of...

  This sequel to the, uh, prequel (to what, exactly?) Rise of the Planet of the Apes – and in retrospect, they should have named the previous film...

I wish this movie had a better name. Its working title, All You Need Is Kill – like the Japanese novel on which it’s based – is no better, but Edge of...

After seeing the difficulties his countrymen had with their own English language debuts – Kim Jee-woon’s reviled Schwarzenegger vehicle The Last...

I’m late to the table – culinary joke! – to this sleeper hit, but after Chef received enough recommendations from trustworthy friends, I caved...

I hate to sound reactionary, but I am so happy to see Swedish director Lukas Moodysson return to his upbeat beginnings, after several years making...

It sounded so promising: a reverent remake of Godzilla with top-notch actors, an indie director with rich potential, and a serious take on the story. Why, then,...

The latest installment in the X-Men movie franchise is loosely based on the January 1981 X-Men comic book of the same title, which takes place in a dystopian...

Because Captain America: The First Avenger took place mostly in World War II, when Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) turned from wimp to hero as he fought off the Red...

Cult indie director Jim Jarmusch takes on the vampire genre. On the surface, this seems like a no-brainer: the spooky Jarmusch could almost pass for a vampire...

This is a defiantly odd and confidently creepy little film, and as such there’s a part of me that wishes you could just see this without knowing anything...

The Grand Budapest Hotel 2014 | Wes Anderson By Mark Tapio Kines After regaining art house box office relevance with his charming if twee Moonrise Kingdom, Wes...

Gravity 2013 | Alfonso Cuarón By Mark Tapio Kines During the “golden age” of 3D in the 1950s, the majority of films that employed this gimmick were...