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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...

An interpretation of the Jazz standard “Take Five” played with traditional Pakistani instruments plus strings. At a virtuoso level! The challenge of...

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...

Go ahead, play with your food, Niki Jabbour seems to be saying in her new book, “Groundbreaking Food Gardens” (Storey Publishing, $19.95, paper)....

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...

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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...

The Wind Rises 2013 | Hayao Miyazaki By Mark Tapio Kines First, a confession: I have never been a fan of Japanese animation. It’s a stylistic thing. I...

Frozen 2013 | Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee By Mark Tapio Kines I am, it appears, the last person on Earth to see Frozen. I initially avoided it because it just...

12 Years a Slave 2013 | Steve McQueen By Mark Tapio Kines With 12 Years a Slave already touted as 2013’s Best Picture Oscar frontrunner just days after...

I’m not sure whether to describe this film as “The Matrix by way of Toy Story” or as “Toy Story by way of The Matrix“. Either...

Almost everyone will give out plain roses this coming Valentine’s Day. Why be like the rest when you can easily be different and make an impressive statement....

Her 2013 | Spike Jonze By Mark Tapio Kines   Her is the story of a lonely Los Angeles man (Joaquin Phoenix) who purchases a Siri-like operating system...

The Wolf of Wall Street 2013 | Martin Scorsese By Mark Tapio Kines There are lots of reasons why I should not have liked The Wolf of Wall Street: It’s...