By Mark Tapio Kines

I always find myself wanting to love a Guillermo del Toro film, but ultimately only liking it. There’s something about them – at least his English...

Cassie (Carey Mulligan) is a woman on a mission: every weekend, she goes to a bar and pretends to be blackout drunk. Promising Young Woman Directed by Emerald...

Despite its pretentious title, this is a no-nonsense dramatization of the short life of Illinois Black Panther Party chairman Fred Hampton (Daniel Kaluuya),...

Is The Little Things a 2021 release or not? It’s hard to tell, with the pandemic forcing so many films to debut on streaming services, forgiving the old...

You may snigger at the title, but Dick Johnson Is Dead is an earnest documentary about the filmmaker’s father, an 85-year-old widowed psychiatrist...

This film is based on August Wilson’s 1984 play of the same title, and despite energetic camerawork and editing, it very much feels like filmed theatre...

All I need to say is this film’s title and “written and directed by Aaron Sorkin” and you know exactly what you’re in for: snappy...

A Movie Review of Molly’s Game by Mark Tapio Kines

Despite its grandiose title, Almodóvar’s latest is an intimate and – no matter how much you know about the writer/director’s life – obviously...

A lower class Korean family is struggling to make ends meet. Parasite Directed by Bong Joon-ho – 2019 Reviewed by Mark Tapio Kines When the teenage son...

This dramatization of Judy Garland’s five-week residency at London’s Talk of the Town nightclub, just a few months before her death in 1969, rises...

Some movies barely warrant an in-depth review. Downton Abbey is a good example. A feature-length sequel to the British TV drama that originally aired between...

I’m not sure what people expect from Hustlers. Most folks already know that the film, based on a true story, follows a quartet of ex-strippers – led by...

A foul-mouthed young bride (Samara Weaving, niece of Hugo) learns that her groom’s relatives, millionaires who have made their fortune in board games...