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I haven’t been excited about a new movie in years – that is, until a year or two ago, when I first heard about the making of Once Upon a Time in...

After Avengers: Endgame, the epic conclusion of Marvel’s multi-year Infinity Stones story arc, Spider-Man: Far from Home feels like a feature-length...

Dexter Fletcher was the guy who was called in to finish Bohemian Rhapsody after the credited director Bryan Singer was fired. If anyone was wondering just how...

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

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

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

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

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

The first Ant-Man installment was a welcome break from the increasingly galactic Marvel films. Breezy and smaller-scale (pun slightly intended), its heist-like...

In my review for 2015’s Sicario, I noted that Emily Blunt’s priggish FBI agent was a weak center in a story about CIA involvement in the drug war,...

Fourteen years after The Incredibles brought computer animated films to a new level, the super-powered Parr family returns – dropping the “The”...

There are almost strictly two kinds of heist movies: those where everything goes right and the thieves walk away with a fortune, and those where everything goes...

How you experience Adrift depends greatly on whether or not you catch the first minute of the film. For the first shot opens on a man’s lifeless body...

It’s one of the great mysteries of 2018: why Solo, a brisk and likable prequel in the Star Wars canon, bombed, comparatively speaking, at the box office....

It’s funny: I remember enjoying the first Deadpool, but I can only really remember its “essence”, if you catch my drift. I recall the raunchy...

In early January, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek 9 predictions for 2018, including what I felt would be the sleeper hit of the year. I swear, dear reader, that I...