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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

It almost seems wrong to watch Searching on the big screen, since the entire film takes place on a computer desktop, in the form of FaceTime windows, YouTube...

The success of Crazy Rich Asians reminds me of an old satirical graphic posted in The Onion back in 1999: When listing popular baby names of the time, The...

Incredibly, this is the first Spike Lee film I’ve ever reviewed on this site, after 19 years; I believe 1995’s Clockers was the last Lee...

Exactly the sort of film you’d expect to see from a political rapper named Boots Riley, Sorry to Bother You introduces us to the unique vision of a new...

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...

The year is 2045, and Columbus, Ohio has inexplicably become the largest city in the US. In its poorest neighborhood lives 18-year-old orphan Wade Watts (Tye...