I saw The Super Mario Bros. Movie a few weeks ago and since then the movie has become a box office sensation. It will crack $1 billion at the global box office, and it continues to dominate the domestic box office, children everywhere are seeing it and loving it and some adults are too. The critical response to the film, however, was less enthusiastic. Sitting currently at 59% on Rotten Tomatoes (meaning 59% of…
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Kevflix has always been a website about movies, with the occasional dabble into some TV. But my first love before getting into writing about movies was sports and it is something I am still very passionate about. Since I can remember, I’ve always loved sports. I have my favorites to play and watch, but I don’t discriminate against any sport. Whether something as popular as basketball or a sport so random it might not even…
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If you’ve followed me over the last few years, you know I am a big fan of director Ari Aster. His directorial debut, Hereditary, was my favorite movie of 2018 and one of my ten favorite movies of the decade. His second film, Midsommar, landed in my top ten of 2019. With just those two films, Aster became a director I immediately connected with and a director whose next films I would eagerly await….
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Terry Gilliam’s Oscar-winning film The Fisher King has been given a 4k rerelease through the folks over at the Criterion Collection. A fairy tale grounded in poignant reality, Terry Gilliam’s Manhattan-set The Fisher King features Jeff Bridges and Robin Williams in two of their greatest roles. Bridges plays a former radio shock jock reconstructing his life after a scandal, and Williams a homeless man on a quest for the Holy Grail—which he believes to be hidden somewhere…
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Broken Lizard, the comedy team comprised of Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stohlhanske, has been making movies for over twenty years are responsible for some of the great cult comedies of the 2000s. While their movies are hilarious, one thing the Broken Lizard crew doesn’t get enough credit for is how good they are at paying homage to the specific genres of their films. Super Troopers, the film that…
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Showing Up is a quiet slice of life from the great Kelly Reichardt. Reichardt’s latest takes us into the world of the Portland art scene where we look at an artist’s preparation for her latest show and the stresses that she deals with in the week leading up to it. It’s a delicate, amusing, and surprisingly stressful film about the creative process and being an artist. Michelle Williams, working with Reichardt for the fourth…
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As I was sitting in my screening of Air, Ben Affleck’s latest directorial effort about how Nike got Michael Jordan to sign with them, I was wearing a pair of Jordan shoes, specifically a pair of Jordan Retro 1s, which look exactly like the first pair of Nike Jordan’s, but mine were a different color. Since several other people in the theater and I were wearing Jordan shoes and Jordan apparel, it was safe…
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