May 2023 - Kevflix

Movie Review: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is a revolutionary film. It is a film that pushes the boundaries of animation on film. A film that questions the conventions of superhero movies and their genre tropes. A comic book movie sequel that is as big, bold, and ambitious as any we have ever seen. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, is a phenomenal comic book movie sequel. Like other great comic book movie sequels like Spider-Man 2 and The Dark…

Movie Review: Fast X

Posted on May 17, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

One of the talking points around the Fast & Furious franchise is how unrealistic and insane the movies have gotten. What started as a street-level franchise about cops, criminals, and car racing progressively became globe-trotting espionage spectacles filled with action, cars, and dozens of characters played by big-time actors. With the movies getting bigger, both in popularity and in budget and effects, the plots kept getting more complicated and the stories more ridiculous to…

From the Collection: Targets

Posted on May 16, 2023May 16, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

Targets, the directorial debut by Oscar-nominated writer and director Peter Bogdanovich, is the latest film to enter the Criterion Collection. Old Hollywood collides with New Hollywood, and screen horror with real-life horror, in Peter Bogdanovich’s debut film. Produced by B-movie legend Roger Corman, this chillingly prescient vision of American-made carnage casts Boris Karloff as a version of himself: an aging horror-movie icon whose fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man (Tim O’Kelly)…

Most Anticipated Movies of the 2023 Chicago Critics Film Festival

Posted on May 3, 2023May 4, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

The Chicago Critics Film Festival celebrates its 10th anniversary from May 5th through May 11th at Music Box Theater in Chicago. This is an excellent film festival that offers up some of the best and most exciting movies that have been making their way around the film festival circuit, as well as some classics. This year’s festival is loaded with great titles and here are a few that I am most excited about. A Disturbance in the…

Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Posted on May 3, 2023May 4, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

The opening credits of the first Guardians of the Galaxy saw Peter Quill/Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) landing on a planet, entering a cave, putting on the headphones to his old Walkman cassette player, and playing “Come and Get Your Love” by Redbone as he dances and struts through the cave. In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, the film’s opening credits are of Baby Groot dancing to “Mr. Blue Sky” by Electric Light Orchestra while…