April 2024 - Kevflix

The Most Exciting Movies Playing at the 2024 Chicago Critics Film Festival

Posted on April 30, 2024 by Kevin Wozniak

The Chicago Critics Film Festival returns to the historic Music Box Theater in Chicago for the 11th time to highlight some of the most exciting films making their rounds on the film festival circuit. Once again the festival showcases an eclectic group of films, from indie sensations to midnight hits to anniversary screenings of beloved favorites. Here are some of the titles I am most excited about at this year’s festival. Bringing Out the Dead…

Movie Review: Challengers

Posted on April 24, 2024 by Kevin Wozniak

Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers is a great film because of how effortlessly it blends what could have been two separate films together to make one great film. This is a love story and sports film, reminiscent of Ron Shelton’s Bull Durham. One film is a love triangle about two friends, one girl, and the ideas of past loves and what could have been. The other is a sports film about the competitive spirit. If these…

Movie Review: Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Posted on April 20, 2024 by Kevin Wozniak

A movie featuring Godzilla and King Kong together on screen should not be boring, and yet, watching Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, the latest entry in the Monsterverse cinematic universe, I was consistently bored and underwhelmed. It is a movie that not only barely features Godzilla and King Kong fighting together, but barely features them on screen together, despite them being the titular duo. Instead, we get a movie that features the same…

From the Collection: Werckmeister Harmonies

Posted on April 20, 2024 by Kevin Wozniak

Béla Tarr and Ágnes Hranitzky’s Werckmeister Harmonies is one of the newest films added to the Criterion Collection. Adapted from a novel by László Krasznahorkai, Werckmeister Harmonies unfolds in an unknown time in an unnamed village in Hungary, where, one day, a mysterious circus—complete with an enormous stuffed whale and a shadowy, demagogue-like figure known as the Prince—arrives and appears to awaken a kind of madness in the citizens that builds inexorably toward violence. Shot in stark…