Movie Review: Fast X

Movie Review: Fast X

  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…

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From the Collection: Targets

From the Collection: Targets

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)…

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Most Anticipated Movies of the 2023 Chicago Critics Film Festival

Most Anticipated Movies of the 2023 Chicago Critics Film Festival

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…

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Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Movie Review: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

  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…

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Movie Review: The Super Mario Bros. Movie

Movie Review: The Super Mario Bros. Movie

  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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2023 NFL Draft – Movie Edition

2023 NFL Draft – Movie Edition

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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Movie Review: Beau is Afraid

Movie Review: Beau is Afraid

  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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From the Collection: The Fisher King

From the Collection: The Fisher King

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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Movie Review: Quasi

Movie Review: Quasi

  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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Movie Review: Showing Up

Movie Review: Showing Up

  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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