Kevin Wozniak, Author at Kevflix

From the Collection: Last Hurrah for Chivalry

Posted on March 9, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

Last Hurrah for Chivalry, one of the first feature films from action maestro John Woo, just recently got added to the Criterion Collection. The good folks at Criterion sent me a copy of the film to check out. Before he became known as the master of the bullet-riddled heroic tragedy, John Woo sharpened his trademark themes and kinetic action choreography with 1979’s Last Hurrah for Chivalry. Unaware they are caught in a deadly game of…

Ranking: 2023 Oscars Best Picture Nominees

Posted on March 7, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

The 2023 Academy Awards are here, which means the 2022 movie year is almost officially over. This year’s Oscars finds Everything Everywhere All at Once leading the way in nominations with eleven, followed by The Banshees of Inisherin and All Quiet on the Western Front with nine, respectively. This year’s Best Picture nominees are a strong bunch of movies. Seven of the ten films nominated landed in my personal top twenty movies of 2022, with four of…

Movie Review: Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre is a globe-trotting, slick spy thriller that is non-stop fun and never overly complicated. Operation Fortune gets going right from the start. Co-writer/director Guy Ritchie wastes no time in establishing the players of the film. Nathan (Cary Elwes), working for some sort of British intelligence agency, is putting together a team of the best spies he can get his hands on in order to stop the sale of deadly…

Movie Review: Creed III

Posted on March 1, 2023March 3, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

Michael B. Jordan makes his feature directorial debut with Creed III, an exciting, emotional, and impressively-made film that solidifies that this franchise belongs to Jordan. After winning his final fight against “Pretty” Ricky Conlan (Tony Bellew), the boxer he fought at the end of the first film, Adonis (Jordan, proving once again why he is one of the best leading men working in Hollywood today) is now retired from boxing. We find him a…

Movie Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

Posted on February 16, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

For the Marvel Cinematic Universe, it’s all about the heroes. The hero’s name will always be in the title because they are what draw the audience in and they are what the fans want to see. The majority of the time the stories revolve around the hero and their journey, so it makes sense to call a movie a Captain America movie or a Doctor Strange movie because that movie is about them. But…

From the Collection: Three Colors Trilogy

Posted on February 15, 2023March 9, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

Krzysztof Kieślowski’s 1994 landmark trilogy, Three Colors, recently got a 4k release. The good folks at Criterion sent me a copy of the box set to check out. From Krzysztof Kieślowski comes the Three Colors trilogy, a defining event of the art-house boom of the 1990s. The films are named for the colors of the French flag and stand for the tenets of the French Revolution—liberty, equality, and fraternity—but that hardly begins to explain their…

Best of the 2023 Sundance Film Festival

Posted on February 8, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

The 2023 Sundance Film Festival has officially come to an end. I saw 28 feature films at this year’s festival and a handful of shorts. Overall, I thought this year’s festival was pretty solid. There were a number of movies that I really liked and only a few that I truly did not like, for one reason or another. However, missing from this year’s festival, as has been missing from the past couple of festivals,…

2023 Sundance Film Festival Movie Review: Flora and Son

Posted on February 7, 2023December 5, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

Flora and Son is writer/director John Carney’s first film since 2016’s delightful Sing Street. Yet even with a seven-year hiatus, Carney has not missed a step as a writer, director, and songwriter. Flora and Son is a wonderful and whimsical tale about the mother-son relationship and how creativity can bring people together. Set in a small Irish town, Flora and Son follows Flora (Eve Hewson), a young, irresponsible woman living in an apartment complex full of unique characters. Flora’s…

2023 Sundance Film Festival Movie Review: Sometimes I Think About Dying

Posted on February 7, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

Sometimes I Think About Dying is the latest film from director Rachel Lambert and is adapted from the award-winning short film of the same name by Stefanie Abel Horowitz. The film follows a woman named Fran (Daisy Ridley) who likes to think about dying while working at her mundane office job. She’s good at making spreadsheets and hardly ever talks to or even acknowledges her co-workers. After work, she goes home to her lonely…

2023 Sundance Film Festival Movie Review: Mami Wata

Posted on February 7, 2023December 5, 2023 by Kevin Wozniak

Mami Wata is a stunning cinematic experience. Director C.J. ‘Fiery’ Obasi put his blood, sweat, and tears into this seven-year process of making the film and the final product was worth the effort. Mami Wata is a gorgeous movie rooted in West African folklore. Set in the remote West African village of Iyi. the villagers worship a Mermaid-diety named Mami Wata, who lives in the body of water on the island’s coast. The villagers…

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