2024 Chicago International Film Festival: 10 Movies To Be Excited About

2024 Chicago International Film Festival: 10 Movies To Be Excited About

The 2024 Chicago International Film Festival kicks off this week, and it is a film festival that I truly love. This was the first festival that I attended back in 2008, and I have attended it every year since. It is a great film festival that does not get the love and attention of some higher-profile festivals but deserves to be mentioned as one of the best film festivals in North America. It highlights so…

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Ranked: 2024 Oscar Best Picture Nominees

Ranked: 2024 Oscar Best Picture Nominees

The 2024 Academy Awards are here, which means the 2023 movie year is almost officially over. This year’s Oscars finds Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer leading the way in nominations with thirteen, followed by Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things with eleven nominations, and Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon with ten nominations, respectively.  This year’s group of Best Picture nominees is one of the best we have seen in quite some time. Six of the ten films nominated…

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Best Movies of 2023 (So Far)

Best Movies of 2023 (So Far)

We have reached the halfway point of 2023, which means it is time to look back at the best movies of 2023 so far. I have seen 73 new release movies so far in 2023 (102 total including film festival movies and movies that will be released later this year. Overall 2023 has been a pretty good year for movies. I will say that of all the movies I have seen, my top six or…

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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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Ranking: 2023 Oscars Best Picture Nominees

Ranking: 2023 Oscars Best Picture Nominees

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…

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Ranking: Top 10 A24 Movies

Ranking: Top 10 A24 Movies

I wouldn’t usually rank the movies of a production company. Thinking about ranking the movies from the likes of Paramount or Universal or Disney just seems like a daunting task because of how long they have been around and how many movies they have in their catalog. But the production studio A24 has been around for only a decade and within that decade, they have established themselves as one of the most singular and best…

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David Fincher Movies Ranked

David Fincher Movies Ranked

David Fincher is one of the best directors working in Hollywood and one of my favorite directors.  For nearly three decades, Fincher has given us some iconic and memorable films, from violent thrillers to Oscar winning dramas.  Here is my ranking of all of David Fincher’s films.       11 – ALIEN3 (1992) Following Ridley Scott’s Alien and James Cameron’s Aliens, two masterpieces of the sci-fi genre, David Fincher made his directorial debut with Alien3.  Following two masterpieces…

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Aaron Sorkin Films – Ranked

Aaron Sorkin Films – Ranked

Usually when we think of the idea of an auteur, directors come to mind.  These are directors who have complete control of their film and you can recognize a film is directed by a certain director based on the visual style and themes of the film.  There aren’t many screenwriters that I would consider auteurs, but there is one who defines this: Aaron Sorkin.  The Oscar and Emmy award winning writer has established his own…

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Top 5 – Seth Rogen Movies

Top 5 – Seth Rogen Movies

From schlubby side-character to rom-com leading man, Seth Rogen has had quite the journey through Hollywood.  Though most people think of Rogen as the funny guy with the crazy laugh, Rogen has become one of the most versatile talents working today.  Not only is he a terrific actor, he’s a great writer, director, and producer, dabbling in all different genres and mediums.  Rogen is always a joy to see on screen and these are the…

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Top 5 – Actors-Turned-Directors Directorial Debuts

Top 5 – Actors-Turned-Directors Directorial Debuts

It seems inevitable that an actor will at some point end up behind the camera as a director.  The results of this happening, however, are mixed. Some actors-turned-directors start off with a dud, others start with a bang.  This list focuses on the latter.  Here are my picks for the best directorial debuts from actors-turned-directors.         5 – A BRONX TALE (Robert De Niro, 1995) By the time 1995 rolled around, Robert De…

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