Movie Reviews

Akira Kurisawa’s 1954 classic Seven Samuari has been remade and retold three times.  The first remake was in 1960 with The Magnificent Seven starring Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson.  The next came in 1999 from Pixar, amazingly, in the form of A Bug’s Life.  Now, we get a remake of a remake in Antoine Fuqua’s The Magnificent Seven, which is a wild and fun Western with one of my favorite scenes of 2016. The story is the same: Seven…

My review of the latest Oliver Stone film, Snowden.     ONE SENTENCE RECAP: You’re better off watching CitizenFour (2014).  2/4     Did you see Snowden?  What did you think?  Comment below or hit me up on Twitter and Instagram @kevflix, and find Kevflix on Facebook and YouTube by searching Kevflix.

Sully tells the story of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger (Tom Hanks), a pilot who became a national hero when he landed a plane in the Hudson River, saving the lives of all 155 people on the plane.  The film looks at the events that followed the landing, including an investigation questioning the events that happened. Director Clint Eastwood continues his recent trend of biopics, following Invictus (2009), J. Edgar (2011), The Jersey Boys (2014) and American Sniper (2014).  Sully is his best biopic yet,…

Derek Cianfrance really knows how to pull at the heartstrings.  His first two films, the relationship horror masterpiece Blue Valentine (2010) and the ambitious family drama The Place Beyond the Pines (2013), are some the most emotionally powerful movies I have ever scene.  His newest film, The Light Between Oceans, is just a powerful.  This is a sprawling, intimate, stirring movie, featuring a trio of spectacular performances. Taking place after World War I, former solider Tom (Michael Fassbender) takes a job…

President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama get the Linklater Before treatment in Southside With You, which focuses on the couple’s first date together when they were both colleagues at a Chicago law-firm. Did we actually need this movie?  Probably not, as I believe an account of what happened this night was already publicized at some point.  But, I am glad that we did.  Southside With You is a charming, smart, always interesting love story with…

Don’t Breathe should really be called Don’t Fuck with Stephen Lang.  This movie is an hour and a half of Lang kicking ass and taking names, as he plays a blind war veteran, known only as Blind Man, defending his house from three hooligans (Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zavatto) who break in trying to steal a large amount of money. The first half of the movie is incredibly intense.  The kids think they have it easy,…

I am claiming 2016 The Year of Animation.  So many animated movies have been released and most of them have been very, very good.  Finding Dory and Sausage Party led the way in terms of quality, but both may have just been jumped by Kubo and the Two Strings.  This is an imaginative, heartwarming, exciting film that features some of the best animation I have ever seen on screen. Kubo and the Two Strings follows our cycloptic…