All Things Kevyn

When i first set up this blog back in 2013 (when blogging was a much bigger thing than it is now) i was posting like a crazy man! As the years rolled by, and the addictive lure of social media grew & grew, the blog posts became fewer & fewer & further & further between. As you can see if you scroll down, my last post was nearly two years ago. So yeah, they have definitely become fewer & further indeed. But cut to now (aka, this post) and i am attempting a comeback of sorts. I've tried this a few times before - to no avail - but this time i mean it. I know. I know, i've said that before. But this time i really do mean it! I know. I know. I've said that before as well. But... ya know what... this could go on forever. So let's just say, i am attempting a comeback again. Hopefully this one sticks. In the next few weeks i will be posting my 41st Annual Kevy Awards - my own Oscar alternatives that i've been giving out since i was a nerdy 17 year old hi...

Hello true believers and welcome to that annual thing of things - my Oscar Predictions! Last year i set a personal record by correctly guessing 22 out of 23. i missed Animated Short dammit!! This year i am not that confident since there are more than the usual up in the air races. Anyhoo, here are my predictions. And awaaaaaay we go.... Best Picture Predicted Winner: Everything Everywhere All at Once Possible Spoiler: The Banshees of Inisherin If I had a Vote: Everything Everywhere All at Once Should've been Nominated: Pearl and/or Nope Best Director Predicted Winner: Daniels for EEAAO Possible Spoiler: Steven Spielberg perhaps If I had a Vote: Osterlund, just to throw everything off Should've been Nominated: Ti West and/or Jordan Peele Best Actress Predicted Winner: Michelle Yeoh in EEAAO Possible Spoiler: Cate Blanchett (who was the frontrunner all season long) If I had a Vote: Cate Blanchett in Tar Should've been Nominated: Mia Goth in Pearl Best Actor Predicted Winner: ...

Here is my Countdown of the 25 Best Movies of 2022. Before we begin, here are a few Honourable Mentions, in no particular order: Amsterdam; Empire of Light; Top Gun Maverick; Fresh; All Quiet on the Western Front; Catherine Called Birdy; Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio; The Northman; Cha Cha Real Smooth; and X . And awaaaaay we go.... 25. Bullet Train (David Leitch) - Directed by David Leitch, the man responsible for John Wick, as well as the director of Deadpool 2 and one of the Fast & Furious movies (can anyone tell them apart anyway) this is a non-stop action comedy headlined by a fabulously fun Brad Pitt as a reluctant assassin. 24. Triangle of Sadness (Ruben Östlund) - Winner of the Palme d'Or at last year's Cannes Film Festival, this is a strange little comedy about class warfare amongst marooned yacht passengers and personel that brings on the Luis Buñuel vibe big time. 23. Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson) - Slightly better than the first movie...

The world of Jurassic Park. There have been six movies in total. Three Jurassic Park movies and three Jurassic World movies. So, now that I've seen the sixth in the franchise, Jurassic World: Dominion, I can make my opinions known on how they should be ranked. I think number one is obvious, but I'm a completist, so here goes... 1. Jurassic Park (1993) - Obviously the original is the best. It's not even a contest. Anyone who says otherwise is just plain wrong. The first film, directed by Steven Spielberg, is not only the best of the Jurassic movies, it is also one of the best monster movies of all time. One of the greatest Summer blockbusters of all-time. Alongside Jaws and Raiders of the Lost Ark (both Spielberg films as well) it shows how a big time action movie should be made. In fact, it's more than just one of the best action and/or monster movies of all-time. The movie sits proudly in my 100 favourite movies of all-time. Genres be damned! Laura Dern. Sam Neill. Je...

Take Stephen Chow's Kung Fu Hustle. Blend in some Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. Toss in a dash of Wong Kar-wai. Fold in some screwball comedy and a smidgen of nihilism. Toss it all together with society's recent fascination with the idea of a multiverse, and you have Everything Everywhere All at Once - a movie that definitely lives up to it's portentous title. Directed by Dan Kwan and Daniel Schienert, known collectively as Daniels, Everything Everywhere All at Once is the tale of Evelyn, a struggling, dissatisfied wife and mother and owner of a laundromat. Her life didn't go as expected and now she is just going through the motions. Her husband wants a divorce (though she doesn't know that yet), her father is a burden, her daughter and her do not get along, and now she's brought home her girlfriend as an added shock to the system. All the while, she is being audited by the IRS and may end up losing her business - on top of losing her husband and daughter. It...

Hello true believers and welcome to that annual thing of things - my Oscar Predictions! This year is as predictable as most years, but the funny thing about this year is that Best Picture is the one up in the air. If you had asked me a month ago - hell, a week ago - I would have said The Power of the Dog was a lock for the win. Most Oscar pundits would have said the same. But then the PGA's surprised everyone and awarded their prize to CODA. Add this to their surprise win at the SAG Awards two weeks back and it's beginning to look like a photo finish coming up. The SAG membership is the largest block of voters in The Academy. The PGA is the only other awards, other than The Oscars, that have a preferential ballot, wherein instead of voting on one choice, you list the films in order of preference. These two things combined make CODA suddenly look like a frontrunner. Technically I believe The Power of the Dog is still the frontrunner, but as voting was closing down (and Academy v...

Let's start this off with a declaration. The reason Matt Reeves' The Batman is the best of its genre (and it may well be just that) is because it refuses to act as if it's part of the genre at all, instead going far above and beyond the typical theme park tentpoles swarming theatres these days. The Batman may technically be a comic book and/or superhero movie, but it owes more to films like David Fincher's Se7en or Zodiac , or Polanski's Chinatown , or even the works of William Friedkin or Fritz Lang than it does to and comic book and/or superhero movie that came before. The film, based primarily on the comic book Batman:Year Two, is a dark and brutal film, even by normal DCEU standards, which tend to be darker than their average MCU counterpart. This is a superhero movie, much like Zack Snyder's adaptation of Alan Moore's Watchmen, that deconstructs the genre and pretty much tears it apart. Is Batman, a masked vigilante who works above the law, really th...