Tag Archives: Allison Janney

FLIX PIX (964): “I, TONYA Mines Comedy From Tragedy”

Posted on December 14, 2022 by KPKeelan

I, TONYA (directed by Craig Gillespie, 2017) ***+ (out of 5) . > Wicked fun, this irreverent send-up of a poorly executed and heavily documented crime. . It was everywhere in the media when it happened in 1994: . The headlines … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Allison Janney, art, biography, cinema, comedies, Craig Gillespie, crime, criticism, films, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Margot Robbie, movies, Nancy Kerrigan, opinion, reviews, Tonya Harding | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (871): “Faux ‘News’ and the BOMBSHELL Who Brought Down Roger Ailes”

Posted on October 28, 2022 by KPKeelan

BOMBSHELL (directed by Jay Roach, 2019) ***+ (out of 5) . > I always took it on faith that Roger Ailes, the corpulent himbo behind Faux “News”, was a real piece of human excrement… . After seeing this tart, potent indictment, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Allison Janney, art, autobiography, Bill O’Reilly, biography, Bombshell, Charlize Theron, cinema, criticism, drama, films, Fox News, Geraldo Rivera, Gretchen Carlson, Holland Taylor, ideas, Jay Roach, Jeanine Pirro, John Lithgow, justice, Kate McKinnon, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Malcolm McDowell, Margot Robbie, Megyn Kelly, molestation, movies, newsrooms, Nicole Kidman, opinion, reviews, Richard Kind, Roger Ailes, Rupert Murdoch, scandal, sexism, sexual predators, television, workplace abuse | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (860): “Todd Solandz Takes a Fractured Look at: LIFE DURING WARTIME”

Posted on October 23, 2022 by KPKeelan

LIFE DURING WARTIME (directed by Todd Solandz, 2010) **** (out of 5) . > This Todd Solondz gem really kicks ass on so many levels. . LIFE DURING WARTIME is a family/relationship drama with a wicked sense of humor. It begins … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, arts, child abuse, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, criticism, denial, drama, dramady, dysfunction, families, films, humor, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Life During Wartime, love, Michael Kenneth Williams, movies, opinion, Paul Reubens, Pee Wee Herman, people, personalities, relationships, reviews, Shirley Henderson, Todd Solondz | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (466): “The Actors Shine in TALLULAH”

Posted on April 9, 2022 by KPKeelan

TALLULAH (directed by Sian Heder, 2016) ***+ (out of 5) . > Very compelling Netflix drama about an impulsive act and it’s aftermath. . A fucked-up young drifter, (a wily Ellen Page), mistaken for a hotel childcare worker by a ditzy, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Allison Janney, art, cinema, criticism, drama, Ellen Page, films, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, reviews, Sian Heder, Tallulah, Tammy Blanchard | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (101): The Films of July 2020

Posted on July 25, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > JULY 2020! Most of us are still alive! Well that’s something… (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles in purple have been expanded for … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Ace in the Hole, Adolph Green, Aldolph Green, Alfre Woodard, Alice Pearce, alienation, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, American history, Ann Miller, Anne Baxter, art, Arthur Kennedy, astronomy, Atacama Desert, Atlanta, Augusto Pinochet, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Bel Geddes, Best Foreign Film, Betty Comden, Betty Garrett, Bill O’Reilly, Billy Wilder, biography, Blood on the Moon, Bombshell, Brian Keith, British cinema, Brock Peters, Centennial Park bombing, Charlize Theron, child abuse, Chilean cinema, Chris Cooper, Christine Lahti, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, Cinema Verite, Clint Eastwood, comedies, concentration camps, corruption, courage, crime, criticism, Cynthia Erivo, David Holzman’s Diary, David Spade, denial, dictators, documentaries, Down in the Delta, drama, dramady, dysfunction, Edward Dmytryk, Edward G. Robinson, Elio Petri, Elmer Bernstein, Ennio Morricone, Eric Rohmer, exploitation, families, fascism, fathers and sons, FBI, films, forensics, Fox News, Françoise Fabian, Frank Ferguson, Frank Sinatra, Fred Rogers, Fritz Lang, Gene Kelly, genocide, George Reeves, Geraldo Rivera, Gian Maria Volonté, Girl With the Green Eyes, Glenn Ford, Gretchen Carlson, grief, Harriet, Harriet Tubman, Having a Wild Weekend, Herbie Hancock, heroism, Holland Taylor, Holocaust, ideas, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jaime Sánchez, Jane Fonda, Jay Roach, Jean Louis Trintignant, Jeanine Pirro, Jim McBride, John Boorman, John Hamm, John Lithgow, journalism, Juano Hernandez, Jules Munshin, justice, Kate McKinnon, Kathy Bates, Kathy Scruggs, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lauren Lapkus, Laurence Harvey, Leonard Bernstein, Life During Wartime, love, Luis Buñuel, Lynn Redgrave, Malcolm McDowell, Margot Robbie, Marie-Christine Barrault, Marketa Kimbrell, Marlene Dietrich, Matthew Rhys, Maya Angelou, media, Megyn Kelly, Mel Ferrer, mercenaries, Mississippi, mocumentaries, mothers of the disappeared, movies, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, murder, musicals, My Night at Maud’s, Nazism, Netflix, New Orleans, New York, Nicole Kidman, Nostalgia For the Light, obsession, Olivia Wilde, On the Town, opinion, outlaws, Paul Reubens, Paul Walter Hauser, people, personalities, Peter Finch, policing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, power, prostitution, PTSD, Rancho Notorious, Raymond St. Jacques, relationships, revenge, reviews, Richard Jewell, Richard Kind, Rita Tushingham, road trips, Rob Schneider, Robert Mitchum, Robert Preston, Robert Wise, rock and roll, Rod Steiger, Roger Ailes, romance, Rupert Murdoch, Russell Johnson, sailors, satire, Saul Bass, scandal, science, sexism, Shirley Henderson, Sidney Lumet, slander, slavery, spoofs, Stanley Donen, surrealism, survivor’s guilt, technology, terrorism, The Big Carnival, The Dave Clark Five, The Pawnbroker, The Phantom of Liberty, the press, the underground railroad, The Violent Men, The Wrong Missy, Todd Solondz, Tom Hanks, Tom Junod, trauma, Vera-Ellen, Walk on the Wild Side, Walter Brennan, westerns, William Frawley, workplace abuse, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (67): The Films of SEPTEMBER 2017

Posted on June 21, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Not many films to review this month, as I spent some time catching up on TV series like Orange is the New Black, and The Young Pope… At least I tried to watch The Young Pope. After seeing YOUTH, … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Story of Floating Weeds, Aaron Eckhart, Allison Janney, animation, art, Arthur Penn, Bill Nye, Bill Plympton, biography, Bleed For This, Canadian films, Cannery Row, capers, Cheatin’, Chris O’Dowd, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, criticism, Dave Franco, Debra Winger, documentaries, drama, Dying to Know, E.G. Marshall, Ellen Page, Emily Blunt, family, films, Horton Foote, Isla Fisher, James Fox, Jane Fonda, Japanese cinema, Jesse Eisenberg, Jessica Williams, John Steinbeck, Jude Law, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lillian Hellman, M. Emmet Walsh, Mark Ruffalo, Marlon Brando, Miles Teller, Morgan Freeman, movies, Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Netflix, Nick Nolte, Now You See Me, Paolo Sorrentino, psychedelic culture, Ram Dass, reviews, Robert Duvall, Robert Redford, romantic comedy, science, Space Camp, space travel, Tallulah, Tammy Blanchard, The Chase, The Girl on the Train, The Incredible Jessica James, The Lego Batman Movie, The Mars Generation, The Young Pope, thrillers, Timothy Leary, TV series, Vinny Pazienza, Woody Harrelson, Yasujirō Ozu | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Allison Janney

FLIX PIX (964): “I, TONYA Mines Comedy From Tragedy”

FLIX PIX (871): “Faux ‘News’ and the BOMBSHELL Who Brought Down Roger Ailes”

FLIX PIX (860): “Todd Solandz Takes a Fractured Look at: LIFE DURING WARTIME”

FLIX PIX (466): “The Actors Shine in TALLULAH”

KPK on the CINEMA (101): The Films of July 2020

KPK on the CINEMA (67): The Films of SEPTEMBER 2017

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