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KPK on the CINEMA (140): “The Films of October 2023”

Posted on November 1, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > This month: a Noël Coward comedy of manners, a previously unseen Hitchcock thriller, a return to seminal swashbucklers of my youth, the Greatest Concert Film Ever Made, a silly Marx Brothers lark, Tracy and Hepburn meet Elia Kazan, … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged adventure, Africa, African safaris, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Hitchcock, American Indians, Angel on My Shoulder, Angie Dickinson, animation, Ann Margaret, Anne Baxter, Anthony Asquith, Anthony Perkins, appearances, Aramis, Archie Mayo, artists, arts, Athos, Australian outback, Ava Gardner, Barry Corbin, Beauty and the Beast, Bobby Rydell, British cinema, Bye Bye Birdie, celebrities, celebrity, Charlie Musselwhite, Chris Frantz, cinema, Clark Gable, class, classics, Claude Rains, collectives, comedies, comedy, concerts, corruption, crime, criticism, D'Artagnan, Dan Duryea, David Byrne, Dead Ringer, Dean Stockwell, Dick Van Dyke, divorce, documentaries, drama, Dyan Cannon, dysfunctional relationships, Ed Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Elemental, Elia Kazan, Elizabeth Taylor, Elke Sommer, empowerment, England, entertainment, epics, espionage, exploitation, fables, fairy tales, fame, fantasy, farming, feuds, films, France, Frank Finlay, fraud, French cinema, game trafficking, George Sidney, Go West, God, good and evil, Grace Kelly, greed, Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, HBO, Herbert Ross, Hume Cronyn, humor, Ian McShane, ideas, infidelity, injustice, intrigue, Jack White, James Colburn, James Garner, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Jean Cocteau, Jerry Harrison, Jesse Plemons, Jessica Tandy, Joan Hackett, John Ford, John Lithgow, John Qualen, Jonathan Demme, Joseph Cotton, justice, Karen Morley, Karl Malden, Katharine Hepburn, Kevin Keelan, Killers of the Flower Moon, King Vidor, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Last Stop Larrimah, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Lionel Barrymore, love, Maggie Smith, Margaret Rutherford, marriage, Martin Scorsese, Marx brothers, Maureen Stapelton, Melvyn Douglas, Michael York, Mogambo, morality, movies, murder, music, musicals, mystery, Noel Coward, Norma Shearer, Norman Jewison, Oliver Reed, opinion, Orson Welles, Osage Nation, Our Daily Bread, Paddy Moriarty, Paul Lynde, Paul Muni, personalities, Pete Yorn, Pixar, Porthos, poverty, Private Lives, privilege, racism, Raquel Welch, redemption, relationships, reviews, rich and famous, Richard Benjamin, Richard Burton, Richard Chamberlain, Richard Lester, Robert De Niro, Robert Montgomery, rock and roll, Rod Taylor, romance, Satan, Shadow of a Doubt, slapstick, small towns, socialism, Spencer Tracy, spies, Stephen Sondheim, Stop Making Sense, stunts, supernatural, survival, suspense, swashbuckling, Talking Heads, Tay Garnett, Terrence Rattigan, The Art of Love, the eighties, The Four Musketeers, the great depression, The Last of Sheila, The Sea of Grass, The Three Musketeers, The V.I.P.s, The Valley of Decision, Thornton Wilder, Tina Weymouth, Tom Keene, tragedy, violence, westerns, whodunnit | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (434): “A Lovely Live-Action Reboot of Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST”

Posted on March 24, 2022 by KPKeelan

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST (directed by Bill Condon, 2017) ***+ (out of 5) . > I heard this was good. Audiences liked it… . I was somewhat less than enthused by the concept of Disney re-mining old animated material for live … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Beauty and the Beast, Bill Condon, cinema, criticism, Disney, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Ewan McGregor, films, Ian McKellen, ideas, Kevin Keelan, Kevin Kline, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, live action, Luke Evans, movies, musicals, opinion, reviews, Stanley Tucci | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (68): The Films of OCTOBER 2017

Posted on June 22, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Having a hard time writing reviews lately. Lonely stuff, sometimes, but that’s the work of a writer. When I buckle down and just DO IT, the process usually brings great rewards. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Ghost Story, action, Amazon jungle, Anthropoid, art, artificial intelligence, battle of the sexes, Beauty and the Beast, Billie Jean King, Blade Runner, Bobby Riggs, Brontis Jodorowsky, Buddhism, Burn Gorman, Casey Affleck, Certain Women, Chinese cinema, Christianity, Cillian Murphy, cinema, Cinema Verite, comedies, coming of age, cyborgs, David Lowery, DC Comics, director’s cuts, Disney, documentaries, drama, dystopia, Eastern mysticism, El Topo, Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Ethan Hawke, Ewan McGregor, exploration, family, film, film criticism, film noir, French cinema, Gal Godot, generational conflict, Harrison Ford, humanity, humor, Ian McKellen, immigrants, In a Valley of Violence, It Was 50 Years Ago Today, James Le Gros, John C. Reilly, John Goodman, John Travolta, Kelly Reichardt, Kevin Keelan, Kevin Kline, King Kong, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kristen Stewart, Kumail Nanjiani, Laura Dern, life, Luke Evans, Manakamana, Maya Rudolph, Mexican cinema, Michelle Williams, movies, music, musicals, Nazis, Nepal, opinion, Orphan Black, Pakistani-Americans, pilgrims, Police Academy, relationships, religion, remakes, reviews, Ridley Scott, Robin Wright, Rooney Mara, Rutger Hauer, Sam Rockwell, Samuel L. Jackson, science fiction, Sean Young, sexism, Sgt. Pepper and Beyond, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band, Skull Island, spirituality, Stanley Tucci, Steve Carell, Sunflower, superheroes, supernatural, symbolism, Tatiana Maslany, tennis, The Beatles, The Big Sick, The Grocer's Son, The Lost City of Z, The Way Way Back, Toby Jones, Tom Hiddleston, Toni Collette, tradition, violence, westerns, Wonder Woman, World War II | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Beauty and the Beast

KPK on the CINEMA (140): “The Films of October 2023”

FLIX PIX (434): “A Lovely Live-Action Reboot of Disney’s BEAUTY AND THE BEAST”

KPK on the CINEMA (68): The Films of OCTOBER 2017

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