Tag Archives: Bette Davis

QuickPix (18): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 6”

Posted on January 11, 2024 by KPKeelan

> Welcome to KPK’s “QuickPix”, brief capsule reviews of very worthy films- not a stinker in the lot. Culled from my monthly compendiums, every title here is a 4 to 5 star movie. It don’t get any better than this. … Continue reading →

Posted in QuickPix | Tagged 50/50, art, Bette Davis, cancer, Cherry Blossoms, Christianity, cinema, criticism, cults, Dan Duryea, death, dramas, entertainment, faith, families, films, German cinema, grief, Herbert Marshall, Higher Ground, ideas, illness, Japan, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lillian Hellman, movies, opinion, QuickPix, reviews, Seth Rogan, solace, The Little Foxes, time, Vera Farmiga | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1025): “Lillian Hellman’s Literate: WATCH ON THE RHINE”

Posted on February 23, 2023 by KPKeelan

WATCH ON THE RHINE (directed by Herman Shumlin, 1943) **** (out of 5) * > Adapted for the screen by the writer’s lover, celebrated noir stylist Dashiell Hammett, this sober drama is a constrained and appropriately claustrophobic affair. . Studio star … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Bette Davis, cinema, criticism, Dashiell Hammett, drama, films, Herman Shumlin, ideas, intolerance, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lillian Hellman, movies, Nazis, opinion, Paul Lucas, resistance, reviews, sacrifice, Watch on the Rhine, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (93): The Films of November 2019

Posted on July 17, 2021 by KPKeelan

. November! So many great movies in this batch! I (heart) cinema! (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 Flix … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged action, addiction, American culture, animation, Ann Margaret, anti-Semitism, Anton Yelchin, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aparajito, Ben is Back, Bette Davis, biography, camp, Can Can, cartoons, change, charity, Chuck Jones, class, Cole Porter, comedy, crime, Damon Runyan, Dashiell Hammett, death, dignity, drama, Edward Everett Horton, Ewan McGregor, fame, families, family films, fantasy, fascism, Female Trouble, Frank Capra, Frank Sinatra, fraud, friendship, Glenn Ford, Griffin Davis, growth, Hitler, Hope Lange, humor, I Love You Phillip Morris, Indian cinema, inmates, intolerance, Jean Renoir, Jim Carrey, John Waters, Jojo Rabbit, Julia Roberts, kindness, kitsch, life, Lillian Hellman, Louis Jourdan, love, Lucas Hedges, Maurice Chevalier, media, Mel Blanc, Mel Ferrer, metaphor, morality, mothers and sons, murder, musicals, Nazis, Norton Juster, Olivia Cooke, Pather Panchali, Paul Lucas, Paul Sparks, people, Peter Falk, Pocketful of Miracles, poverty, prisoners, relationships, resistance, romance, Sam Rockwell, satire, Satyajit Ray, Scaramouche, Shirley MacLaine, social class, Stewart Granger, swashbucklers, swordplay, Taika Waititi, The Phantom Tollbooth, The World of Apu, Thoroughbreds, Watch on the Rhine, World War II | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Bette Davis

QuickPix (18): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 6”

FLIX PIX (1025): “Lillian Hellman’s Literate: WATCH ON THE RHINE”

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