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FLIX PIX (896): “DOLEMITE IS MY NAME and Cracking You the Fuck Up is My Game!”

Posted on November 10, 2022 by KPKeelan

DOLEMITE IS MY NAME (directed by Craig Brewer, 2019) **** (out of 5) . … And dynamite is my game! > So went the rap of Rudy Ray Moore, black comedian, musician and entrepreneurial filmmaker in the hazy 1970’s. Eddie Murphy … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, biography, blacksploitation, cinema, comedies, Craig Brewer, criticism, cursing, Dolemite Is My Name, Eddie Murphy, films, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, kung fu, movies, opinion, reviews, Rudy ray Moore, sex, Snoop Dogg | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (699): “Spike Lee Scores With BLACKKKLANSMAN”

Posted on August 3, 2022 by KPKeelan

BLACKKKLANSMAN (directed by Spike Lee, 2018) **** (out of 5) . > This Spike Lee joint made a splash! Not sure how it fared at the box office, but it sure generated Big Buzz! . People are talking about a Spike … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Adam Driver, art, biography, Blackkklansman, blacksploitation, cinema, crime, criticism, David Duke, films, Harry Belafonte, history, ideas, John David Washington, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Ku Klux Klan, law enforcement, Michael Buscemi, movies, opinion, racism, reviews, Ron Stallworth, Spike Lee, the KKK, Topher Grace | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (106): The Films of December 2020

Posted on July 30, 2021 by KPKeelan

. DECEMBER 2020! Seven 5-star classics! Bet that’s an all-time record. So without further ado… (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 … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 20 Million Miles to Earth, A Night in Casablanca, action, African cinema, Alfred Hitchcock, aliens, Amanda Seyfried, Anne Bancroft, Anthony Franciosa, Anthony Hopkins, artists, arts, assassination, August Wilson, Benh Zeitlin, biography, blacksploitation, blues, Caoilinn Springall, Cary Grant, Chadwick Boseman, Chico Marx, Christianity, cinema, Citizen Kane, Claire Bloom, cold war, comedies, compromise, criticism, Crumbs, David Fincher, David Lynch, David O. Selznick, David Oyelowo, deformities, Demián Bichir, disaster films, drama, dysfunctional families, dystopia, exploitation, extremism, fantasy, Felicity Jones, films, Freddie Jones, Garson Kanin, Gary Oldman, George Clooney, George Cukor, George Roy Hill, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Herman J. Mankiewicz, history, Hollywood, humanity, ideas, Incitement, Ingmar Bergman, Irene Dunn, Irving Thalberg, Israeli cinema, Jack Albertson, Jack Fincher, Jane Fonda, Jay Duplass, jazz, Jesus, Jim Hutton, John Forsythe, John Houseman, John Hurt, John McGiver, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Katherine Hepburn, Kevin Keelan, King Henry II, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lois Nettleton, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, manhood, Mank, Marion Davies, marriage, Marx brothers, Max Von Sydow, mercenaries, movies, murder, music, musicals, My Favorite Wife, mythology, Netflix, new testament, Oakland, opinion, Orson Welles, outer space, Pedro Pascal, peril, Period of Adjustment, Peter O’Toole, Peter Pan, playwrights, post-apocalypse, power, Prospect, race, Radha Blank, rap, Ray Harryhausen, relationships, religion, reviews, Rod Taylor, romance, royalty, San Simeon, sci-fi, science fiction, screenwriting, screwball comedies, sex, sexuality, Shelley Winters, Sir John Gielgud, Sophie Tucker, Space is the Place, spies, Sun Ra, surrealism, Swedish cinema, Tennessee Williams, terrorism, The 40-Year-Old Version, the Bible, The Chapman Report, The Elephant Man, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Lion in Winter, The Magician, The Midnight Sky, thrillers, Topaz, tragedy, Trent Reznor, true stories, Viola Davis, wealth, Wendy, Wendy Hiller, William Randolph Hearst, World Without End, writers | Leave a comment

KPK on the Cinema (92): The Films of October 2019

Posted on July 16, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Rocktober! My favorite month. Another birthday and great weather in Santa Cruz by the sea. Welcome back, autumn. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 56 Up, A Private War, Aaron Paul, Abbas Kiarostami, action, Ad Astra, adventure, aging, animals, Antonino Banderas, aristocracy, art, Ash is Purist White, betrayal, biography, black culture, blacksploitation, Brad Pitt, Breaking Bad, Brian Wilson, Britain, Bryan Cranston, Bryce Dallas Howard, change, Charlotte Rampling, child abuse, children, China, Chinese cinema, Chris Parnell, Chris Pratt, cinema, classics, comedy, conflict, corruption, crime, crops, David Crosby, dinosaurs, documentaries, Dolemite Is My Name, Donald Sutherland, drama, Echo in the Canyon, Eddie Murphy, El Camino, epics, Eric Clapton, escape, families, fantasy, farmers, farming, fathers, film criticism, films, financial fraud, Fiona Apple, gangsters, Gary Oldman, gender roles, genetics, Geraldine Chaplin, Graham Nash, Hale County This Morning This Evening, HBO, historical fiction, humor, Iranian culture, J.A. Bayona, Jackson Browne, Jakob Dylan, James Cromwell, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Fox, Jia Zhangke, John Sebastian, journalism, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, Keira Knightley, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Laura Dern, Laurel Canyon, Leo Tolstoy, life, Liv Tyler, Los Angeles, love, Marie Colvin, Matthew Heineman, memory, mental health, Meryl Streep, Michael Apted, Michelle Phillips, movies, music, musicians, nationalism, nature, Netflix, Norah Jones, nostalgia, obsession, opinion, parenting, Paul Conroy, people, performing, period pieces, Polish cinema, politics, privilege, Ralph Fiennes, Ramell Ross, rape, revenge, reviews, Ringo Starr, rock and roll, Roger McGuinn, romance, Rosamund Pike, science fiction, sequels, Sergei Bondarchuk, Seven Up series, shame, Sharon Stone, shell companies, social class, Soviet cinema, space travel, Stanley Tucci, Stephen Stills, Steven Soderbergh, success, survival, suspense, sustainability, the 1960’s, The Biggest Little Farm, The Duchess, the human condition, The Laundromat, the Panama papers, the seventies, The Tale, time, Toby Jones, Tom Petty, Tommy Lee Jones, USSR, values, Vince Gilligan, violence, war, War and Peace, Weather Forecast, Where is the Friends House?, Will Forte | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (79): The Films of September 2018

Posted on July 3, 2021 by KPKeelan

. A brand new month, a brand new crop o’ films! A lifetime love of movies. (All films are rated on a 5 star basis and must be over a decade old to get that 5 star designation.) (Titles in … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 12, 12 Angry Men, A Street Cat Named Bob, Adam Driver, addiction, Alec Baldwin, Alexander Payne, Ali Fazal, Anna Kendrick, art, Asim Abbasi, Ben Foster, biography, Blackkklansman, blacksploitation, Born in China, buskers, Cake, China, Christian Bale, cinema, comedy, corruption, criticism, Dave Franco, David Duke, Denis Villeneuve, destruction, disaster films, Disneynature, documentaries, doppelgangers, Downsizing, drama, Eddie Izzard, Enemy, extinction, films, Forest Whitaker, Fred Armisen, genocide, golden monkeys, Harry Belafonte, Hillary Swank, history, Hostiles, How It Ends, ideas, India, Isabella Rossellini, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Bowen, Jennifer Aniston, Jesse Plemons, John C. Reilly, John David Washington, John Krakowski, John Maclean, Judi Dench, juries, justice, Kat Graham, Kate Micucci, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Luke Treadaway, Matt Damon, Michael Buscemi, Michael Fassbender, Michael Gambon, Michael Peña, movies, murder, Natural disasters, nature, Nick Offerman, Nikita Mikhalov, Olivia Williams, opinion, overpopulation, pandas, police brutality, psychological thrillers, racism, reviews, Roger Spottiswoode, Ron Stallworth, Rosamund Pike, Russian cinema, Sam Worthington, sci-fi, Scott Cooper, Simon Callow, singers, Slow West, snow leopards, special effects, Spike Lee, success, surrealism, The Decameron, The Homesman, the Indian Wars, the Ku Klux Klan, The Little Hours, the seventies, Theo James, Tommy Lee Jones, Topher Grace, tragedy, Victoria & Abdul, Wes Studi, westerns, wildlife | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: blacksploitation

FLIX PIX (896): “DOLEMITE IS MY NAME and Cracking You the Fuck Up is My Game!”

FLIX PIX (699): “Spike Lee Scores With BLACKKKLANSMAN”

KPK on the CINEMA (106): The Films of December 2020

KPK on the CINEMA (79): The Films of September 2018

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