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KPK on the Cinema: (137): “The Films of July 2023”

Posted on August 8, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > July was kind of an in-between month. Not much of interest in the marketplace, aside from the formidable marketing juggernaut of BARBENHEIMER. It was however, a month that sent me out to the movies twice- something that hasn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Adrien Brody, Alexander Payne, aliens, ambition, Americana, Amy Wright, Annie Get Your Gun, Annie Oakley, Anything You Can Do, arts, Asteroid City, Aunt Mary Claire, Aunt Selma, Barry Levinson, Betty Hutton, biography, Bob Balaban, Brad Dourif, Bryan Cranston, Buffalo Bill Cody, Busby Berkeley, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, cinema, comedy, con men, crime, criminals, criticism, Dave Bautista, David Morse, disability, Doin' What Comes Natur'lly, drama, dysfunction, Edward Norton, Election, Elke Sommer, Emily Blunt, entertainment, films, Flannery O'Connor, Florence Pugh, fraud, friendship, Gary Oldman, George Sidney, government, grifters, growth, Harold Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, healing, high school, history, Hollywood, Hope Davis, Hotel Artemis, Howard Keel, hubris, I'm an Indian Too, ideas, Inside Moves, Irving Berlin, Jason Schwartzman, Jeff Goldblum, Jeffery Wright, Jenny Slate, Jill St. John, Jodie Foster, John Huston, John Savage, Josh Hartnett, Keenan Wynn, Kevin Keelan, kitsch, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Live Schreiber, Louis Calhern, Margot Robbie, Matt Damon, Matt Dillon, Matthew Broderick, movies, musicals, nuclear weapons, opinion, Oppenheimer, politics, preachers, Project Trinity, Reese Witherspoon, relationships, religion, reviews, Richard Donner, Rita Wilson, Robert Downey Jr., romance, satire, Scarlett Johansson, science, scientists, Sitting Bull, spirituality, Stephen Boyd, Sterling K. Brown, Steve Carell, success, surrealism, the arms race, the atomic age, The Girl That I Marry, The Oscar, There's No Business Like Show Business, They Say It's Wonderful, thrillers, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hanks, Tony Bennett, Wes Anderson, Willem Dafoe, Wise Blood, World War II, You Can't Get a Man with a Gun, Zachary Quinto | Leave a comment

Flix Pix (1098): “Put On Your Space Suit and Go See ASTEROID CITY”

Posted on July 29, 2023 by KPKeelan

. ASTEROID CITY (directed by Wes Anderson, 2023) ***+ (out of 5) . > Man, was I straining at the bit to see this. For all his limitations, I dig Wes Anderson. . But his highly stylized world of perfect balance … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Adrien Brody, aliens, Americana, arts, Asteroid City, Bob Balaban, Bryan Cranston, cinema, comedy, criticism, Edward Norton, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, Hope Davis, ideas, Jason Schwartzman, Jeff Goldblum, Jeffery Wright, Kevin Keelan, kitsch, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Live Schreiber, Margot Robbie, Matt Dillon, movies, opinion, reviews, Rita Wilson, satire, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Carell, surrealism, the atomic age, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hanks, Wes Anderson, Willem Dafoe | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (907): “KPK Has a Look at EL CAMINO: A Breaking Bad Movie”

Posted on November 15, 2022 by KPKeelan

EL CAMINO: A Breaking Bad Movie (directed by Vince Gilligan, 2019) ***+ (out of 5) . > A feature length sequel to Breaking Bad? That was a great series. Okay. I’m down with that. . So, what do we get? It’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Aaron Paul, action, art, Breaking Bad, Bryan Cranston, cinema, crime, criticism, El Camino, films, ideas, Jesse Pinkman, Jonathan Bank, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, reviews, suspense, Vince Gilligan, Walter White | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (806): “From The Last Detail to LAST FLAG FLYING”

Posted on September 26, 2022 by KPKeelan

LAST FLAG FLYING (directed by Richard Linklater, 2017) ***+ (out of 5) . > Richard Linklater directed this very good film about the side-effects of war: the human collateral and the damage that can last a lifetime to a traumatized soldier. … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Bryan Cranston, cinema, criticism, films, friendship, grief, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Last Flag Flying, Laurence Fishburne, loss, movies, opinion, reviews, Richard Linklater, service, Steve Carell, veterans, war | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (753): “Go ‘ALL THE WAY’ With L.B.J.”

Posted on August 30, 2022 by KPKeelan

ALL THE WAY (directed by Hal Roach, 2016) **** (out of 5) . > My old childhood schoolmate Bryan Cranston got to grow up and play L.B.J. in TV biopic! How cool is that? . I’m jealous. I was the one … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged All the Way, Anthony Mackie, art, biography, Bradley Whitford, Bryan Cranston, cinema, civil rights, criticism, films, Frank Langella, Hal Roach, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lady Bird Johnson, LBJ, Melissa Leo, movies, opinion, racism, reviews, Richard Russell, Steven Spielberg | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (485): “A Delightful Jaunt to the ISLE OF DOGS”

Posted on April 18, 2022 by KPKeelan

ISLE OF DOGS (directed by Wes Anderson, 2018) ****+ (out of 5) . > After seeing the early teasers, I was really looking forward to this Wes Anderson animation for months before it hit theaters- and I was really not disappointed. … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Bill Murray, Bob Balaban, Bryan Cranston, cinema, criticism, Edward Norton, F. Murray Abraham, films, Frances McDormand, Greta Gerwig, Harvey Keitel, ideas, Isle of Dogs, Jeff Goldblum, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, reviews, Scarlett Johansson, Wes Anderson, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (446): “TRUMBO, and the Tragedy of Hollywood Blacklisting”

Posted on March 30, 2022 by KPKeelan

TRUMBO (directed by Jay Roach, 2015) ***+ (out of 5) . > I did not know much about the intellectual character that was Dalton Trumbo. . I had read his searing anti-war novel from 1938 JOHNNY GET YOUR GUN, and I … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged American history, art, biography, Bryan Cranston, cinema, criticism, Dalton Trumbo, David James Elliott, Diane Lane, drama, Edward G. Robinson, Ellie Fanning, films, Hedda Hopper, Helen Mirren, ideas, Jay Roach, John Goodman, John Wayne, Johnny Get Your Gun, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Louis C.K., Michael Stuhlbarg, movies, opinion, reviews, Trumbo, 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 (86): The Films of April 2019

Posted on July 10, 2021 by KPKeelan

. APRIL! The earth keeps turning. And away we go… (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to receive a full 5 stars.) (Titles in purple have been expanded for Flix Pix … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Adam McKay, alcoholism, Alex Honnold, All the Way, American history, Americana, Amy Adams, Anthony Mackie, art, Bing Crosby, biography, Boy Erased, Bradley Whitford, Bryan Cranston, Burning, capers, Christian Bale, cinema, classics, Closed Curtain, Colin Farrell, comedy, Damien Chazelle, Danny DeVito, Dead in a Week Or Your Money Back, Dick Cheney, Disney, documentaries, drama, Dumbo, El Capitan, ethics, F.W. Murnau, fantasy, films, First Man, Frank Capra, Frank Langella, Free Solo, freeclimbing, Gary Cooper, gay conversion therapy, German cinema, Grace Kelly, Hal Roach, heists, hitmen, horror, Iranian cinema, Italian cinema, Jafar Panahi, Jean Arthur, Jessica Harper, Joel Edgerton, Kevin Keelan, Korean cinema, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lady Bird Johnson, Last Flag Flying, Laurence Fishburne, LBJ, Liam Neeson, Lucas Hedges, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Lynne Cheney, Martin Luther King, Melissa Leo, Michael Keaton, morality, mountain climbing, movies, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, music, Muslim culture, National Geographic, Neil Armstrong, Netflix, Nicole Kidman, Nosferatu, obsession, opinion, politics, power, Quincy, Quincy Jones, relationships, repression, reviews, Richard Linklater, Richard Russell, Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling, Sam Rockwell, silent films, spaceflight, special effects, Steve Carell, Steve McQueen, Steven Spielberg, Steven Yeun, surrealism, Suspiria, The Circus, The Country Girl, Tim Burton, Tom Wilkinson, tragedy, vampires, veterans, Vice, Viola Davis, war, Widows, William Holden | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (74): The Films of April 2018

Posted on June 28, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Hello fellow cinephiles! Greetings, fellow cultural acolytes! Let’s get busy. (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 Pix … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Alison Brie, American Made, animation, art, Barry Seal, Bill Murray, biography, Bob Balaban, Bryan Cranston, Chris O’Dowd, CIA, cinema, comedy, crime, Dave Franco, documentaries, Domhnall Gleeson, Doug Liman, drugs, Edward Norton, F. Murray Abraham, Ferguson Missouri, film, film criticism, filmmaking, Frances McDormand, gambling, Greta Gerwig, Harvey Keitel, Idris Elba, Isle of Dogs, Jacki Weaver, James Franco, Jeff Goldblum, Jeremy Irons, Jessica Chastain, Jonas Jonasson, Justice League, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Loving Vincent, Michael Brown, Molly’s Game, movies, My Life Inside The Room, opinion, reviews, Saoirse Ronan, Scarlett Johansson, Seth Rogan, superheroes, Swedish cinema, The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out On The Bill And Disappeared, The Disaster Artist, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, Tom Cruise, Tommy Wiseau, Vincent Van Gogh, Wes Anderson, Whose Streets?, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

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KPK on the Cinema: (137): “The Films of July 2023”

Flix Pix (1098): “Put On Your Space Suit and Go See ASTEROID CITY”

FLIX PIX (907): “KPK Has a Look at EL CAMINO: A Breaking Bad Movie”

FLIX PIX (806): “From The Last Detail to LAST FLAG FLYING”

FLIX PIX (753): “Go ‘ALL THE WAY’ With L.B.J.”

FLIX PIX (485): “A Delightful Jaunt to the ISLE OF DOGS”

FLIX PIX (446): “TRUMBO, and the Tragedy of Hollywood Blacklisting”

KPK on the CINEMA (86): The Films of April 2019

KPK on the CINEMA (74): The Films of April 2018

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