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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

KPK on the CINEMA (141) “The Films of November 2023”

Posted on December 2, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > There goes November. Here comes the heavy hitters of Oscarbait season. Some good stuff this month- and I suspect, some great stuff next month! Let’s get started: (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Time For Drunken Horses, Abu Ghraib, adaptations, Adolphe Menjou, Alan J. Pakula, All the Light We Cannot See, American culture, Amy Sedaris, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, animation, Anthony Doerr, Aria Mia Loberti, armed conflict, artists, arts, Bahman Ghobadi, Barbara Sukowa, battle, Ben Kingsley, Ben Platt, biography, Bob Balaban, Brenda Vaccaro, Brian de Palma, British cinema, Cameron Mitchell, Catherine O'Hara, celebrity, Cheaper By the Dozen, child actors, child labor, child soldiers, cinema, circus, classics, Clifton Webb, Columbian cinema, comedies, comedy, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, conspiracies, crime, criminals, criticism, Cromwell, cults, culture, Dalíland, Dark City, Dermot Mulroney, Desperate Souls, Devi, directing, Disney, documentaries, drama, Edgar Allen Poe, Edward G. Robinson, Elemental, Elia Kazan, entertainment, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, escapes, espionage, European history, exploitation, fame, families, family, family films, fantasy, farce, fascism, filmmaking, films, France, Francis Lederer, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr., Fredric March, fundamentalism, Gala Dalí, gambling, Gloria Grahame, greed, guerillas, Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Hinduism, historical epics, history, horror, Hugh Laurie, Hume Cronyn, hysteria, ideas, Indian cinema, injustice, Iranian cinema, Joaquin Phoenix, John Cho, John Schlesinger, Jon Voight, Josephine, Jude Law, Julianne Nicholson, Kal Penn, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lars Eidinger, Liam Neeson, Louis Hoffman, love, Man on a Tightrope, Manos, Mark Ruffalo, marriage, Melissa McCarthy, Molly Gordon, movies, Myrna Loy, Nancy Buirski, Napoleon, nature, Nazis, Neil Patrick Harris, Netflix, Nick Lieberman, obsession, occupied France, opinion, Oscar Isaacs, parents, parody, patriarchy, Paul Lukas, Paul Schrader, Paula Prentiss, persecution, personalities, Pixar, political assassinations, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, precious gems, professional gamblers, PTSD, radio, rebels, relationships, religion, resistance fighters, revenge, reviews, Richard Boone, Ridley Scott, Rob Corddry, Robert Sherwood, romance, Rose Byrne, Saint-Malo, Salvador Dalí, satire, Satyajit Ray, screenwriting, sequels, smuggling, spectacle, spies, spirituality, spoofs, Spy, superstition, survival, The Card Counter, The Conqueror Worm, The Grey, The Parallax View, Theater Camp, thrillers, Tiffany Haddish, torture, totalitarianism, tradition, true stories, TV miniseries, Tye Sheridan, Vanessa Kirby, Vincent Price, violence, war, Warren Beatty, William Daniels, witch hunts, Witchfinder General, wolves, World War II, zealotry | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1150): “THE WICKER MAN Will Creep You the Fuck Out!”

Posted on November 18, 2023 by KPKeelan

THE WICKER MAN (directed by Robin Hardy, 1975) ***** (out of 5) . > Dubbed “the CITIZEN KANE of horror films”, this creepy sensation made a real impression on the teenage me. . I remember leaving the theater in a disturbed … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, Aubrey Morris, Brit Ekland, Christianity, Christopher Lee, cinema, crime, criticism, cults, Edward Woodward, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, horror, human sacrifice, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, murder, mystery, opinion, paganism, reviews, rites, rituals, Robin Hardy, Scotland, suspense, terror, The Wicker Man | Leave a comment

GUESTBOOK: “THE MOST DIVINE CON: My Time Inside a Religious Cult” (by Paul Drescher)

Posted on August 14, 2023 by KPKeelan

Posted in GUESTBOOK | Tagged brainwashing, con artists, cults, exploitation, fraud, grifters, gurus, hypocrisy, KPKworld, Paul Dresher, religion, spirituality | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (829): “MIDSOMMER Leaves a Deep Impression”

Posted on October 7, 2022 by KPKeelan

MIDSOMMAR (directed by Ari Aster, 2019) **** (out of 5) . > This new film by Ari Astor packs an unsettling wallop. . I was okay with his disquieting HEREDITY, but MIDSOMMAR really caught my imagination. . Current “It Girl” Florence … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Ari Aster, arts, cinema, criticism, cults, entertainment, films, Florence Pugh, horror, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, reviews, rites, rituals, Sweden, thrillers | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (560): “MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE and the Trauma of Indoctrination””

Posted on May 26, 2022 by KPKeelan

MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE (directed by Sean Durkin, 2010) ***+ (out of 5) . > After two years without contact with her family, a traumatized woman escapes from a predatory quasi-religious cult in rural New York and finds her way in … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, cinema, criticism, cults, drama, films, ideas, John Hawkes, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Martha Marcy May Marlene, movies, opinion, recovery, reviews, Sean Durkin, trauma | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (408): “The Unmitigated Weirdness of SANTA SANGRE”

Posted on March 11, 2022 by KPKeelan

SANTA SANGRE (directed by Alejandro Jojoworsky, 1989) ****+ (out of 5) . > I saw this typically weird, willfully lurid Alejandro Jodorowsky fantasia back in the early 90’s, and while most of the details faded with time, a few passages were … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Alejandro Jodorowsky, art, cinema, criticism, cults, fantasy, films, ideas, imagery, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, psychological drama, reviews, Santa Sangre, surrealism, symbolism | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (114): The Films of August 2021

Posted on November 7, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > THIS MONTH: Disney animation, Judy Holliday comedies, sly social satire, stark drama, film noir, experimental cinema, tales of obsession and coming of age, and vacuous British pop romance from the swinging sixties. (Sorry, no gothic horror documentaries this … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged abstract, action, adultery, adventure, aging, Alan Tudyk, Anna Faris, Anthony Hopkins, Asif Mandvi, autocrats, Awkwafina, Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Kingsley, Black Jack, British cinema, business, Carroll Baker, childhood, Chris Elliot, Chris Parnell, Clash by Night, classics, comedy, coming of age, corruption, crime, cults, Darling, dementia, depression, Diane Ladd, Dirk Bogarde, Disney animation, Doris Roberts, drama, Edward Norton, experimental film, families, fantasy, farce, female empowerment, film noir, Florian Zeller, fraud, Fred Armisen, Fritz Lang, Full of Life, George Cukor, grief, heroines, His Kind of Woman, humor, Imogen Poots, independent films, infidelity, Jack Carson, Jack Garfein, Jack Lemmon, Jane Russell, Jean Stapleton, Jim Backus, John C. Reilly, John Schlesinger, Judy Holliday, Julie Christie, Kathryn Hahn, Kelly Marie Tran, Ken Loach, Kim Novack, Laurence Harvey, life, London, love, madness, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Robson, marriage, memory loss, Monterey California, myth, Nasim Pedrad, Olivia Coleman, Paul Douglas, period pieces, Phffft, pregnancy, quests, Ralph Meeker, rape, Raya and the Last Dragon, Raymond Burr, relationships, Richard Conte, Richard Quine, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, romance, Rufus Sewell, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sandra Oh, satire, Schizopolis, sex, sexism, shareholders, slapstick, Something Wild, Southeast Asian culture, Steven Soderbergh, surrealism, The Dictator, The Father, The Marrying Kind, the sixties, The Solid Gold Cadillac, tragedy, trauma, trust, Vincent Price | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (112): The Films of June 2021

Posted on August 5, 2021 by KPKeelan

. No 5-star classics this month, but everything else is represented, from one-and-a-half miserable lumps to four-and-a-half dazzling stars. Enjoy ruminating with me! (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to be … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 007, action, addiction, afterlife, aging, alcoholism, ambition, Andrew Scott, Angela Lansbury, Anne Hathaway, anti-Semitism, Arabian Nights, Arabic literature, art, Ben Kingsley, Ben Wheatley, Better Days, Between Two Worlds, biography, British cinema, Broadway, bullying, camp, China, Chinese cinema, Chris Evans, Christian Petzold, cinema, Colossal, comedy, competition, composers, conflict, corruption, crime, criticism, Crock of Gold, cults, Cyd Charisse, Dean Martin, death, Derek Flint, dialogue, Dinah Shore, disasters, drama, Edmund Gwenn, Eleanor Parker, enemies, entertainment, escape, Ethiopia, Ethiopian Jews, Eugene O'Neill, fame, families, fantasy, films, Frank Sinatra, Franz Liszt, Gaoko exams, genius, George Tobias, Gerard Butler, German cinema, ghosts, Gower Champion, Greenland, Greg Kinnear, Haley Bennett, Heaven, hell, higher education, history, horror, House, ideas, identity, Irish music, Israel, Italian cinema, James Bond, Jason Sudeikis, Jerome Kern, Jews, John Garfield, judgement, Judy Garland, June Allyson, justice, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kill List, Korean cinema, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lena Horne, Lisztomania, live theatre, love, loyalty, Massad, Matt Helm, migration, monsters, movies, murder, musicals, musicians, negotiation, Operation Joshua, Operation Moses, opinion, Oslo, Oslo Peace Accords, P.L.O., Palestine, Palestinian Liberation Organization, parables, patriarchy, Paul Henried, Paul Robeson, Peace Accords, performers, persecution, Pier Paolo Pasolini, postwar Italy, power, race, realism, Red Sea Diving Resort, redemption, refugees, rescue, responsibility, reviews, Richard Wagner, Ringo Starr, Roger Daltry, romance, Ruth Wilson, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, sexism, sexuality, Shane MacGowan, showtunes, spoof, spy spoofs, stardom, Stella Stevens, success, Sudan, supernatural, surrealism, Sydney Greenstreet, The Book of One Thousand and One Nights, The Emperor Jones, The Pogues, The Popes, The Silencers, thrillers, Till the Clouds Roll By, tragedy, Transit, true stories, Umberto D., Van Heflin, Van Johnson, Victor Buono, violence, Vittorio de Sica, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (105): The Films of November 2020

Posted on July 29, 2021 by KPKeelan

. NOVEMBER 2020… Finally finished in March 2021! Slowly working my way through the backlog, with 31 down and 42 to go! (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 007, Aaron Copeland, action, Adam Driver, addiction, adultery, adventure, alcoholism, Alfred Hitchcock, American culture, Amy Adams, Andy Serkis, animation, Anthony Franciosa, anti-Semitism, Appalachia, Arte Johnson, Arthur Hill, arts, At the Circus, B-movies, Barbara Stanwyck, Bertrand Bonello, Billy Dee Williams, Bing Crosby, biography, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, brainwashing, Brie Larson, Bruce Dern, camp, Carrie Fisher, Cary Grant, Cecil Kellaway, Chico Marx, cinema, class, classics, Cole Porter, Colm Feore, comedies, comic books, coming of age, conflict, conscience, conspiracies, corporations, corruption, courtroom drama, crime, criticism, cults, cybercrime, dada, Daisy Ridley, detectives, Diane Baker, Dieudonné, documentaries, Domhnall Gleeson, Donald Pleasence, Dorothy Arzner, Dr. Seuss, drama, dysfunction, dystopia, End of Sentence, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, estrangement, exploitation, exposés, fairytales, families, fantasy, fascism, fathers and sons, Federico Fellini, films, Frank Oz, Frank Sinatra, fraud, Fredric March, French cinema, friendship, future, Gabriel Basso, genius, George Lucas, Glenn Close, Godfrey Cambridge, Grace Kelly, Gregory Chelli, grief, Groucho Marx, hackers, hacktivists, Haiti, Hans Christian Andersen, harassment, Harper, Harpo Marx, Harrison Ford, hate speech, hatred, Hedy Lamarr, Henry James, High Society, Hillbilly Elegy, hostages, Hume Cronyn, humor, I Married a Witch, I Vitelloni, Ian Fleming, Ian McDiarmid, ideas, inequality, infidelity, injustice, intimidation, Ireland, Israel, Italian cinema, J.D. Vance, J.J. Abrams, Jack MacGowran, Jacques Prévert, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Bond, James Caan, James Cagney, James Coburn, Jamie Foxx, Janet Leigh, Jean Gabin, Jean Renoir, Jews, Joan Blondell, Joanne Woodward, John Boyega, John Ford, John Garfield, John Hawkes, John Houseman, John Steinbeck, Jon Favreau, Judi Dench, Jules Verne, Julie Harris, Just Mercy, justice, Karl Urban, Keri Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, kitsch, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, La Bête Humaine, Lana Turner, Lauren Bacall, Lee J. Cobb, Les Gémeaux, Lew Harper, Lewis Gilbert, liberation, lies, Louis Armstrong, Louis Theroux, love, M.C. Escher, machismo, manipulation, Margaret Dumont, Maria Bakalova, Mariette Hartley, Marisa Tomei, Mark Hamill, Marnie, marriage, Marx brothers, masterpieces, Max Fleischer, Maxfield Parrish, Melanie Griffith, men, Merrily We Go to Hell, Metropolis, Michael B. Jordan, mocumentaries, Monterey, Montgomery Clift, morality, movies, murder, musicals, My Scientology Movie, mysteries, Netflix, noir, Norman Jewison, Olivia de Havilland, opinion, Oscar Isaac, Paul Grimault, Paul Newman, pirates, politics, poverty, pranks, psychological drama, race, racing, racism, Ralph Richardson, relationships, religion, René Clair, responsibility, retaliation, revenge, reviews, Richard E. Grant, rituals, Roald Dahl, Robert Wagner, Rollerball, Roman Polanski, romance, Ron Howard, Ross MacDonald, Rudolph Maté, Rudy Giuliani, Sacha Baron Cohen, Salvador Dalí, Samantha Eggar, Samuel L. Jackson, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Connery, secrets, sequels, Sharon Tate, Shelley Winters, Simone Simon, slapstick, slavery, social satire, Spencer Tracy, Spider-Man Far From Home, spies, sports, Star Wars, steampunk, Strother Martin, superheroes, supernatural, surrealism, Sylvia Sidney, symbolism, Thandie Newton, The Adventures of Tintin, The Chronicles of Riddick, The Crowd Roars, The Dark Past, The Drowning Pool, The Fearless Vampire Killers, The Future, The Heiress, The Human Beast, The King and the Mockingbird, The Layabouts, The Light at the Edge of the World, The Patriot, The Philadelphia Story, The Postman Always Rings Twice, The President’s Analyst, The Rise of Skywalker, The Shepherdess and the Chimney Sweep, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, Tim Blake Nelson, Tippi Hedren, Tom Holland, Tortilla Flat, totalitarianism, tragedy, Transylvania, trauma, Ulcan, values, vampires, Van Heflin, Veronica Lake, Victor Fleming, vigilantes, Vin Diesel, violence, voodoo, Walt Disney, Washington Square, Will Geer, William Daniels, William Holden, William Wyler, Wojciech Kilar, You Only Live Twice, Yul Brynner, Zendaya, Zombi Child, zombies, zombiism | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: cults

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

KPK on the CINEMA (141) “The Films of November 2023”

FLIX PIX (1150): “THE WICKER MAN Will Creep You the Fuck Out!”

GUESTBOOK: “THE MOST DIVINE CON: My Time Inside a Religious Cult” (by Paul Drescher)

FLIX PIX (829): “MIDSOMMER Leaves a Deep Impression”

FLIX PIX (560): “MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE and the Trauma of Indoctrination””

FLIX PIX (408): “The Unmitigated Weirdness of SANTA SANGRE”

KPK on the CINEMA (114): The Films of August 2021

KPK on the CINEMA (112): The Films of June 2021

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