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FLIX PIX (1231): “Dash Shaw Laments: MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA!”

Posted on April 11, 2024 by KPKeelan

MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA (directed by Dash Shaw, 2016) *** (out of 5) * > Animator Dash Shaw made this colorful, kinetic animated disaster flick using “limited animation” techniques to good effect. . There is a strong … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged animation, arts, cinema, criticism, Dash Shaw, disaster films, earthquakes, entertainment, fantasy, films, floods, friendship, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, opinion, reviews, survival, teenagers, tragedy | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1162): “If You DON’T LOOK UP, That Doesn’t Mean the Asteroid Isn’t There!”

Posted on December 16, 2023 by KPKeelan

DON‘T LOOK UP (directed by Adam McKay, 2021) ****+ (out of 5) . > Adam McKay is da man! . I find it terrifically curious that this broad satire of modern media denialism is so controversial. It’s a comedy, people. Lighten … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Adam McKay, Ariana Grande, arts, Ashleigh Banfield, Cate Blanchett, Chris Evans, cinema, criticism, disaster films, Don’t Look Up, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, global warming, Himesh Patel, ideas, Jennifer Lawrence, Jonah Hill, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Leonardo DiCaprio, Liev Schreiber, Mark Rylance, Meryl Streep, movies, opinion, reviews, Ron Perlman, Sarah Silverman, social satire, Timothée Chalamet, Tyler Perry | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (516): “Catch THE WAVE”

Posted on May 4, 2022 by KPKeelan

THE WAVE (directed by Roar Uthaug, 2015) **** (out of 5) . > Norwegian director Roar Uthaug delivers exactly what I want from this kind of thriller: seat-squirming, nail-biting, face-flushing tension and nearly unbearable suspense that almost drives one to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, cinema, criticism, disaster films, drama, emergencies, films, floods, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, Norway, Norwegian cinema, opinion, reviews, Roar Uthaug, The Wave | Leave a comment

“KPK Looks at the 2021 BEST PICTURE Nominees” (by KPKeelan)

Posted on March 21, 2022 by KPKeelan

. BELFAST CODA DON’T LOOK UP DRIVE MY CAR DUNE KING RICHARD LICORICE PIZZA NIGHTMARE ALLEY THE POWER OF THE DOG WEST SIDE STORY – – – – – – BELFAST (directed by Kenneth Branagh) ****+ > Altogether, over 14 … Continue reading →

Posted in QUIET in the BACK! | Tagged abuse, Academy Awards, Adam McKay, Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose, Ariana Grande, arts, Ashleigh Banfield, Aunjanue Ellis, Australian cinema, Bardem, Belfast, Benedict Cumberbatch, biography, Bradley Cooper, carnies, Cate Blanchett, Catholics, Charlotte Rampling, childhood, children of deaf adults, Chris Evans, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, climate change, Coda, coming of age, con men, conflict, criticism, Dave Bautista, David Alvarez, David Strathairn, deafness, Denis Villeneuve, disability, disaster films, division, Don’t Look Up, drama, Drive My Car, Dune, economics, Emilia Jones, entertainment, epics, Eugenio Derbez, families, fantasy, film criticism, film noir, films, Frank Herbert, fraud, gangs, gentrification, global warming, grifters, Guillermo Del Toro, Himesh Patel, ideas, Irish politics, Jane Campion, Jason Momoa, Jennifer Lawrence, Jesse Plemons, Jonah Hill, Josh Brolin, Jude Hill, Judi Dench, Keith Carradine, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Keelan, Kiersten Dunst, King Richard, Kodi Smit-McPhee, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Leonard Bernstein, Leonardo DiCaprio, Licorice Pizza, Liev Schreiber, Mark Rylance, Marlee Matlin, Mary Steenburgen, memory, Meryl Streep, movies, musicals, Nightmare Alley, Northern Ireland, opinion, Oscar Isaac, Oscar nominees, parenting, Paul Thomas Anderson, Protestants, Rachel Zegler, Reinaldo Marcus Green, relationships, religion, remakes, revenge, reviews, Richard Jenkins, Richard Williams, romance, Romeo and Juliet, Ron Perlman, Rooney Mara, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Sarah Silverman, Serena Williams, Sian Heder, social satire, spiritualism, sports films, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen Sondheim, Steven Spielberg, success, suggestions, tennis, The Power of the Dog, the troubles, Tim Blake Nelson, Timothée Chalamet, Toni Collette, tragedy, tribalism, Troy Kotsur, Tyler Perry, Venus Williams, violence, West Side Story, westerns, Will Smith, Willem Dafoe, Zendaya | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (118): The Films of December 2021

Posted on February 20, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > Another December- another year-end rush of great movies! (All films are rated on a 5 star basis and must be over a decade old to get 5 stars.) > This month I have some fun reviewing the following … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 007, A Rainy Day in New York, Aardman Studios, absurdism, abuse, action, Adam McKay, addiction, Adrien Brody, Alejandro Jodorowsky, animation, Anjelica Huston, Anthony Bourdain, Ariana Grande, Arthur Hiller, Ashleigh Banfield, Australian cinema, B-movies, Ben Whishaw, Beneath the Planet of the Apes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Benicio Del Toro, Bill Murray, biography, Bob Balaban, Bob Cummings, brainwashing, British secret service, California, Cartoon Salon, Cate Blanchett, Charlton Heston, Cherry Jones, childhood, children, children of deaf adults, Chris Evans, Christoph Waltz, cinema, Coda, comedies, comedy, coming of age, conflict, conformity, cooking, corporate influence, criticism, culture, Dakota Johnson, Daniel Craig, death, Demián Bichir, depression, Diego Luna, Diego Maradona, Dirk Bogarde, disaster films, documentaries, Don Pedro Colley, Donald Sutherland, Don’t Look Up, Down’s Syndrome, drama, economics, Edward Norton, Elisabeth Moss, Elle Fanning, Emilia Jones, English cinema, entertainment, Ernst Lubitsch, espionage, estrangement, Eugenio Derbez, experimentation, exploitation, families, family, family drama, Fando y Lis, fantasy, fate, Filippo Scotti, film criticism, filmmaking, films, folktales, football, forgiveness, Frances McDormand, friendship, German cinema, global warming, grief, Henry Winkler, Hermione Gingold, Himesh Patel, humor, Ian Fleming, ideas, improvisation, independent films, individuality, Irish cinema, Irish folklore, isolation, Italian cinema, Italy, James Bond, James Franciscus, Jane Campion, Jason Schwartzman, Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Lawrence, Jesse Plemons, John Cassavetes, John Hawkes, Jonah Hill, Jude Law, Julieta, Karl Malden, Keenan Wynn, Keith Carradine, Kevin Keelan, Kiersten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, land, Lashana Lynch, Léa Seydoux, legends, Leonardo DiCaprio, Leslie Caron, Liev Schreiber, life, Liiev Schreiber, Linda Harrison, Locksmith Animation, Lois Smith, manipulation, Mark Rylance, marketing, Marlee Matlin, Marlon Brando, Mathieu Amalric, Meryl Streep, metaphor, Mexican cinema, mind control, Monterey, mothers and daughters, movies, Naomie Harris, Naples, New York, New York City, No Time to Die, One Eyed Jacks, opinion, Owen Wilson, Paolo Sorrentino, Pedro Almodovar, peer pressure, people, personalities, pro wrestling, Promise Her Anything, psychological drama, race, Ralph Finnes, Rami Malek, Rebecca Hall, relationships, research, revenge, reviews, road trips, Roadrunner, Robin Wright, robots, romance, Ron Perlman, Ron’s Gone Wrong, Rory Kinnear, Saoirse Ronan, Sarah Silverman, sci-fi, science, science fiction, Selena Gomez, self esteem, sequels, Shadows, Shia LaBeouf, silent films, soccer, social criticism, social media, social satire, Spanish cinema, spies, suicide, supernatural, superstition, surrealism, survival, symbolism, technology, The Doll, The French Dispatch, The Hand of God, The Mind Benders, The Peanut Butter Falcon, The Power of the Dog, Thomas Haden Church, Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet, tragedy, travel, Troy Kotsur, Tyler Perry, values, Victor Buono, Warren Beatty, Wes Anderson, westerns, Willem Dafoe, William Peter Blatty, Wolfwalkers, Woody Allen, Zach Galifianakis, Zack Gottsagen | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (113): The Films of July 2021

Posted on August 6, 2021 by KPKeelan

. This month: Fantasy! Film Noir! Psychological Drama! Comedy! Superheroes! Biblical Silliness! Biography! Animation! Environmental Disaster! Crime and Punishment at the F.B.I.! Another coming-of-age story from Judd Apatow! Social Satire from Jean Renoir! A serial murderer on the loose! The … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 1906, action, American history, Angela Lansbury, animation, art, Bible stories, biblical epics, Billy Cook, biography, Black Panthers, Body and Soul, Boudu Saved From Drowning, boxing, California history, Chris Pine, cinema, Clark Gable, class, comedy, comic book characters, corruption, crime, criticism, D.W. Griffith, Daniel Kaluuya, death, Death Takes a Holiday, disaster films, Don Hertzfeldt, drama, earthquakes, entertainment, experimental, F.B.I., fantasy, film noir, films, France, Frederick March, French cinema, Gal Godot, genius, George Sanders, George Tobias, Grim Reaper, Hedy Lamarr, Herbert Anderson, heroes, heroines, Ida Lupino, ideas, illness, It’s Such a Beautiful Day, Jean Renoir, Jean Seberg, Jeanette MacDonald, Jesse Plemons, John Garfield, Judas and the Black Messiah, Kevin Keelan, kidnapping, killers, Kirsten Wiig, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, LaKeith Stanfield, Lilith, love, Lynda Carter, Martin Sheen, mental illness, movies, murder, musicals, opinion, Pablo Pascal, Percy Anderson, Peter Fonda, race, redemption, reviews, Robert Rossen, Robert Ryan, Robert Wise, romance, Samson and Delilah, San Francisco, Spenser Tracy, superheroes, supernatural, The Hitch-Hiker, the meaning of life, The Set-Up, Victor Mature. D. W Griffith, W. S. Van Dyke, Walk a Crooked Mile, Warren Beatty, Wonder Woman 1984 | 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 (100): The Films of JUNE 2020

Posted on July 24, 2021 by KPKeelan

. JUNE 2020 was a busy film month! Not much else to do, if you have no sex partner and you can hardly heave the house! In this bunch, we get comedies, romances, dramas, animation, film noir, sci-fi, horror, caper … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 10cc, 8½, A Boy and His Dog, A Ship to India, Abbas Kiarostami, abuse, addiction, Adventures in Psychedelics, Akira Kurosawa, Alan King, And Life Goes On, Andy Richter, Andy Williams, animals, animation, Anthony Bourdain, ants, art, assistants, bank robbers, Barbara Bel Geddes, battle of the sexes, belief, belonging, Ben Stiller, betrayal, Bill Kreutzmann, biography, Birger Malmsten, Blake Edwards, Book of Exodus, brotherhood, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Bunny Lake is Missing, Burt Lancaster, Canadian films, capers, Carrie Fisher, celebrity, censorship, Cesar Romero, Chadwick Boseman, Charles Bronson, childhood, Christopher Walken, cinema, class, classics, Cold Turkey, comedies, coming of age, Communism, composers, crime, criticism, Czech cinema, Czechoslovakia, Da 5 Bloods, dada, Dan Duryea, Danny Kaye, Dash Shaw, David Cross, Deepak Chopra, Delmer Daves, Delroy Lindo, destruction, Dianne Foster, Diary of a Chambermaid, Dick Van Dyke, disaster films, documentaries, Don Johnson, Donald O’Connor, Donovon, drama, Drive a Crooked Road, drugs, Dyan Cannon, dystopia, earthquakes, Emilio D'Alessandro, emotion, environment, Ernest Borgnine, Experiment in Terror, faith, families, family secrets, fantasy, farce, fascism, fathers and sons, Federico Fellini, feminism, film history, film noir, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, folktales, Frankenstein, Fred MacMurray, Fred Willard, French cinema, friendship, Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Gaza, Gene Kelly, General Francisco Franco, George C. Scott, Georgina Hale, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, God, God Went Surfing With the Devil, Guns N' Roses, Harlan Ellison, Have a Good Trip, Helen Gurley Brown, Henry Fonda, Herb Alpert, historical drama, Holger Löwenadler, hope, horror, humor, hunger, hypocrisy, ideas, identity, illness, Ingmar Bergman, injustice, insecurity, Iran, Iranian cinema, Israeli cinema, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jacques Tati, Jane Mansfield, Japanese cinema, jazz, jealousy, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, Jesus, Jews, John Lennon, Jour de Fête, journalism, Judaism, Karl Malden, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kevin McCarthy, kidnapping, Kier Dullea, Kim Novak, Koker, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lacey Schwartz, Land Without Bread, Las Hurdes, Lauren Bacall, Laurence Olivier, L’Age D’Or, Led Zeppelin, Lee Marvin, Lee Remick, legends, Lewis Black, lies, life, Life and Nothing More, Little White Lie, Louis Armstrong, LSD, Luis Buñuel, Mahler, Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Martin Balsom, Mélanie Thierry, metaphor, Michael Murphy, Mickey Rooney, Miloš Forman, monsters, Moses, movies, murder, musicals, musicians, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, Natalie Wood, Natasha, Natasha Lyonne, Natural disasters, Netflix, Nick Kroll, Nigel Davenport, Nina Paley, Noel Coward, Norman Lear, Oingo Boingo, opinion, oppression, Otto Preminger, Palestinians, parenting, peace, people, Phase IV, poverty, psychoactive substances, psychological drama, PTSD, Pushover, Quincy Jones, race, racism, Ramón Acín, Red Nichols, relationships, religion, resilience, reviews, Richard Quine, Rob Corddry, Robert Powell, romance, Rosie Perez, Ross Martin, S is For Stanley, sacrifice, Salvador Dalí, Sarah Silverman, Satchmo, satire, Saul Bass, scandals, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Connery, Seder-Masochism, self doubt, Sex and the Single Girl, sexism, sexual politics, Sidney Lumet, sight gags, sisters, slapstick, smoking, social criticism, social justice, soldiers, Spain, Spanish cinema, Spike Lee, Stanley Kubrick, Stefanie Powers, Sting, stories, suffering, surfing, surrealism, surrealists, surveillance, suspense, Swedish cinema, symbolism, tabloids, teenage sexuality, teenagers, terrorism, The Age of Gold, The Anderson Tapes, the Bible, The Big Heat, The Burglar, the Church, The Firemen’s Ball, The Five Pennies, The Four Tops, The Hanging Tree, The Holy Land, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail, The Pointer Sisters, The Spirit of the Beehive, the state, thriller, tobacco companies, Tony Curtis, tradition, tragedy, Tuesday Weld, Vera Cruz, Victor Erice, Vietnam War, violence, westerns, Will Forte, writer’s block, Zach Leary | 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

KPK on the CINEMA (75): The Films of May 2018

Posted on June 29, 2021 by KPKeelan

. “YO”, he said. Welcome back minions. The harvest is modest this month, but cinema is always a blessing. CHEERS. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Hologram For the King, annihilation, Aquarius, art, Brazilian cinema, cinema, comedy, dada, Dave Eggars, disaster films, drama, dreams, Dreams That Money Can Buy, Emma Watson, experimental film, families, film, film criticism, gentrification, Glenne Headly, Hans Rictor, horror, John Boyega, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, movies, Natalie Portman, nightmares, nuclear power, opinion, Oscar Isaac, Pandora, Park Jung-woo, Patton Oswalt, Pill Paxton, privacy, reviews, Rio de Janeiro, romance, Saudi Arabia, science fiction, surrealism, technology, The Circle, thrillers, Tom Hanks | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: disaster films

FLIX PIX (1231): “Dash Shaw Laments: MY ENTIRE HIGH SCHOOL SINKING INTO THE SEA!”

FLIX PIX (516): “Catch THE WAVE”

KPK on the CINEMA (113): The Films of July 2021

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

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

KPK on the CINEMA (75): The Films of May 2018

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