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FLIX PIX (1196): “Disney’s Dazzling Misfire STRANGE WORLD”

Posted on February 20, 2024 by KPKeelan

. STRANGE WORLD (directed by Don Hall, 2022) *** (out of 5) . > Disney released this big colorful animated fantasy to high hopes, followed by crushing disappointment. It ended up being one of the biggest bombs the legacy studio has ever … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged adventure, allegory, arts, cinema, criticism, Dennis Quaid, Disney animation, Don Hall, ecology, entertainment, environment, explorers, fantasy, films, Flix Pix, ideas, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lucy Liu, movies, opinion, Randy Quaid, reviews, Strange World, sustainability | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (142): “The Films of December 2023”

Posted on January 1, 2024 by KPKeelan

. > All hail December, the time of year most of the really great stuff hits America’s big silver screens (O the joy!), and tiny streaming devices (O, the horror!). Just check out how many of these titles came out in … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 20 Days in Mariupol, A Christmas Carol, A.O. Scott, Aardman Studios, Aaron Copland, Aaron Sorkin, ABC TV, action, actresses, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Adir Miller, Adolph Green, adventure, aggression, Alasdair Gray, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, Alexander Payne, allegory, Amanda Plummer, American history, American politics, American Symphony, amnesia, Andy Richter, animation, Anne Baxter, Anne Hathaway, Annette Bening, anthologies, Anthony Hopkins, anti-Semitism, Anwar Sadat, Armageddon Time, artists, arts, attachments, Audra McDonald, Banks Repeta, Barack Obama, Bayard Rustin, Bella Ramsey, Ben Gazzara, Ben Kingsley, Betty Comden, Bill Irwin, biography, biopics, blaxploitation, Bob Balaban, Bob Costas, Bradley Cooper, Branford Marsalis, Brian de Palma, British cinema, Britt Ekland, brutality, Bullworth, bullying, cancer, Carey Mulligan, Carol For Another Christmas, Celine Song, Charles Laughton, Charles Melton, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Chris Rock, Christian Bale, Christine Baranski, cinema, civil rights, Colman Domingo, comedians, comedies, comedy, coming of age, con artists, conductors, conscience, conspiracies, Coretta Scott King, creativity, criticism, Cuba, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dave Bautista, David Alan Grier, David Cross, David Griffin, David Zucker, death, Dennis Quaid, determination, Diana Nyad, diplomacy, Disney animation, documentaries, documentary, Dominic Sessa, Don Cheadle, Doris Kearns Goodwin, drama, Drew Barrymore, Duncan Jones, dystopia, ecology, Emma Stone, endurance swimming, entertainment, environment, environmental disasters, equality, Eric Bana, escape, Ethan Hawke, Eva Marie Saint, exploitation, explorers, fame, families, fantasy, farce, Farley Granger, Felicia Montealegre, feminism, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, Florence Pugh, Florida, folk heroes, Francis Ford Coppola, Frankenstein, fraud, Fred Allen, friendship, gender roles, genius, George Hamilton, George Kennedy, George Lucas, Golda, Golda Meir, Greta Lee, grief, grifters, Halle Berry, Harrison Ford, Hayao Miyazaki, Hayley Atwell, HBO, Helen Mirren, Henry Hathaway, Henry King, Henry Kissinger, Henry Koster, history, Holly Hunter, homosexuality, horror, Howard Hawks, humor, I Love You Again, ideas, Imelda Staunton, Indians, injustice, insanity, invasion, irony, isolationism, Israel, Israeli cinema, Israeli history, J. 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S. Van Dyke, Wanda Sykes, war, war crimes, Warren Beatty, westerns, Willem Dafoe, William Powell, William Sydney Porter, writers, Yom Kippur War | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (454): “Disney’s FINDING DORY”

Posted on April 3, 2022 by KPKeelan

FINDING DORY (directed by Andrew Stanton & Angus MacLane, 2016) ***+ (out of 5) . > This pleasant, entertaining sequel to Disney/Pixar’s very popular FINDING NEMO was one for the record books. . In its initial theatrical run, DORY became destined … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Albert Brooks, Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane, art, cinema, criticism, Diane Keaton, Disney animation, Ellen DeGeneres, Eugene Levy, films, Finding Dory, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, ocean life, opinion, relationships, reviews | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (120): The Films of February 2022″

Posted on March 25, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > February is here, and before the end of the month: the Oscar nominations. This year, I on on it, baby! The quest to see all the previous year’s most celebrated films is on. Titles in PURPLE have been … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 101 Dalmatians, A.I., About Endlessness, action, adventure, Afghanistan, aging, Alex Trebek, Alicia Vikander, Alzheimer’s, ambition, America America, animation, artificial intelligence, arts, Barry Keoghan, Bigbug, biographies, Bradley Cooper, carnies, Cate Blanchett, Channing Tatum, child abuse, cinema, classics, Columbian refugees, comedies, comedy, coming of age, con artists, crime, criminals, criticism, Cruella, Daniel Brühl, Danish cinema, David Gordon Green, David Lowery, David Strathairn, death, Dev Patel, diaspora, Dick Johnson is Dead, Disney, Disney animation, documentaries, drama, Dwayne Johnson, dying, dystopia, Elia Kazan, emigration, Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Encanto, England, entertainment, espionage, families, family, fantasy, fascism, fashion, fate, film noir, films, Flee, fraud, Free Guy, French cinema, Gael García Bernal, Greece, Greek emigration, grief, grifters, Grigori Rasputin, Guillermo Del Toro, hope, human life, human rights, human trafficking, Humphrey Bogart, ideas, immigrants, Jack Farthing, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jodie Comer, Joe, Joel Edgerton, John Huston The Green Knight, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Kaiser Wilhelm, karma, Kevin Keelan, King George, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kristen Stewart, Lady Diana, life, Lin-Manuel Miranda, love, M. Night Shyamalan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary Steenburgen, memory, motherhood, movies, musicals, Netflix, Nicholas Cage, Nightmare Alley, obsession, Old, Olivia Coleman, online gaming, opinion, origin stories, people, Peter Lorre, philosophy, poverty, prequels, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Ralph Fiennes, refugees, remakes, responsibility, revenge, reviews, Rhys Ifans, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, Rooney Mara, Roy Andersson, royal family, royalty, Rufus Sewell, Ryan Reynolds, Sally Hawkins, satire, science fiction, Sean Harris, sequels, smuggling, social criticism, social satire, Spencer, spies, Stanley Tucci, Stathis Giallelis, supernatural, Surface Pressure, surrealism, Swedish cinema, Sydney Greenstreet, Taika Waititi, technology, The Future, the Internet of everything, The King's Man, The Lost Daughter, The Maltese Falcon, The Mitchells Vs. The Machine, Thomasin McKenzie, Tim Blake Nelson, Timothy Spall, Tom Hollander, Toni Collette, tragedy, Tsar Nicholas, Tye Sheridan, villains, We Don’t Talk About Bruno, Willem Dafoe, World War I | 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

FLIX PIX (154): “The Marvelous Zoo of ZOOTOPIA”

Posted on September 16, 2021 by KPKeelan

ZOOTOPIA (directed by Byron Howard & Rich Moore, 2016) ****+ (out of 5) . > Critics absolutely loved this Disney animated treat, and audiences seemed to agree. Count me in! . Even though this project sounded silly and childish and … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Byron Howard, cinema, Disney animation, film criticism, films, Idris Elba, Jason Bateman, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, reviews, Rich Moore, Shakira, Zootopia | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (66): The Films of AUGUST 2017

Posted on June 20, 2021 by KPKeelan

. This month we got us some history, some biography, some animation, some film noir- old and new, some rock ’n’ roll, new chapters in both the Planet of the Apes series and the Jason Bourne franchise, some great finds and one … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 49th Parallel, A Coffee in Berlin, A Dame to Kill For, ACLU, action, Alicia Vikander, Amy Sedaris, Andy Serkis, art, biography, Bruce Willis, Cameraperson, Canada, Captain Fantastic, Chasing Coral, Chicken Little, Christopher Lloyd, cinema, cinematography, collage films, comedy, Cosme McMoon, criticism, culture, Danish cinema, Denmark, Dennis Haysbert, Derek Flint, Disney animation, documentaries, Don Knotts, drama, drones, Eat That Question, Errol Morris, families, film, Florence Foster Jenkins, Frank Langella, Frank Zappa, Garry Marshall, German cinema, Get Out, Gloria Grahame, Glynis Johns, horror, Hugh Grant, Humphrey Bogart, In a Lonely Place, In Like Flint, Jack Valenti, Jackie, Jackie Kennedy, James Coburn, Jan-Ole Gerster, Jason Bourne, Jessica Alba, Joel Edgerton, John Huston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Brolin, Julia Styles, Kevin Keelan, Kirsten Johnson, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Land of Mine, landmines, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Howard, Let There Be Light, Liberties Union, love, loving, marriage, Matt Damon, Matt Reeves, Meryl Streep, Mickey Roarke, motion-capture artists, movies, music, Natalie Portman, National Bird, Nazis, Nicholas Ray, parody, Patrick Stewart, Paul Greengrass, philosophy, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Powers Boothe, propaganda, PTSD, Ray Liotta, Raymond Massey, reviews, Roasrio Dawson, Roland Møller, romance, Ruth Negga, satire, science fiction, sequels, shell shock, Simon Helberg, Sin City, Stacy Keach, Steve Zahn, terrorists, therapy, thriller, Viggo Mortensen, War For the Planet of the Apes, war on terror, Wim Wenders, wit, Woody Harrelson, World War II, Zach Branff | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (61): The Films of MARCH 2017

Posted on June 15, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Gird your loins! This is another weighty one. Somehow, I averaged more than one movie per day… (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles in … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Sound of Thunder, Alex R. Hibbert, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Amy Adams, animation, Anne Bancroft, Ant-Man, Apollonia, Arielle Holmes, Arrival, art, Arthur Kennedy, Ashton Sanders, Álvaro Longoria, Barry Jenkins, Bela Lugosi, Ben Kingsley, Bert Freed, Bill Wyman, Brian Keith, Burn, Burt Reynolds, Café Society, Caleb Landry Jones, Catherine McCormack, Charlie Watts, Choi Eun-hee, Christopher Lee, cinema, Crossfire Hurricane, David Oyelowo, Dean Martin, Denis Villeneuve, Dennis Hopper, Dheepan, Disney animation, documentaries, Don’t Bother to Knock, DPNK, drama, Dressed to Kill, Dwayne Johnson, Earl Holliman, Edgar Allen Poe, Edward Burns, Edward Snowden, Elmer Bernstein, Eugene Cernan, Extraordinary Tales, fantasy, film, For the Love of Spock, Forest Whitaker, Frederick Lau, George Kennedy, Girlfriend’s Day, Grandma, Heaven Knows What, history, Howard Da Silva, Iranian cinema, Ixcanul, James Gregory, James Westerfield, Jean Renoir, Jeannie Berlin, Jeremy Renner, Jesse Eisenberg, John Doucette, John Wayne, Johnny Depp, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Josh Safdie, Julian Sands, Jupiter Ascending, Karl Malden, Keith Richards, Ken Stott, Kevin Keelan, Kim Jong Il, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kristen Stewart, Laia Costa, Leonard Nimoy, Lewis Carroll, Lily Tomlin, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lloyd Nolan, Mahershala Ali, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Martin Landau, Melissa Leo, Mia Wasikowska, Mick Jagger, Mike Shayne, Mila Kunis, Moana, Moana With Sound, Moonlight, Morituri, Morris Day, movies, Naomie Harris, Netflix, Nevada Smith, Nicholas Cage, Oliver Stone, opinion, Pat Hingle, Paul Fix, Paul Rudd, Paul Weitz, Percy Helton, Peter Yates, Prince, Purple Rain, Raf Vallone, Raul Garcia, Ray Bradbury, refugees, reviews, Rhys Ifans, Rhys Williams, Richard Widmark, Robert J. Flaherty, Rolling Stones, Sacha Baron Cohen, Sausage Party, science fiction, Sebastian Schipper, Seth Rogan, Shailene Woodley, Shin Sang-ok, Snowden, Sri Lanka, Stanley Adams, Star Trek, Steve Carell, Steve McQueen, Strother Martin, Suzanne Pleshette, Tamil Tigers, Tatum Channing, The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Fits, The Hunting Ground, The Last Man on the Moon, The Longest Yard, The Lovers and the Despot, The Mask of Red Death, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Propaganda Game, The Sons of Katie Elder, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Tribe, Tim Burton, Tom Wilkinson, Trevante Rhodes, Trevor Howard, Under the Shadow, Under the Sun, Victoria, Vitaly Mansky, Wally Cox, westerns, William Demarest, William Redfeld, Woody Allen, Yul Brynner, Zachary Quinto, Zin-mi | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Disney animation

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