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KPK on the CINEMA (147): “The Films of MAY 2024”

Posted on June 1, 2024 by KPKeelan

. > And away we go! (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to get 5 stars.) Titles in PURPLE have been expanded for Flix Pix columns > This month I review … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged adventure, Alfred Hitchcock, Amy Ryan, animation, anxiety, Ari Aster, Arthur Treacher, arts, Aubrey Plaza, Bao Nguyen, Beau is Afraid, Ben Hecht, Billy Joel, Blake Edwards, Bob Dylan, Bob Geldof, Brian Keith, Bruce Springsteen, buddy films, Burt Reynolds, childhood, cinema, classics, Clint Walker, comedies, comedy, coming of age, con artists, credit card fraud, crime, criticism, Cyndi Lauper, Dan Aykroyd, Dean Martin, desire, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Dorothy Lamour, drama, dysfunctional families, Edmund Gwenn, Emily the Criminal, entertainment, espionage, family, family films, famine relief, films, Foreign Correspondent, friendship, Gene Tierney, George Roy Hill, George Sanders, Geraldine Page, guilt, Harry Belafonte, Heidi, Henry Mancini, Hollywood, horror, Huey Lewis, I. S. Johar, ideas, India, injustice, IRA, Ireland, Irish Republican Army, Irish troubles, Jackie Gleason, Jay North, Joaquin Phoenix, Joel McCrea, John Berry, John Carradine, John Ford, John Ritter, Jon Hall, justice, Ken Kragen, Kenny Loggins, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, László Kovács, Lillian Hellman, Lionel Richie, M. Emmet Walsh, Mary Astor, Maya, metaphor, Michael Jackson, military life, moviemaking, movies, music documentary, Nathan Lane, Natural disasters, Netflix, Nickelodeon, opinion, Paranoia, Parker Posey, Patti LuPone, Paul Simon, Peter Bogdanovich, political thriller, Polynesia, Quincy Jones, Ralph Nelson, Ray Charles, Raymond Massey, recording sessions, relationships, resistance movements, retribution, reviews, romance, Ryan O'Neal, scams, Sheila E, Shirley Temple, silent movies, Smokey Robinson, Soldier In the Rain, songwriting, south seas, spies, Stella Stevens, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Steve McQueen, Stevie Wonder, surrealism, suspense, symbolism, Tatum O'Neal, The Greatest Night in Pop, The Hurricane, The Informer, Thomas Mitchell, Tina Turner, Toys in the Attic, tragedy, Tuesday Weld, Una O'Connor, Victor McLaglen, We Are the World, Wendy Hiller, William Goldman, Willie Nelson, Yvette Mimieux | Leave a comment

QuickPix (3): “Great COMEDIES For You to Savor, Vol. 1”

Posted on January 3, 2024 by KPKeelan

> Welcome to KPK’s “QuickPix”, a new feature here in KPKworld! These are 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in QuickPix | Tagged Argentine cinema, art, cinema, Coen brothers, college campuses, criticism, entertainment, espionage, Ethan Coen, films, George Clooney, Hollywood, humor, ideas, Joel Coen, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lili Palmer, movies, opinion, People Will Talk, QuickPix, race, racism, revenge, reviews, satire, schadenfreude, wit | 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

KPK on the CINEMA (140): “The Films of October 2023”

Posted on November 1, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > This month: a Noël Coward comedy of manners, a previously unseen Hitchcock thriller, a return to seminal swashbucklers of my youth, the Greatest Concert Film Ever Made, a silly Marx Brothers lark, Tracy and Hepburn meet Elia Kazan, … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged adventure, Africa, African safaris, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Hitchcock, American Indians, Angel on My Shoulder, Angie Dickinson, animation, Ann Margaret, Anne Baxter, Anthony Asquith, Anthony Perkins, appearances, Aramis, Archie Mayo, artists, arts, Athos, Australian outback, Ava Gardner, Barry Corbin, Beauty and the Beast, Bobby Rydell, British cinema, Bye Bye Birdie, celebrities, celebrity, Charlie Musselwhite, Chris Frantz, cinema, Clark Gable, class, classics, Claude Rains, collectives, comedies, comedy, concerts, corruption, crime, criticism, D'Artagnan, Dan Duryea, David Byrne, Dead Ringer, Dean Stockwell, Dick Van Dyke, divorce, documentaries, drama, Dyan Cannon, dysfunctional relationships, Ed Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Elemental, Elia Kazan, Elizabeth Taylor, Elke Sommer, empowerment, England, entertainment, epics, espionage, exploitation, fables, fairy tales, fame, fantasy, farming, feuds, films, France, Frank Finlay, fraud, French cinema, game trafficking, George Sidney, Go West, God, good and evil, Grace Kelly, greed, Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, HBO, Herbert Ross, Hume Cronyn, humor, Ian McShane, ideas, infidelity, injustice, intrigue, Jack White, James Colburn, James Garner, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Jean Cocteau, Jerry Harrison, Jesse Plemons, Jessica Tandy, Joan Hackett, John Ford, John Lithgow, John Qualen, Jonathan Demme, Joseph Cotton, justice, Karen Morley, Karl Malden, Katharine Hepburn, Kevin Keelan, Killers of the Flower Moon, King Vidor, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Last Stop Larrimah, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Lionel Barrymore, love, Maggie Smith, Margaret Rutherford, marriage, Martin Scorsese, Marx brothers, Maureen Stapelton, Melvyn Douglas, Michael York, Mogambo, morality, movies, murder, music, musicals, mystery, Noel Coward, Norma Shearer, Norman Jewison, Oliver Reed, opinion, Orson Welles, Osage Nation, Our Daily Bread, Paddy Moriarty, Paul Lynde, Paul Muni, personalities, Pete Yorn, Pixar, Porthos, poverty, Private Lives, privilege, racism, Raquel Welch, redemption, relationships, reviews, rich and famous, Richard Benjamin, Richard Burton, Richard Chamberlain, Richard Lester, Robert De Niro, Robert Montgomery, rock and roll, Rod Taylor, romance, Satan, Shadow of a Doubt, slapstick, small towns, socialism, Spencer Tracy, spies, Stephen Sondheim, Stop Making Sense, stunts, supernatural, survival, suspense, swashbuckling, Talking Heads, Tay Garnett, Terrence Rattigan, The Art of Love, the eighties, The Four Musketeers, the great depression, The Last of Sheila, The Sea of Grass, The Three Musketeers, The V.I.P.s, The Valley of Decision, Thornton Wilder, Tina Weymouth, Tom Keene, tragedy, violence, westerns, whodunnit | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (139): “The Films of September 2023”

Posted on October 1, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > Some real gems in the compendium this month. Even the lesser films were surprisingly entertaining. I enjoyed ‘em all. (Except for THE ROUNDERS. That was pretty stinky.) But my greatest pleasures seemed to come from revisiting past cinematic … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Aaron Paul, action, Adam West, adventure, Alfred Hitchcock, Alida Valli, American politics, apocalypse, Armageddon, Arthur Kennedy, arts, assassination, B-movies, Batman, Ben Kingsley, biblical epics, biography, British cinema, Bruce Wayne, Burgess Meredith, Burt Ward, camp, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Catwoman, Cedric Hardwicke, Cesar Romero, Changi Prison, Christian Bale, cinema, class, classics, Claude Rains, Colectiv Nightclub, Collective, comedy, comic books, coming of age, Communism, corruption, courtroom drama, crime, criminals, criticism, cult films, Dame May Whitty, Denholm Elliot, Dick Grayson, disasters, discipline, documentaries, drama, dramady, dystopia, Elizabeth Taylor, entertainment, espionage, Exodus God's and Kings, families, fantasy, Father's Little Dividend, films, fires, forgery, forgiveness, Frank Gorshin, fraud, gangsters, George Segal, Glenn Ford, Gordon Parks, government accountability, grandparents, Harvey Keitel, hitmen, hustlers, I Am Legend, ideas, Indians, Israeli cinema, James Fox, Jane Curtain, Joel Edgerton, John Huston, John Mills, John Turturro, justice, Kevin Keelan, King Rat, kitsch, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lee Israel, Lee Meriwether, Leonard Rossiter, Little Italy, Lloyd Bridges, mafia, Man in the Wilderness, manipulation, Margaret Lockwood, Marielle Heller, Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Redgrave, Mossad, mountain climbing, movies, mystery, mythology, native Americans, Nazis, Nazism, New York, opinion, Oscar Homolka, parenthood, Patrick O'Neal, politics, punishment, racism, rebellion, redemption, reform school, religion, revenge, reviews, Richard E. Grant, Richard Harris, Richard Matheson, Ridley Scott, Robert De Nero, Robin the Boy Wonder, romance, Romanian cinema, scandal, sci-fi, science fiction, Sigourney Weaver, Singapore, Spencer Tracy, spies, superheroes, supervillains, survival, Swiss Alps, The Joker, The Lady Vanishes, The Last Man on Earth, The Learning Tree, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Penguin, The Revenant, the Riddler, The White Tower, Tom Courtenay, Tom Courtnay, Tony Richardson, tragedy, Trial, Vincent Price, violence, Walk On Water, westerns, zombies | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (135) “The Films of May 2023”

Posted on June 15, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > With the impacts of the righteous writer’s strike hitting me first and hardest with the pause in my habitual late night yuks (Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel, Daily Show, John Oliver, Bill Maher, SNL), I have had a good deal … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 9 to 5, A Man Called Otto, A Raisin in the Sun, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, adventure, aliens, American history, ancient Rome, Ann Sheridan, arts, Atlantis: The Lost Continent, B-movies, Bernard Miles, biography, Boys Night Out, British cinema, Cary Grant, charity, Charles Laughton, Charlton Heston, cinema, classics, Claudia McNeil, Colin Higgins, comedy, coming of age, corruption, couples, criticism, Dabney Coleman, David Lean, desire, disasters, discrimination, docudrama, Dolly Parton, drama, Edward Platt, entertainment, epics, espionage, families, fantasy, farce, feminism, films, Five Million Years to Earth, fraud, Gary Cooper, gender roles, George Pal, Ginger Rogers, gladiators, Good Sam, government, HBO, history, honor, horror films, Howard Duff, Howard Morris, humor, ideas, In Which We Serve, inequity, intelligence leaks, James Cromwell, James Garner, Jane Fonda, Jean Simmons, Joe Dante, John Dall, John Gavin, John Goodman, John Mills, Julius Caesar, justice, Kathleen Turner, Kevin Keelan, Kim Novak, kindness, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, labor, Laurence Olivier, legend, Leo McCarey, Lily Tomlin, Lorraine Hansberry, Marc Forster, marriage, Matinee, money, movies, national security, Nazis, Noel Coward, Once Upon a Honeymoon, opinion, patriotism, persecution, Peter Ustinov, power, propaganda, race, racism, Raymond Massey, reality, Reality Winner, relationships, remakes, revenge, reviews, Richard Harris, Rob Reiner, romance, Ruth Gordon, sacrifice, sailors, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, seamen, sex, sexism, Sidney Poitier, slavery, Spartacus, spies, Stanley Kubrick, Steve Martin, Sydney Sweeney, the American dream, the Civil War, The Man With Two Brains, The Wreck of the Mary Deare, thrillers, Tom Hanks, Tony Curtis, Tony Randall, violence, whistleblowers, Woody Strode, workers, World War II | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1076): “Ralph Fiennes is THE KING’S MAN”

Posted on June 13, 2023 by KPKeelan

THE KING‘S MAN (directed by Matthew Vaughn, 2021) ***+ (out of 5) . > This third installment of the KINGSMAN series is an origin story that breaks the mold. . Simply, THE KING’S MAN is still fantasy, but this time with … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged action, adventure, arts, cinema, criticism, Daniel Brühl, entertainment, espionage, films, Flix Pix, Grigori Rasputin, ideas, Kaiser Wilhelm, Kevin Keelan, King George, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Matthew Vaughn, movies, opinion, Ralph Fiennes, reviews, Rhys Ifans, sequels, spies, Stanley Tucci, The King's Man, Tom Hollander, Tsar Nicholas, World War I | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1071): “REALITY Can Be a Bitch”

Posted on June 1, 2023 by KPKeelan

REALITY (directed by Tina Slatter, 2023) **** (out of 5) . > Sydney Sweeney is sheer dynamite as NSA whistleblower Reality Winner in this intense, claustrophobic docudrama. . Honestly, this HBO film might have been better titled: “The Interrogation of Reality … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, cinema, criticism, docudrama, entertainment, espionage, FBI, films, Flix Pix, government, HBO, history, ideas, intelligence leaks, interrogation, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, national security, NSA, opinion, reality, Reality Winner, reviews, Sydney Sweeney, transcripts, whistleblowers | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1040): “Mike Hammer Should Ignore Those Pleas to KISS ME DEADLY”

Posted on March 27, 2023 by KPKeelan

KISS ME DEADLY (directed by Robert Aldrich, 1955) ****+ (out of 5) . > Often considered a B-movie noir classic this over-the-top Cold War melodrama certainly pushed the boundaries of its time… . As hard as director Robert Aldrich could push, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, cinema, Cloris Leachman, corruption, criticism, detectives, entertainment, espionage, film noir, films, Flix Pix, gangsters, ideas, Jack Elam, Kevin Keelan, Kiss Me Deadly, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Mickey Spillane, Mike Hammer, movies, mystery, opinion, Ralph Meeker, reviews, Robert Aldrich, spies, Strother Martin, suspense, violence | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (131): “The Films of January 2023”

Posted on February 11, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > End of the year: 7 films from 2022- the year that was. Always happens, as I gear up for awards season. Enjoy! (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to get … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged #MeToo, 50 First Dates, abuse, action, Adam Driver, Adam McKay, Adam Sandler, airmen, Alice Braga, aliens, Anya Taylor-Joy, Arthur Godfrey, arts, Austin Butler, Barbra Stanwyck, Baz Luhrmann, biography, Bloodsport, Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Christian Bale, cinema, Colonel Tom Parker, comedies, comedy, comic books, corruption, crime, criticism, Dave Bautista, DC Comics, death, Dick Martin, disasters, Dom DeLuise, Don Cheadle, Doris Day, drama, Drew Barrymore, Ed Harris, elitism, Elvis, Elvis Presley, entertainment, escape, espionage, fame, family, fantasy, farce, fear, fighter pilots, film noir, films, Flix Pix, Frank Morgan, Frankie Avalon, genius, Greta Gerwig, Groot, Harley Quinn, haute cuisine, horror, hubris, Humphrey Bogart, ideas, Idris Elba, James Stewart, Janet McTeer, Jennifer Connelly, John Cena, John Leguizamo, John McGiver, Jon Hamm, Jordan Peele, Kevin Keelan, King Shark, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, love, machismo, Margot Robbie, Marvel Studios, memory, Miles Teller, militarism, military, movies, murder, music, musicians, mysteries, Natalie Portman, Nazi Germany, Netflix, Nicholas Hoult, Noah Baumbach, Nope, nuclear disaster, opinion, Panic in the Year Zero, Paul Lynde, Peacemaker, Pete Davidson, Peter Capaldi, power, privilege, Ralph Fiennes, Ray Milland, relationships, reviews, Rob Schneider, Robert Stack, Robert Young, Rod Taylor, romance, Russell Crowe, San Fernando Valley, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Astin, sequels, sexual harassment, snobbery, success, superheroes, surrealism, survival, Sylvester Stallone, Taika Waititi Korg, Tár, Tessa Thompson, The Glass Bottom Boat, The Menu, The Mortal Storm, The Suicide Squad, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Thor: Love and Thunder, thrillers, Todd Field, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Top Gun Maverick, tragedy, Val Kilmer, Vin Diesel, Viola Davis, violence, wealth, White Noise, Will Farrell, World War II, Zeus | Leave a comment

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