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QuickPix (40): “Great DOCUMENTARIES For You to Savor, Vol. 9”
> 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 →
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Tagged adventure, art, Canadian cinema, cinema, conflict, control, criticism, entertainment, Everest, exploration, family secrets, films, George Mallory, ideas, Israel, Israeli cinema, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Liam Neeson, middle east, mountain climbing, movies, National Geographic, nature, opinion, Palestine, power, QuickPix, reviews, Sarah Polley, security, Stories We Tell, surveillance, The House I Live In, The Law in These Parts, The Wildest Dream
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QuickPix (36): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 12”
> 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 →
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Tagged adventure, Alfre Woodard, art, Asghar Farhadi, Burt Lancaster, Captain Horatio Hornblower, cinema, courtroom drama, criticism, Down in the Delta, drama, E. M. Forster, entertainment, families, family secrets, films, Gregory Peck, Herbie Hancock, heroes, ideas, Iranian cinema, Javiar Bardem, John Frankenheimer, Kevin Keelan, kidnapping, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Maya Angelou, Mississippi, movies, opinion, Penelope Cruz, psychological thrillers, QuickPix, racism, reviews, seafaring, Shelly Winters, Spain, Telly Savalas
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FLIX PIX (1053): “One Family, and Their LITTLE WHITE LIE”
LITTLE WHITE LIE (directed by Lacey Schwartz, 2014) **** (out of 5) . > This is an intimate but potent little documentary about the nature of identity, belonging and family. . Lovely young documentarian Lacey Schwartz was raised in a Jewish … Continue reading →
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KPK on the CINEMA (100): The Films of JUNE 2020
. 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 →
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