Tag Archives: Hollywood

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

FLIX PIX (1251): “The Early Days of Hollywood Were Like Ancient BABYLON”

Posted on May 2, 2024 by KPKeelan

BABYLON (directed by Damien Chazelle, 2022) **** (out of 5) . > I am ambivalent at best, on director Damien Chazelle. . I was impressed by FIRST MAN and extremely gripped by WHIPLASH. I never saw his musical debut GUY AND … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, Babylon, Brad Pitt, Chloe Fineman, cinema, comedy, criticism, Damien Chazelle, debauchery, Diego Calva, drama, entertainment, Eric Roberts, excess, films, Flea, Flix Pix, Hollywood, ideas, Irving Thalberg, James Wong Howe, Jean Smart, Katherine Waterson, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lukas Haas, Margot Robbie, Marion Davies, Max Minghella, moviemaking, movies, opinion, reviews, silent films, Spike Jonze, talkies, Tobey McGuire, tragedy, William Randolph Hearst | 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

FLIX PIX (1106): “Gorge Yourself on This Delicious LICORICE PIZZA”

Posted on August 16, 2023 by KPKeelan

LICORICE PIZZA (directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, 2021) **** (out of 5) . > Could the terrain of this long-awaited film be more familiar? I don’t think so! . Director Paul Thomas Anderson and I grew up in the same turf … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Alana Haim, arts, Benny Safdie, Bradley Cooper, Christine Ebersole, cinema, comedy, coming of age, Cooper Hoffman, criticism, Danielle Haim, entertainment, Este Haim, films, Flix Pix, Fred Gwynne, Gary Goetzman, George DiCaprio, Grant High School, Haim, Harriet Sansom Harris, Herman Munster, Hollywood, ideas, Joel Wachs, John C. Reilly, John Michael Higgins, Jon Peters, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Licorice Pizza, Lucille Ball, Maya Rudolph, movies, opinion, Paul Thomas Anderson, reviews, romance, San Fernando Valley, Sean Penn, Tail o’ the Cock, William Holden, Yours Mine and Ours | Leave a comment

KPK on the Cinema: (137): “The Films of July 2023”

Posted on August 8, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > July was kind of an in-between month. Not much of interest in the marketplace, aside from the formidable marketing juggernaut of BARBENHEIMER. It was however, a month that sent me out to the movies twice- something that hasn’t … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Adrien Brody, Alexander Payne, aliens, ambition, Americana, Amy Wright, Annie Get Your Gun, Annie Oakley, Anything You Can Do, arts, Asteroid City, Aunt Mary Claire, Aunt Selma, Barry Levinson, Betty Hutton, biography, Bob Balaban, Brad Dourif, Bryan Cranston, Buffalo Bill Cody, Busby Berkeley, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, cinema, comedy, con men, crime, criminals, criticism, Dave Bautista, David Morse, disability, Doin' What Comes Natur'lly, drama, dysfunction, Edward Norton, Election, Elke Sommer, Emily Blunt, entertainment, films, Flannery O'Connor, Florence Pugh, fraud, friendship, Gary Oldman, George Sidney, government, grifters, growth, Harold Russell, Harry Dean Stanton, healing, high school, history, Hollywood, Hope Davis, Hotel Artemis, Howard Keel, hubris, I'm an Indian Too, ideas, Inside Moves, Irving Berlin, Jason Schwartzman, Jeff Goldblum, Jeffery Wright, Jenny Slate, Jill St. John, Jodie Foster, John Huston, John Savage, Josh Hartnett, Keenan Wynn, Kevin Keelan, kitsch, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Live Schreiber, Louis Calhern, Margot Robbie, Matt Damon, Matt Dillon, Matthew Broderick, movies, musicals, nuclear weapons, opinion, Oppenheimer, politics, preachers, Project Trinity, Reese Witherspoon, relationships, religion, reviews, Richard Donner, Rita Wilson, Robert Downey Jr., romance, satire, Scarlett Johansson, science, scientists, Sitting Bull, spirituality, Stephen Boyd, Sterling K. Brown, Steve Carell, success, surrealism, the arms race, the atomic age, The Girl That I Marry, The Oscar, There's No Business Like Show Business, They Say It's Wonderful, thrillers, Tilda Swinton, Tom Hanks, Tony Bennett, Wes Anderson, Willem Dafoe, Wise Blood, World War II, You Can't Get a Man with a Gun, Zachary Quinto | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (133): “The Films of March 2023”

Posted on April 8, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > Time marches on, relentlessly, doesn’t it? 2023?! What happened to 2003? Well, here they are: the films of March 2023. Don’t blink, or another decade will pass you by… (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged action, activism, addiction, Adrien Brody, Africa, All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Ana de Arman, Andrew Dominik, Angélique Kidjo, animation, Ann-Margret, Anthony Perkins, Art Garfunkle, Arthur Miller, artists, attitudes, Babylon, basketball, big pharma, Billy Wilder, biography, Blonde, Bobby Cannavale, Brad Pitt, Brian Cox, British cinema, Candice Bergen, Carnal Knowledge, Carol Kane, Chloe Fineman, Chris Evans, Chris Lemmon, comedies, comedy, coming of age, corporate greed, corruption, couples, Dale Soules, Damien Chazelle, Darryl F. Zanuck, debauchery, Diego Calva, disillusionment, drama, drugs, Edward G. Robinson, Eric Roberts, ethics, excess, exploitation, fantasy, fictional biography, Flea, gender roles, gender stereotypes, HBO, historical epics, historical fiction, Hollywood, Howard Lindsay, Ian Holm, Irving Thalberg, Jack Lemmon, Jack Nicolson, James Brolin, James Goldman, James Wong Howe, Jane Fonda, Janet Suzman, Jean Smart, Joe DiMaggio, John Boyega, John F. Kennedy, John McEnery, Joseph Cotton, Joshua Logan, Joyce Carol Oats, Jules Feiffer, Julianne Nicholson, justice, Katherine Waterson, Keke Palmer, Laurence Oliver, Lightyear, Lukas Haas, male sexuality, Margot Robbie, Marilyn Monroe, Marion Davies, Max Minghella, Michael Jayston, Michael Redgrave, moviemaking, museums, Nan Goldin, Nicholas and Alexandra, opiates, origin stories, Oxycontin, philanthropy, photography, Pixel, politics, profit, protest, Rasputin, Ray Walston, resistance, revolution, Rita Moreno, Robert Redford, romance, Russel Crouse, Russian history, Sackler family, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, sequels, sex, silent films, slave trade, Spike Jonze, Stalin, Taika Waititi, talkies, Tall Story, the Kingdom of Dahomey, The Woman King, Tobey McGuire, Tom Laughlin, Toy Story, tragedy, Trotsky, Tsar Nicholas II, Viola Davis, violence, William Randolph Hearst | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (972): “Gary Oldman is MANK”

Posted on December 18, 2022 by KPKeelan

MANK (directed by David Fincher, 2020) ****+ (out of 5) . > Accomplished director David Fincher created this stellar Netflix film from a script by his late father, Jack. . It tells the story of the struggle for screenwriting credit Herman … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Amanda Seyfried, arts, biography, cinema, Citizen Kane, criticism, David Fincher, David O. Selznick, entertainment, film, Gary Oldman, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Hollywood, ideas, Irving Thalberg, Jack Fincher, John Houseman, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Mank, Marion Davies, movies, Netflix, opinion, Orson Welles, power, reviews, San Simeon, screenwriting, Trent Reznor, wealth, William Randolph Hearst, writers | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (812): “Tarantino Spins His Wheels with Indulgent Fantasy: ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD”

Posted on September 29, 2022 by KPKeelan

ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD (directed by Quentin Tarantino, 2019) *** (out of 5) . > With great anticipation, I went out to see the new Tarantino film, ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD. The trailers looked so good. . … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Al Pacino, art, Brad Pitt, Bruce Dern, Bruce Lee, Charles Manson, cinema, criticism, Dakota Fanning, Emile Hirsch, fantasy, films, Hollywood, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kurt Russell, Leonardo DiCaprio, Los Angeles, Luke Perry, Manson murders, Margot Robbie, movies, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, opinion, Quentin Tarantino, reviews, Sharon Tate, Spawn Ranch, the Family | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (808): “THE BIG KNIFE Eviscerates the Hollywood Star-Making Machine”

Posted on September 27, 2022 by KPKeelan

THE BIG KNIFE (directed by Robert Aldrich, 1955) *** (out of 5) . > This overheated melodrama about the soul-killing star-making machinery of Hollywood must have been considered pretty tough and cynical in the mid-50’s. . It seems cloyingly naive and … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, cinema, Clifford Odets, criticism, fame, films, Hollywood, ideas, Jack Palance, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, reviews, Robert Aldrich, satire, stardom, The Big Knife | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (728): “Orson Welles Aborted THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND Should Have Stayed That Way”

Posted on August 18, 2022 by KPKeelan

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND (directed by Orson Welles, 2018) ** (out of 5) . > Orson Welles had a great many irons in the fire at any given time. Many of his projects never saw the light of day … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, cinema, Claude Chabrol, criticism, Dennis Hopper, films, Henry Jaglom, Hollywood, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, moviemaking, movies, opinion, Orson Welles, Paul Mazursky, reviews, satire, The Other Side of the Wind | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Hollywood

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

FLIX PIX (1251): “The Early Days of Hollywood Were Like Ancient BABYLON”

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

FLIX PIX (1106): “Gorge Yourself on This Delicious LICORICE PIZZA”

KPK on the Cinema: (137): “The Films of July 2023”

KPK on the CINEMA (133): “The Films of March 2023”

FLIX PIX (972): “Gary Oldman is MANK”

FLIX PIX (812): “Tarantino Spins His Wheels with Indulgent Fantasy: ONCE UPON A TIME… IN HOLLYWOOD”

FLIX PIX (808): “THE BIG KNIFE Eviscerates the Hollywood Star-Making Machine”

FLIX PIX (728): “Orson Welles Aborted THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND Should Have Stayed That Way”

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