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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. B. Smoove, J.J. Abrams, Jack Warden, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Gray, James Le Gros, Jamie Foxx, Japanese cinema, Jaylin Webb, Jeff Goldblum, Jeffery Katzenberg, Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Jeremy Strong, Jerrod Carmichael, Jewish Americans, Jodie Foster, John Batiste, John Boyega, John Ford, John Ford: The Man Who Invented America, John Hillerman, John Lewis, John Magaro, John Negulescu, John Steinbeck, John Williams, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Judd Hirsch, Julia Roberts, Julianne Moore, Kelly Reichardt, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Keelan, Kiefer Sutherland, Kiernan Shipka, kinship, Korean culture, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kristen Bell, Lance Crouther, Laurie Metcalf, Lawrence Kasdan, László Kovács, leadership, Leave the World Behind, Leonard Bernstein, Leonardo DiCaprio, Leslie Nielsen, Liam Neeson, liberation, Liev Schreiber, life, loneliness, Louis C.K., love, Lucy Liu, Madeline Kahn, Maestro, Mahalia Jackson, Mahershala Ali, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Hamill, Mark Ruffalo, marriage, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Scorsese, Mary Kay Letourneau, May December, Medgar Evers, Michele Obama, Michelle Monaghan, Michelle Williams, Miranda Richardson, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, movies, Mstyslav Chernov, murder, music, musicians, Myrna Loy, mysteries, mystery, Natalie Portman, native Americans, Netflix, Nyad, O. Henry’s Full House, O.J. Simpson, ocean, Oliver Platt, opinion, Oprah Winfrey, Oscar Levant, Paper Moon, parables, parody, Past Lives, Pat Hingle, Paul Giamatti, Paul Sorvino, people, personalities, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Coyote, Peter Sellers, political satire, Pom Klementieff, Poor Things, Pootie Tang, Priscilla Presley, protest, psychological thriller, publishing, race, racism, Ralph Fiennes, Ramy Youssef, Randy Quaid, Rebecca Ferguson, relationships, reviews, Rhys Ifans, Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Widmark, Rob Reiner, Robert Goulet, Robert Pattinson, Robert Shaw, Robert Vaughn, Robert Zemeckis, Rod Serling, romance, Russia, Rustin, Ryan O'Neal, Sally Field, Sam Fell, Sarah Silverman, satire, scams, sci-fi, science fiction, screwball comedies, Sean Astin, self-actualization, sequels, sex, sex abuse, sexuality, Showing Up, Simon Pegg, slice of life, Source Code, Spielberg, spoofs, sports, steampunk, stereotypes, Sterling Hayden, Steve Lawrence, Steven Spielberg biography, Strange World, Studio Ghibli, Suleika Jaouad, supernatural, surrealism, survival, Tatum O'Neal, Teo Yoo, terrorism, Teyonah Parris, Thandiwe Newton, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, The Boy and the Heron, the great depression, The Holdovers, The Monkey House, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, They Cloned Tyrone, thriller, thrillers, Todd Haynes, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Tom Stoppard, Tony Kushner, Ukraine, Vanessa Kirby, Vilmos Zsigmond, Ving Rhames, violence, W. 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 (995): “LOVE IS (Not So) STRANGE, Really”

Posted on December 29, 2022 by KPKeelan

LOVE IS STRANGE (directed by Ira Sachs, 2014) ***+ (out of 5) . > Ah, such sweetness! Of all the gay-themed films I’ve ever seen, this is one of the most gentle and tenderhearted. . Partners of 39 years, painter John … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Alfred Molina, art, arts, cinema, comedies, criticism, entertainment, films, gay marriage, homosexuality, ideas, Ira Sachs, John Lithgow, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, love, Love is Strange, Marisa Tomei, movies, opinion, relationships, reviews | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (944): “John Huston’s REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE”

Posted on December 4, 2022 by KPKeelan

REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE (directed by John Huston, 1967) **** (out of 5) . > John Huston helmed this Carson McCruther’s southern drama of infidelity and suppressed desires. . The major’s wife is having an affair right under his nose, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Brian Keith, Carson McCullers, cinema, criticism, drama, Elizabeth Taylor, films, homosexuality, ideas, John Huston, Julie Harris, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, Reflections in a Golden Eye, relationships, repression, reviews | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (590): “MAKING THE BOYS (in the Band)”

Posted on June 10, 2022 by KPKeelan

MAKING THE BOYS (directed by Crayton Robey, 2009) ***+ (out of 5) . > This illuminating documentary about the making of Mart Crowley’s groundbreaking gay themed play and subsequent movie was very enlightening indeed. . I lived through this era, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged AIDS, art, cinema, controversy, Crayton Robey, criticism, documentaries, films, homosexuality, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Making the Boys, Mart Crawley, movies, opinion, plays, reviews, The Boys in the Band, theatre | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (375): “If You Watch BEYOND THERAPY, You Just May Need Therapy to Get Over the Trauma”

Posted on February 22, 2022 by KPKeelan

BEYOND THERAPY (directed by Robert Altman, 1986) *+ (out of 5) . > This steaming turd has got to be the absolute worst film I have seen since I began writing reviews in January of 2012. . I am usually very, … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Beyond Therapy, Christopher Durang, Christopher Guest, cinema, comedy, criticism, films, Glenda Jackson, homophobia, homosexuality, ideas, Jeff Goldblum, Julie Haggerty, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, politically correct, reviews, Robert Altman, Tom Conti | 1 Comment

FLIX PIX (344): “Nasty Stereotypes, Susanna York’s Nipple and THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE”

Posted on February 7, 2022 by KPKeelan

THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE (directed by Robert Aldrich, 1968) **+ (out of 5) . > Very curious, that in the Netflix description of this breakthrough film, they totally omit the very pertinent fact that this is a gay-themed film about … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Beryl Reid, cinema, drama, film criticism, films, homosexuality, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, lesbians, movies, opinion, reviews, Robert Aldrich, Susannah York, The Killing of Sister George | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (78): The Films of August 2018

Posted on July 2, 2021 by KPKeelan

. A busy cinema month for me. Looks like the dark stories in TALE OF TALES impressed me the most. I love that twisted storybook stuff… (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Agnès Varda, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfred Hitchcock, All The Money in the World, Amadeus, animals, Antonio Salieri, Armie Hammer, art, artists, Ben Bradley, biography, Bob Odenkirk, Bradley Whitford, Call Me By Your Name, Chantal Goya, Chilean cinema, chimps, Christopher Plummer, cinema, cold war, comedy, crime, criticism, cult films, Cynthia Nixon, Daniel Day-Lewis, Daniel Ellsberg, David Cross, designers, Director’s Cut, documentaries, Dominique Pinon, drama, Elizabeth Berridge, Elizabeth Olsen, Encke King, Endless Poetry, F. Murray Abraham, fairytales, family films, fantasy, fashion, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, François Truffaut, French cinema, friendship, Giambattista Basile, gore, graphic novels, Harry Palmer, Helena Bonham Carter, history, Hitchcock Truffaut, Hollywood, homosexuality, horror, humans, humor, I Tonya, ideas, Italian cinema, J. Paul Getty, Jacques Cluzaud, Jacques Perrin, James Ivory, Jane, Jane Goodall, Jean Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Jeffrey Jones, Jeremy Renner, João Pedro Rodrigues, John Barry, John C. Reilly, John Steuart Curry, JR, Judy Davis, Justin Long, Kenneth McMillan, Kenny Baker, Kevin Keelan, Kevin Smith, Kevin Spacey, kidnapping, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Los Angeles Plays Itself, love, Marc Caro, Mark Wahlberg, Masculin Féminin, Matteo Garrone, melodrama, Meryl Streep, Michael Caine, Michael Perkins, Michelle Williams, Miloš Forman, mime, moviemaking, movies, murder, Nancy Kerrigan, Nat Turner, Nate Parker, National Geographic, nature, new wave, opera, Paul Hamy, Paul Thomas Anderson, period pieces, Peter Shaffer, Phantom Thread, photography, politics, pop culture, Portuguese cinema, privilege, puppetry, reviews, Ridley Scott, romance, Salma Hayek, Sarah Paulson, satire, Simon Callow, slavery, spies, Steven Spielberg, stories, style, surrealism, suspense, Tale of Tales, the 1960’s, The Birth of a Nation, The Circus, The Ipcress File, The Ornithologist, the Pentagon Papers, The Post, the sexes, the Washington Post, The Young and Prodigious T. S. Spivet, Thom Andersen, thrillers, Timothée Chalamet, Timothy Hutton, Toby Jones, Tom Hanks, Tom Hulce, Tonya Harding, Tracy Letts, Tusk, Vincent Cassel, Vincent Schiaveli, wealth, wildlife, Wind River, Winged Migration, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Leave a comment

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

FLIX PIX (995): “LOVE IS (Not So) STRANGE, Really”

FLIX PIX (944): “John Huston’s REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE”

FLIX PIX (590): “MAKING THE BOYS (in the Band)”

FLIX PIX (375): “If You Watch BEYOND THERAPY, You Just May Need Therapy to Get Over the Trauma”

FLIX PIX (344): “Nasty Stereotypes, Susanna York’s Nipple and THE KILLING OF SISTER GEORGE”

KPK on the CINEMA (78): The Films of August 2018

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