Tag Archives: Kirk Douglas

FLIX PIX (1286): “I Am SPARTACUS!”

Posted on June 7, 2024 by KPKeelan

SPARTICUS (directed by Stanley Kubrick, 1960) ***** (out of 5) . > This is one of those films I would have told you that I had seen several times through the years, on various old cathode ray tubes. I would have … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged ancient Rome, arts, Charles Laughton, cinema, classics, criticism, Dalton Trumbo, drama, entertainment, epics, films, Flix Pix, gladiators, history, ideas, Jean Simmons, John Dall, John Gavin, Julius Caesar, justice, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Laurence Olivier, movies, opinion, Peter Ustinov, reviews, romance, slavery, Spartacus, Stanley Kubrick, Tony Curtis, Woody Strode | Leave a comment

QuickPix (38): “Great WESTERNS For You to Savor, Vol. 2”

Posted on January 23, 2024 by KPKeelan

> 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 →

Posted in QuickPix | Tagged art, Ben Johnson, Burt Lancaster, change, cinema, classics, Claudia Cardinale, corruption, criticism, entertainment, films, fugitives, Gary Cooper, ideas, Jack Palance, James Arness, John Ford, justice, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lee Marvin, Lonely Are the Brave, Man With the Gun, movies, opinion, QuickPix, reviews, Richard Brooks, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Springfield Rifle, the Civil War, The Professionals, violence, Wagon Master, Walter Matthew, westerns, Woody Strode | Leave a comment

QuickPix (5): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 2”

Posted on January 4, 2024 by KPKeelan

Posted in QuickPix | Tagged adventure, art, Belgian cinema, change, cinema, classics, cowboys, criticism, disability, drama, entertainment, ethnicity, explorers, extremism, family, films, Fred Zinnemann, grief, grieving, ideas, illness, Israel, Israeli cinema, Johan Heldenbergh, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, life, Lonely Are the Brave, love, Marlon Brando, mideast conflict, movies, opinion, PTSD, QuickPix, reviews, romance, shell shocked, terrorism, The Attack, The Broken Circle Breakdown, The Lost City of Z, The Men, thrillers, trauma, violence, Walter Matthau, World War II | 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 (862): “Billy Wilder’s Tragically Prescient ACE IN THE HOLE”

Posted on October 24, 2022 by KPKeelan

ACE IN THE HOLE (directed by Billy Wilder, 1951) ***** (out of 5) . > I have been looking for Billy Wilder’s very dark, cynical take on the depravity of the media since I projected it to a film class at … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Ace in the Hole, arts, Billy Wilder, cinema, classics, corruption, criticism, cynicism, drama, exploitation, films, ideas, journalism, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, newspapers, opinion, reporters, reviews, The Big Carnival, the press | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (125): “The Films of July 2022”

Posted on September 4, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > JULY 2022: Not many films to investigate his month. I was too busy creating 183 wonderful (mostly) new stories to unleash on an unsuspecting world in 2023! My Muse is working overtime. There are only 5 films, they … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged aboriginals, action, adventure, Aisling Franciosi, Arthur Hunnicutt, arts, assault, Auschwitz, Australia, Australian films, Baykali Ganambarr, beliefs, Ben Foster, Bill Maher, Bill Murray, Blackfoot Indians, Bob Balaban, boxing, Bruce Willis, children, Christianity, classics, comedy, coming of age, Dewy Martin, documentary, drama, Edward Norton, entertainment, film criticism, films, Frances McDormand, genius, growing up, guilt, Harvey Keitel, Howard Hawks, humor, hypocrisy, ideas, injustice, Islam, Jared Gilman, Jason Schwartzman, Jennifer Kent, Judaism, Kara Hayward, Kevin Keelan, kids, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Larry Charles, love, Lucas Hedges, memory, Moonrise Kingdom, movies, Nazis, opinion, PTSD, puppy love, racism, relationships, religion, Religulous, revenge, reviews, Roman Coppola, romance, runaways, Sam Claflin, satire, social criticism, stories, survival, suspense, The Big Sky, The holocaust, The Nightingale, the sixties, The Survivor, thrillers, Tilda Swinton, traders, tragedy, trauma, violence, war crimes, Wes Anderson, westerns, wit, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (124): “The Films of June 2022”

Posted on September 1, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > JUNE 2022. Only 4 reviews this month? Yup. Busy watching intense TV series like BARRY and (appropriately enough!) THE HANDMAID’S TALE. But I did find one near-classic noir from the golden age of the genre. Great noir is … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged action, Alastair Sim, Alfred Hitchcock, Andy Serkis, arts, Bruce Wayne, cinema, Colin Farrell, comedy, crime, criticism, drama, enemies, entertainment, ethics, fantasy, films, George Seaton, Gotham City, ideas, Jane Wyman, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, Korean War, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, L. Frank Baum, legends, Marlene Dietrich, Matt Reeves, morality, movies, murder, mysteries, Nick Adams, Oliver Hardy, opinion, Paul Dano, Peter Sarsgaard, reviews, Robert Pattinson, Robert Walker, silent films, Stage Fright, superheroes, supernatural, suspense, The Batman, The Hook, the Riddler, The Wizard of Oz, thrillers, violence, Zoë Kravitz | Leave a comment

KPK on the Cinema (121): The Films of MARCH 2022

Posted on April 19, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > MARCH 2022! TIME MARCHES ON! (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to get 5 stars.) (All titles in PURPLE have been expanded for Flix Pix columns.) > This month I … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Big Hand For the Little Lady, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, addiction, AFI, Al Pacino, Alan Hale, Alana Haim, American Film Institute, animation, Ansel Elgort, Aretha Franklin, Ariana DeBose, Arthur O'Connell, arts, Audra McDonald, Aunjanue Ellis, backstage musicals, Benny Safdie, Bhutanese cinema, biography, Bradley Cooper, British cinema, Burgess Meredith, Buster Keaton, Catherine Deneuve, Charles Bickford, Charlotte Rampling, child abuse, Christine Ebersole, cinema, cliches, Clint Eastwood, comedies, comedy, coming of age, Cooper Hoffman, crime, criticism, Cry Macho, Danielle Haim, Dave Bautista, David Alvarez, Denis Villeneuve, Disney, drama, drifters, Dune, Dwight Yokam, Eileen Brennan, Elizabeth Hartman, entertainment, epics, escapes, Este Haim, families, fantasy, films, Forest Whitaker, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Herbert, Fred Gwynne, friendship, gambling, gangs, Gary Goetzman, Gene Hackman, gentrification, George DiCaprio, Geraldine Page, gospel, Grant High School, Haim, Harriet Sansom Harris, Henry Fonda, Herman Munster, Hollywood, Hume Cronyn, ideas, insanity, irony, Italy, Jack Gilford, Jason Momoa, Jason Robards, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Hudson, Jerry Schatzberg, Joanne Woodward, Joel Wachs, John B. Sebastian, John C. Reilly, John Michael Higgins, John Randolph, Jon Peters, Josh Brolin, Karen Black, Kevin Keelan, Kevin McCarthy, King Richard, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Leonard Bernstein, Licorice Pizza, Luca, Lucille Ball, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, madness, Marlon Wayans, Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Rudolph, melodrama, mental illness, mentoring, Mexico, Michael Hordern, movies, musical, musicals, musicians, New York City, opinion, Oscar Isaac, parenting, Paul Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peter Kastner, Phil Silvers, Pixar, prisoners, psychological drama, Rachel Zegler, relationships, remakes, Repulsion, respect, reviews, Richard Williams, Rip Torn, road trips, Roman Polanski, romance, Romeo and Juliet, rural life, San Fernando Valley, Scarecrow, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Penn, Serena Williams, sex, sex comedy, singers, slapstick, soul music, sports films, stardom, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen Sondheim, Steven Spielberg, success, supernatural, Tail o’ the Cock, teachers, teaching, tennis, The Broadway Melody, There Was a Crooked Man, Timothée Chalamet, tragedy, Venus Williams, violence, Warren Oates, West Side Story, westerns, Will Smith, William Holden, You’re a Big Boy Now, Yours Mine and Ours, Zendaya, Zero Mostel | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (117): The Films of November 2021

Posted on January 27, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > Love and war, heartless big business, off-kilter spiritual claptrap, a visit to the French countryside, ethics and morality, obsession, crime and racism… Life has a lot going on! (All films are rated on a 5 star basis and … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged absurdism, accidents, adaptations, aging, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alexander Mackendrick, Amazon, Andrzej Wajda, Antonio Banderas, artists, arts, Ashes and Diamonds, assassins, Benedict Cumberbatch, biography, Burgess Meredith, Burt Lancaster, business, Canadian cinema, choices, cinema, Cinema Verite, classics, Coda, comedy, competitiveness, corruption, couples, Cousin Jules, crime, criticism, cyberbullies, David D'Amato, David Farrier, death, Denis Villeneuve, documentaries, Dominique Benicheti, drama, Ed Begley, England, English cinema, entertainment, exploitation, fantasy, Felice Guiteaux, fetishes, film, film noir, filmmaking, forgiveness, fraud, French cinema, George Bernard Shaw, George C. Scott, Glenn Corbett, guilt, Gun Crazy, Guy Hamilton, harassment, humor, ideas, illness, inventors, investigative journalism, irony, James Shigeta, John Dall, Jules Guiteaux, Julie Christie, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, life, Los Angeles, love, Maelström, manslaughter, Marie-Josée Croze, metaphor, Mexican cinema, morals, movies, murder, mysticism, nature, New Zealand cinema, obsession, opinion, Pain and Glory, pathos, patterns, Pedro Almodovar, Peggy Cummins, Penelope Cruz, period pieces, perversion, Petulia, plays, Polish cinema, quests, race, redemption, reviews, Richard Chamberlain, Richard Lester, Rod Serling, romance, Russ Tamblyn, sacrifice, Samuel Beckett, social satire, soldiers, Spanish cinema, spirituality, surrealism, symbolism, The Crimson Kimono, The Devil’s Disciple, The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, The Holy Mountain, the seasons, Tickled, time, tradition, tragedy, TV dramas, values, Van Heflin, violence, Waiting for Godot, Walter Burke, work, World War II, Zero Mostel | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (116): The Films of October 2021

Posted on December 3, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > This month we get a serving of silent German expressionism from Fritz Lang, an effervescent modern musical from Lin-Manuel Miranda, a handsome American period piece from George Clooney, an early schlock film from Francis Coppola, one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged action, Adam Driver, American history, Anthony Ramos, Arthur Kennedy, arts, B-movies, Barry Fitzgerald, betrayal, biography, Black Girl, boxing films, British cinema, brothers, Bruce Dern, Bruno Ganz, Burt Lancaster, cargo cults, Champion, change, cinema, Colin Firth, colonialism, comedy, commitment, Communism, corruption, crime, criminal masterminds, criticism, dancing, David McCallum, David Strathairn, Dean Stockwell, death, dementia, Dementia 13, demonization, Dennis Hopper, detectives, drama, dreams, economics, Edward R. Murrow, emigration, England, English cinema, entertainment, ethnicity, experimental films, exploitation, fighters, film noir, filmmaking, films, France, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Langella, Freud, Fritz Lang, gay couples, genius, George Clooney, German cinema, Good Night and Good Luck, growth, Henry Jaglom, hopes, horror, horses, House Un-American Activities Committee, Howard Duff, HUAC, hypnosis, hysteria, I Walk Alone, ideas, illness, immigrants, imperialism, In the Heights, incarceration, inmates, insanity, Ireland, Jeff Daniels, Jimmy Smits, John Huston, Jonathan Pryce, Joseph McCarthy, journalism, justice, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, labor, life, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Lizabeth Scott, love, madness, Marc Anthony, Matthias Schoenaerts, medicine, memory loss, mental illness, metafiction, Michelle Phillips, Miguel de Cervantes, Montgomery Clift, movies, murder, musicals, mystery, neighborhoods, New York, opinion, Patricia Clarkson, Patrick Magee, people, Peru, Peter Fonda, police procedural, politics, prisoners, psychological drama, racism, Ray Wise, reform, rehabilitation, relationships, revenge, reviews, Robert Downey Jr., romance, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Russ Tamblyn, Samuel Fuller, Sancho Panza, Senegal, Senegalese cinema, Sigmund Freud, silent films, singing, slasher films, Spain, spies, Stanley Tucci, Stellan Skarsgård, Supernova, Susannah York, television, Terry Gilliam, the American dream, The American Friend, The Last Movie, The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, The Mustang, The Naked City, The Secret Passion, therapy, thrillers, Toni Basil, tragedy, villains, violence, Washington Heights, Wim Wenders | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Kirk Douglas

FLIX PIX (1286): “I Am SPARTACUS!”

QuickPix (38): “Great WESTERNS For You to Savor, Vol. 2”

QuickPix (5): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 2”

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

FLIX PIX (862): “Billy Wilder’s Tragically Prescient ACE IN THE HOLE”

KPK on the CINEMA (124): “The Films of June 2022”

KPK on the Cinema (121): The Films of MARCH 2022

KPK on the CINEMA (116): The Films of October 2021

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