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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. 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FLIX PIX (514): “Hollywood Directors Go to War: FIVE CAME BACK”

Posted on May 3, 2022 by KPKeelan

FIVE CAME BACK (directed by John Farrow, 2017) ****+ (out of 5) . > Netflix produced these three hourlong episodes of big, gripping documentary storytelling, recounting the way five big Hollywood directors contributed to World War II, when they enlisted to … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, cinema, criticism, documentaries, films, Five Came Back, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Capra, George Stevens, Guillermo Del Toro, ideas, John Farrow, John Ford, John Huston, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lawrence Kasdan, movies, Netflix, opinion, Paul Greengrass, reviews, Steven Spielberg, William Wyler, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (65): The Films of JULY 2017

Posted on June 19, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Lots of very fine films to take a quick look at this month- a slew of four-and-a-half star flicks. That’s some bounty! Good times continue for the film industry, as the tools of the art become cheaper and more … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 20th Century Women, A Monster Calls, Aferim!, aging, Alan Bennett, Alex Lehmann, aliens, animation, Annette Bening, art, autobiography, Benicio Del Toro, Billy Crudup, biography, Blue Jay, Brian Keith, Captain Chesley Sullenberger, Che, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christopher Nolan, Cillian Murphy, cinema, Clint Eastwood, comedy, criticism, Devil's Bride, documentaries, drama, dramedy, Dreamworks, Dunkirk, Duplass brothers, Dutch cinema, dystopia, Elle, Elle Fanning, Elton John, England, epics, Ernesto Guevara, erotica, families, fantasy, Felicity Jones, feminism, films, Five Came Back, France, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Capra, Gabriel García Bernal, George Stevens, German cinema, Greta Gerwig, growing up, Guillermo Del Toro, gypsies, Hailee Steinfeld, Haley Mills, Harry Styles, historical drama, history, Hugh Jackman, humor, Ian Paisley, Irish cinema, Isabelle Huppert, Jane Fonda, John Ford, John Huston, Julia, Kelly Fremon Craig, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Keelan, Kevin Kline, Kid Charlemagne, Korean cinema, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Laura Linney, Laura Prepon, Lawrence Kasdan, Lewis MacDougall, Liam Neeson, Liev Schreiber, Lillian Hellman, Logan, love, LSD, Luis Gnecco, Maggie Smith, Mark Duplass, Mark Rylance, Martin McGuinness, Maureen O’Hara, Michaël Dudok de Wit, Mike Mills, Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children, movies, nature, Nazis, Neruda, Netflix, Nicholas Sand, Operation Dynamo, orange sunshine, Owsley Stanley, Pablo Neruda, Park Chan-wook, Patrick Stewart, Paul Greengrass, Paul Verhoeven, Peter Simonischek, poetry, poets, politics, psychedelics, Radu Jude, reviews, Roma, romance, Romania, Romanian cinema, Sam Elliot, Sandra Hüller, Sarah Paulson, Scandinavia, She's Beautiful When She's Angry, Sigourney Weaver, Steely Dan, Steven Soderbergh, Steven Spielberg, Sully, The Edge of Seventeen, The Fifth Wave, The Handmaiden, The Hero, The Journey, The Lady in the Van, The Parent Trap, The Red Turtle, The Road to El Dorado, The Sunshine Makers, thrillers, Tim Burton, Tim Rice, Tim Scully, Timothy Spall, Tom Hanks, Tom Hardy, Toni Erdmann, Tuulia Eloranta, Vanessa Redgrave, violence, warfare, William Wyler, witch hunts, Wolverine, women’s lib, Woody Harrelson, World War II, X-Men | Leave a comment

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

FLIX PIX (514): “Hollywood Directors Go to War: FIVE CAME BACK”

KPK on the CINEMA (65): The Films of JULY 2017

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