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FLIX PIX (1134): “THE BLACK STALLION is a Family Adventure For Boys, and Anyone Who Loves Horses”

Posted on October 15, 2023 by KPKeelan

THE BLACK STALLION (directed by Carroll Ballard, 1979) ***+ (out of 5) * > I remembered this family pic from the late 90’s as a family classic. Not so much. Perhaps I was confusing it with MAN FROM SNOWY RIVER. . … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged adventure, arts, Carroll Ballard, cinema, coming of age, criticism, drama, family films, horses, Hoyt Axton, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Mickey Rooney, movies, opinion, racing, reviews, Terri Garr, The Black Stallion | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (136): “The Films of June 2023”

Posted on July 23, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > No 5-star classics this month- but six 4-star movies is still a cornucopia of riches. Can’t have everything, all the time. Let’s dive in. (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged acting, action, actresses, allegory, Americana, Amy Heckerling, arts, Audrey Hepburn, Avatar: The Way of Water, Barry Nelson, Being Mary Tyler Moore, biography, blockbusters, Catholicism, C’mon C’mon, children, Chris Pine, Christianity, cinema, Clarence Brown, cliches, Coleen Dewhurst, comedy, coming of age, conscience, corruption, crime, Crimes of the Future, criticism, Dana Andrews, David Cronenberg, Dean Jagger, documentary, Don DeFore, Don’t Worry Darling, Donna Reed, drama, entertainment, environment, evolution, faith, families, family, fantasy, farce, film noir, films, Florence Pugh, Frank Morgan, Fred Zinnemann, Gabby Giffords Won’t Back Down, gangsters, Gene Tierney, Griffin Dunne, gun violence, Harry Styles, HBO, horror, Howard Shore, ideas, injury, inspiration, James Cameron, Joaquin Phoenix, Joe Piscopo, Johnny Dangerously, Kate Winslet, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kristen Stewart, Laura, Léa Seydoux, male privilege, Mark Kelly, Maureen Stapleton, Michael Keaton, Mickey Rooney, Mike Mills, military, missionaries, movies, murder, mystery, obedience, oceans, Olivia Wilde, opinion, Otto Preminger, parenting, patriotism, performance art, personalities, Peter Boyle, Peter Finch, political terrorism, politics, propaganda, recovery, religion, revenge, reviews, Robert Mitchum, romance, Sam Worthington, sci-fi, science fiction, self-mutilation, sequels, Sigourney Weaver, small towns, The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Human Comedy, The Nun’s Story, values, Viggo Mortensen, Vincent Price, violence, William Saroyan, Woody Norman, World War II, Zoe Saldana | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (109): The Films of March 2021

Posted on August 2, 2021 by KPKeelan

. MARCH 2021: The month that was and the films that made it memorable. Dig in, compatriots! (All films are rated on a 5 star basis and must be over a decade old to get 5 stars.) (Titles in purple … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged action, adventure, Africa, animation, arts, Aubrey Morris, Audrey Hepburn, biography, Bluebeard, Britt Ekland, buddy films, Carroll Ballard, Catherine Breillat, Chinese culture, Christianity, Christine, Christine Chubbuck, Christopher Lee, Christopher Nolan, cinema, classics, comedies, coming of age, con artists, crime, criticism, David Lynch, deafness, Denholm Elliott, Disney, documentaries, drama, Dune, Ed Asner, Edward Woodward, entertainment, epics, equality, fairytales, family, family films, fantasy, films, Flix Pix, folktales, Frank Herbert, French cinema, friendship, Garret Gilchrist, genius, grifters, hearing, heavy metal, Himesh Patel, historical fantasy, historical fiction, honor, horror, horses, Hoyt Axton, human sacrifice, Ian Holm, ideas, infidelity, James Garner, Jane Fonda, jealousy, Jeff Bridges, John Brown, John David Washington, journalism, Kathy Bates, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Keelan, Kirikou and the Men and Women, Kirikou and the Sorceress, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kyle MacLachlan, legends, Little John, loss, Louis Gossett Jr, Maid Marian, marriage, masterpieces, mental illness, Michael C. Hall, Michael Caine, Michel Ocelot, Mickey Rooney, movies, Mulan, murder, My Octopus Teacher, mystery, nature, Nicol Williamson, oceans, Olivia Cooke, opinion, paganism, Preston Sturges, race, racing, Raul Julia, reviews, Rex Harrison, Richard Harris, Richard Lester, Richard the Lionheart, Richard Williams, rites, rituals, Riz Ahmed, Robert Pattinson, Robin and Marian, Robin Hood, romance, Royal Dano, sci-fi, science fiction, Scotland, Sean Connery, Sheriff of Nottingham, Sidney Lumet, Skin Game, slavery, Sound of Metal, suicide, surrealism, Susan Clark, suspense, Tenent, Terri Garr, The Black Stallion, The Morning After, The Sleeping Beauty, The Thief and the Cobbler, The Wicker Man, Tracy Letts, tragedy, TV news, Unfaithfully Yours, Vincent Price, war, wildlife, Youssou N'Dour | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (102): The Films of August 2020

Posted on July 26, 2021 by KPKeelan

. AUGUST 2020: A sombre time, but a great crop of movies! So many 4-and-a half and five-star films! Oh, the bounty, amid all the horror! Just pinch me. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Disability Revolution, activism, Adir Miller, Africa, Ali Ungár, American Indians, Americana, Americans with Disabilities Act, Andy Devine, animation, Anne Hathaway, Anthony Mann, apartheid, Austrian cinema, beekeeping, bees, Bill Plympton, Bill Pullman, Bruno Ganz, Burt Lancaster, Camp Jened, Cannibal! The Musical, Carl Reiner, celebrity, Chris Evans, Christopher Plummer, Cinema Verite, closure, colonialism, comedies, coming of age, corporate crime, courtroom drama, Crip Camp, Criss Cross, Dan Duryea, dancing, Daniel Craig, Dark Waters, Delmer Daves, Devil’s Doorway, Dick Van Dyke, disability, documentaries, Don Johnson, Dorotha Segda, drama, dreams, Du Pont, Earl Hamner Jr., Edgar Buchanan, Edward Everett Horton, Esy Morales, family films, fantasy, Frank Oz, Fred Astaire, genocide, Ginger Rogers, Hair High, Henry Fonda, Holocaust, homesteading, Honeyland, human rights, humor, Hungarian cinema, I Married a Strange Person, Idiots & Angels, Ildikó Enyedi, Inside Daisy Clover, Israeli cinema, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jews, John Carradine, John Doucette, John Ford, John Wayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Kenya, Knives Out, M. Emmet Walsh, Macedonia, Macedonian cinema, magical realism, Mare Winningham, Mark Ruffalo, Matt Stone, Mau-Mau, Maureen O’Hara, Michael Shannon, Michele Lee, Mickey Rooney, murder, musicals, Mutant Aliens, My 20th Century, mysteries, Natalie Wood, Nazis, noir, Out in the Dark, people, Percy Helton, Peter Simonischek, Plymptoons, poisoning, pollution, queer cinema, racism, redemption, relationships, responsibility, revenge, Revengeance, Rian Johnson, Richard Brooks, Robert Redford, Robert Siodmak, Robert Taylor, Rock Hudson, Roddy McDowall, Ruth Gordon, satire, Sidney Poitier, Sigmund Freud, Slovakian cinema, Something of Value, South Africa, Spencer’s Mountain, Stagecoach, success, surrealism, survival, Teflon, The Comic, The Interpreter, The Matchmaker, the past, The Tobacconist, The Tune, The Waltons, Tim Robbins, Todd Haynes, Toni Collette, Top Hat, trauma, Trey Parker, tribalism, violence, Wally Cox, westerns, whodunit, World War II, Yvonne De Carlo | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (100): The Films of JUNE 2020

Posted on July 24, 2021 by KPKeelan

. 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 →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 10cc, 8½, A Boy and His Dog, A Ship to India, Abbas Kiarostami, abuse, addiction, Adventures in Psychedelics, Akira Kurosawa, Alan King, And Life Goes On, Andy Richter, Andy Williams, animals, animation, Anthony Bourdain, ants, art, assistants, bank robbers, Barbara Bel Geddes, battle of the sexes, belief, belonging, Ben Stiller, betrayal, Bill Kreutzmann, biography, Birger Malmsten, Blake Edwards, Book of Exodus, brotherhood, Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles, Bunny Lake is Missing, Burt Lancaster, Canadian films, capers, Carrie Fisher, celebrity, censorship, Cesar Romero, Chadwick Boseman, Charles Bronson, childhood, Christopher Walken, cinema, class, classics, Cold Turkey, comedies, coming of age, Communism, composers, crime, criticism, Czech cinema, Czechoslovakia, Da 5 Bloods, dada, Dan Duryea, Danny Kaye, Dash Shaw, David Cross, Deepak Chopra, Delmer Daves, Delroy Lindo, destruction, Dianne Foster, Diary of a Chambermaid, Dick Van Dyke, disaster films, documentaries, Don Johnson, Donald O’Connor, Donovon, drama, Drive a Crooked Road, drugs, Dyan Cannon, dystopia, earthquakes, Emilio D'Alessandro, emotion, environment, Ernest Borgnine, Experiment in Terror, faith, families, family secrets, fantasy, farce, fascism, fathers and sons, Federico Fellini, feminism, film history, film noir, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, folktales, Frankenstein, Fred MacMurray, Fred Willard, French cinema, friendship, Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Gaza, Gene Kelly, General Francisco Franco, George C. Scott, Georgina Hale, Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, God, God Went Surfing With the Devil, Guns N' Roses, Harlan Ellison, Have a Good Trip, Helen Gurley Brown, Henry Fonda, Herb Alpert, historical drama, Holger Löwenadler, hope, horror, humor, hunger, hypocrisy, ideas, identity, illness, Ingmar Bergman, injustice, insecurity, Iran, Iranian cinema, Israeli cinema, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jacques Tati, Jane Mansfield, Japanese cinema, jazz, jealousy, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, Jesus, Jews, John Lennon, Jour de Fête, journalism, Judaism, Karl Malden, Ken Russell, Kevin Keelan, Kevin McCarthy, kidnapping, Kier Dullea, Kim Novak, Koker, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lacey Schwartz, Land Without Bread, Las Hurdes, Lauren Bacall, Laurence Olivier, L’Age D’Or, Led Zeppelin, Lee Marvin, Lee Remick, legends, Lewis Black, lies, life, Life and Nothing More, Little White Lie, Louis Armstrong, LSD, Luis Buñuel, Mahler, Marcello Mastroianni, Maria Schell, Martin Balsom, Mélanie Thierry, metaphor, Michael Murphy, Mickey Rooney, Miloš Forman, monsters, Moses, movies, murder, musicals, musicians, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea, Natalie Wood, Natasha, Natasha Lyonne, Natural disasters, Netflix, Nick Kroll, Nigel Davenport, Nina Paley, Noel Coward, Norman Lear, Oingo Boingo, opinion, oppression, Otto Preminger, Palestinians, parenting, peace, people, Phase IV, poverty, psychoactive substances, psychological drama, PTSD, Pushover, Quincy Jones, race, racism, Ramón Acín, Red Nichols, relationships, religion, resilience, reviews, Richard Quine, Rob Corddry, Robert Powell, romance, Rosie Perez, Ross Martin, S is For Stanley, sacrifice, Salvador Dalí, Sarah Silverman, Satchmo, satire, Saul Bass, scandals, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Connery, Seder-Masochism, self doubt, Sex and the Single Girl, sexism, sexual politics, Sidney Lumet, sight gags, sisters, slapstick, smoking, social criticism, social justice, soldiers, Spain, Spanish cinema, Spike Lee, Stanley Kubrick, Stefanie Powers, Sting, stories, suffering, surfing, surrealism, surrealists, surveillance, suspense, Swedish cinema, symbolism, tabloids, teenage sexuality, teenagers, terrorism, The Age of Gold, The Anderson Tapes, the Bible, The Big Heat, The Burglar, the Church, The Firemen’s Ball, The Five Pennies, The Four Tops, The Hanging Tree, The Holy Land, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail, The Pointer Sisters, The Spirit of the Beehive, the state, thriller, tobacco companies, Tony Curtis, tradition, tragedy, Tuesday Weld, Vera Cruz, Victor Erice, Vietnam War, violence, westerns, Will Forte, writer’s block, Zach Leary | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (94): The Films of December 2019

Posted on July 18, 2021 by KPKeelan

. December! Gad I hate this month. At least there are usually good movies out, vying for Oscar’s attention… (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged action, Adam Driver, Adam McKay, adventure, African cinema, Al Pacino, Alain Resnais, American history, Amy Ryan, animation, Anna Paquin, Anthony Hopkins, art, artists, Atlantics, Bad Times at The El Royale, beauty, Benedict XVI, betrayal, biography, Bishops, Bobby Cannavale, Caesar Romero, Captain Horatio Hornblower, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Cheyenne Autumn, childhood, Chinese cinema, Christianity, classics, comedies, comedy, crime, cruelty, Dean Martin, Deborah Kerr, digital technology, divorce, dogma, Don Rickles, drama, Drew Goddard, Duplo, dysfunction, E. M. Forster, Edward G. Robinson, emigration, Emmanuelle Riva, epics, faith, families, family, family films, fantasy, Fernando Meirelles, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, Frank Sheehan, Frank Sinatra, French cinema, Ganges River, gangsters, genocide, German cinema, Gregory Peck, grief, Harvey Keitel, heartbreak, Hiroshima Mon Amor, Huck Finn, humor, Hungarian cinema, I Hear You Paint Houses, ideology, India, Indians, Jack Goes Boating, James Stewart, Jean Renoir, Jeff Bridges, Jesse Plemons, Jimmy Hoffa, Joe Pesci, John C. Reilly, John Ford, John Paul II, Johnathan Pryce, Jorge Bergoglio, Joseph Ratzinger, Juliette Binoche, justice, Laura Dern, Lego Batman, life, love, maritime, Mark Twain, Marriage on the Rocks, Marriage Story, martial arts, Martin Scorsese, Mary Steenburgen, Mati Diop, Mickey Rooney, migration, Milorad Krstic, Mississippi River, Nazi Germany, Netflix, Never Look Away, Noah Baumbach, nuclear war, Ordet, organized crime, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Polish cinema, politics, Pope Francis, racism, Ray Romano, reform, relationships, religion, Ricardo Montalban, Richard Jenkins, Richard Widmark, Robert De Niro, romance, Ruben Brandt Collector, Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Koch, Senegal, sequels, Shadow, Step Brothers, Steven Van Zandt, supernatural, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Irishman, The Lego Movie 2 The Second Part, The River, The Two Popes, Toy Story 4, tradition, tragedy, war, westerns, Will Ferrell, Word War II, Wyatt Earp, Zhang Yimou | Leave a comment

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FLIX PIX (1134): “THE BLACK STALLION is a Family Adventure For Boys, and Anyone Who Loves Horses”

KPK on the CINEMA (136): “The Films of June 2023”

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KPK on the CINEMA (102): The Films of August 2020

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