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KPK on the CINEMA (145): “The Films of MARCH 2024”

Posted on April 1, 2024 by KPKeelan

. > Eight 4-star films! Damn, that’s a good month. So much cinematic pleasure. Let’s dig in! (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 … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged #MeToo, 1921, A Minute's Wait, Aaron Jackson, abuse, acceptance, action, Adam Arkin, adventure, Alex Sharp, Alex Wolff, Amber Heard, American Samoa, Andre Brugher, Andreas Malm, animation, anthologies, Anya Taylor-Joy, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, arts, Ashley Judd, Austin Butler, Bill Nighy, biographies, Black Americans, Blitz Bazawule, Bowen Yang, British cinema, British folk heroes, British history, bureaucracy, capitalism, Cavalcade, change, Charlotte Rampling, Christopher Walken, cinema, classics, Coleman Domingo, comedy, coming of age, cooking, corruption, crime, criticism, Cyril Cusack, Daniel Goldhaber, Danielle Brooks, Dave Bautista, David Allen Grier, death, Denis Villeneuve, Dick Powell, Dicks: The Musical, disasters, discrimination, Dolph Lundgren, Donald Trump, drama, Dune: Part Two, ecoterrorism, Elizabeth Moss, Elvis Presley, England, entertainment, environmental activism, epics, families, family ties, Fantasia Barrino, fantasy, farce, fate, feminism, films, Florence Pugh, folk heroes, football, fossil fuels, Frank Herbert, Frank O'Connor, friendship, Fucking Identical Twins, Gene de Paul, Geoffrey Keen, global warming, grief, Gwyneth Paltrow, Halle Bailey, Harvey Weinstein, historical epics, historical fiction, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Howard Keel, humor, ideas, Ikiru, illness, Irish cinema, Irish culture, irony, Isabella Rossellini, It Happened Tomorrow, Jack MacGowran, James Austin Johnson, James Neilson, Jane Powell, Jason Mamoa, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Ehle, Jenny Slate, Jodi Kantor, John Ford, John Rhys-Davies, Johnny Mercer, Jon Batiste, Josh Brolin, Josh Sharp, Julie Newmar, justice, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lady Gregory, Léa Seydoux, Lesley Stahl, life, Linda Darnell, living, Louis Gossett Jr, love, Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Martin J. McHugh, Martin Short, Marvel films, Megan Mullally, Megan Thee Stallion, Megan Twohey, Michael Fassbinder, Michael Hordern, Michael Kidd, Michael Sarnoski, mockumentaries, monkeywrenching, mortality, movies, musicals, Nathan Lane, nature, New York Times, Next Goal Wins, Nick Offerman, Nicolas Cage, Noel Coward, oceans, opinion, Patricia Clarkson, Patrick MacGoohan, Patrick Wilson, pets, philosophy, Pig, pollution, Priscilla, profanity, protest, Rebecca Ferguson, relationships, remakes, René Clair, resistance, reviews, romance, Russ Tamblyn, sabotage, Samantha Morton, Sasha Lane, sci-fi, science fiction, sequels, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, sexism, sexual assault, She Said, silent films, smugglers, soccer, Sofia Coppola, sports, Stanley Donen, Stellan Skarsgård, superheroes, supernatural, Taika Waititi, Taraji P. Henson, Terry Gilkyson, The Color Purple, The Johnstown Flood, The Majesty of the Law, the rape of the Sabine Women, The Rising of the Moon, The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh, the troubles, The Wonderful World of Color, Thomas Rongen, thrillers, time, time travel, Timothée Chalamet, true stories, truffle hunters, Tyrone Power, underdogs, Walt Disney, Whoopi Goldberg, Will Arnett, Willem Dafoe, World War I, Zendaya | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1205): “BOOM! is the Sound of Tennessee Williams Imploding”

Posted on March 15, 2024 by KPKeelan

BOOM! (directed by Joseph Losey, 1968) ** (out of 5) . > Richard Burton and Liz Taylor in a melodrama penned by Tennessee Williams and directed by Joseph Losey? Okay. I’ll bite. . I found this strange overheated melodrama on YouTube- … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, Boom, cinema, criticism, death, drama, Elizabeth Taylor, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, ideas, Joseph Losey, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, Noel Coward, opinion, reviews, Richard Burton, Tennessee Williams | Leave a comment

QuickPix (17): “Great COMEDIES For You to Savor, Vol. 2”

Posted on January 11, 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 Aaron Sorkin, Alec Guinness, art, baseball, Ben Hecht, Brad Pitt, British cinema, cinema, classics, comedies, criticism, Design For Living, entertainment, films, Gary Cooper, humor, ideas, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Laurence Oliver, Marilyn Monroe, Michele Williams, Miriam Hopkins, Moneyball, movies, My Week With Marylin, Noel Coward, opinion, QuickPix, reviews, romance, sports, The Horse's Mouth, Wallace Beery, wit | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (140): “The Films of October 2023”

Posted on November 1, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > This month: a Noël Coward comedy of manners, a previously unseen Hitchcock thriller, a return to seminal swashbucklers of my youth, the Greatest Concert Film Ever Made, a silly Marx Brothers lark, Tracy and Hepburn meet Elia Kazan, … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged adventure, Africa, African safaris, Alexandre Dumas, Alfred Hitchcock, American Indians, Angel on My Shoulder, Angie Dickinson, animation, Ann Margaret, Anne Baxter, Anthony Asquith, Anthony Perkins, appearances, Aramis, Archie Mayo, artists, arts, Athos, Australian outback, Ava Gardner, Barry Corbin, Beauty and the Beast, Bobby Rydell, British cinema, Bye Bye Birdie, celebrities, celebrity, Charlie Musselwhite, Chris Frantz, cinema, Clark Gable, class, classics, Claude Rains, collectives, comedies, comedy, concerts, corruption, crime, criticism, D'Artagnan, Dan Duryea, David Byrne, Dead Ringer, Dean Stockwell, Dick Van Dyke, divorce, documentaries, drama, Dyan Cannon, dysfunctional relationships, Ed Sullivan, Edgar Buchanan, Elemental, Elia Kazan, Elizabeth Taylor, Elke Sommer, empowerment, England, entertainment, epics, espionage, exploitation, fables, fairy tales, fame, fantasy, farming, feuds, films, France, Frank Finlay, fraud, French cinema, game trafficking, George Sidney, Go West, God, good and evil, Grace Kelly, greed, Greer Garson, Gregory Peck, HBO, Herbert Ross, Hume Cronyn, humor, Ian McShane, ideas, infidelity, injustice, intrigue, Jack White, James Colburn, James Garner, James Mason, Janet Leigh, Jean Cocteau, Jerry Harrison, Jesse Plemons, Jessica Tandy, Joan Hackett, John Ford, John Lithgow, John Qualen, Jonathan Demme, Joseph Cotton, justice, Karen Morley, Karl Malden, Katharine Hepburn, Kevin Keelan, Killers of the Flower Moon, King Vidor, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Last Stop Larrimah, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lily Gladstone, Lionel Barrymore, love, Maggie Smith, Margaret Rutherford, marriage, Martin Scorsese, Marx brothers, Maureen Stapelton, Melvyn Douglas, Michael York, Mogambo, morality, movies, murder, music, musicals, mystery, Noel Coward, Norma Shearer, Norman Jewison, Oliver Reed, opinion, Orson Welles, Osage Nation, Our Daily Bread, Paddy Moriarty, Paul Lynde, Paul Muni, personalities, Pete Yorn, Pixar, Porthos, poverty, Private Lives, privilege, racism, Raquel Welch, redemption, relationships, reviews, rich and famous, Richard Benjamin, Richard Burton, Richard Chamberlain, Richard Lester, Robert De Niro, Robert Montgomery, rock and roll, Rod Taylor, romance, Satan, Shadow of a Doubt, slapstick, small towns, socialism, Spencer Tracy, spies, Stephen Sondheim, Stop Making Sense, stunts, supernatural, survival, suspense, swashbuckling, Talking Heads, Tay Garnett, Terrence Rattigan, The Art of Love, the eighties, The Four Musketeers, the great depression, The Last of Sheila, The Sea of Grass, The Three Musketeers, The V.I.P.s, The Valley of Decision, Thornton Wilder, Tina Weymouth, Tom Keene, tragedy, violence, westerns, whodunnit | 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

KPK on the CINEMA (119): “The Films of January 2022”

Posted on March 5, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > We survived 2021?? How the fuck did THAT happen??? (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 … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Adam Driver, adventure, American politics, Americana, Andrew Garfield, animation, anthologies, artists, arts, B. B. King, Barbara Stanwyck, Being the Ricardos, Belfast, Ben Johnson, biographies, biography, black culture, Blackstar, Boom, British Agent, British cinema, carnies, carnival midway, Catholics, celebrity, Cesar Romero, Cherry Jones, childhood, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, civil rights, classics, Cloris Leachman, Clu Gulager, comedy, coming of age, con artists, concerts, conflict, Crete, crime, Cybill Shepherd, cynicism, David Bowie, death, Desi Arnaz, Disney, division, documentaries, documentary, drama, Edward Arnold, Eileen Brennan, Eli Wallach, Elizabeth Taylor, Ellen Burstyn, entertainment, Ernst Lubitsch, espionage, evangelism, exploitation, film criticism, film noir, films, Frank Capra, fraud, French cinema, French history, Gary Cooper, George Clooney, German cinema, Gladys Knight & the Pips, grifters, Guillermo Del Toro, Haley Mills, Harlem, Harlem Cultural Festival, heists, historical drama, history, Hollywood couples, honor, House Un-American Activities Commission, HUAC, hubris, ideas, insight, Ireland, Irish playwrights, Irish politics, J.K. Simmons, Jack Cardiff, Jack MacGowran, Javier Bardem, Jeff Bridges, Jeremy Davies, Jerry Falwell, Jessica Chastain, Jim Baker, Jim Bakker, Joan Blondell, John Ford, Joseph Losey, Jude Hill, Judi Dench, Julie Christie, Kenneth Branagh, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lazarus, Lenin, Leslie Howard, Lucille Ball, Maggie Smith, manipulation, marriage, Matt Damon, Max Roach, Meet John Doe, memory, Michael Curtiz, mind control, movies, music, Natascha McElhone, Nicole Kidman, Nightmare Alley, Nina Simone, Noel Coward, Northern Ireland, opinion, patriotism, Peter Bogdanovich, politics, populism, Protestants, Questlove, race, Randy Quaid, rape, red scare, relationships, religion, remakes, reviews, Richard Burton, Ridley Scott, rivalry, rock and roll, Rod Taylor, romance, satire, scandals, sci-fi, science fiction, Seán O'Casey, silent films, Sly & the Family Stone, small towns, Solaris, soul music, spies, spiritualism, Sterling Holloway, Steven Soderbergh, Stevie Wonder, success, suggestions, Summer of Soul, surrealism, Tammy Faye Bakker, Tennessee Williams, Texas, the 5th Dimension, The Eyes of Tammy Faye, The House, The Last Duel, The Last Five Years, The Last Picture Show, The Moon-Spinners, The Next Day, The Oyster Princess, The Plow and the Stars, the Russian revolution, the Staples Singers, the troubles, Timothy Bottoms, tribalism, Tyrone Power, Vincent D’Onofrio, Viola Davis, violence, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised, Young Cassidy | 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 (7): The Films of July 2012

Posted on April 22, 2021 by KPKeelan

. I saw only 5 films in JULY of 2012, my slowest movie month… ever? Understandable, because during this time, I had suspended my Netflix subscription, I was away until I went away to Ireland. I did however enjoy DVD’s … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Attack the Block, Cameron Crowe, cinema, Design For Living, entertainment, Everything Must Go, film criticism, films, Game of Thrones, Gary Cooper, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, Noel Coward, opinion, reviews, Russ McElwee, The Six O'Clock News, The United States of Tara, We Bought a Zoo, Will Ferrell | Leave a comment

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