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Somnambulant Stories 17: “Surfing an Indoor Tsunami”

Posted on June 12, 2024 by KPKeelan

. > I dreamt I was in a phone booth… Remember those? Shows what a living fossil I am! . So, I’m making a call about a plumbing problem at the hacienda, when I noticed water on the floor. Quite … Continue reading →

Posted in Somnambulant Stories | Tagged adventure, comedy, dada, fish, humor, insomnia, irony, karma, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, oceans, pollution, sleep, sleeplessness, Somnambulant Stories, stories, supernatural, surrealism, wit | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1284): “CAPTAIN NEMO AND THE UNDERWATER CITY is Pure Kitsch”

Posted on June 5, 2024 by KPKeelan

CAPTAIN NEMO AND THE UNDERWATER CITY (directed by James Hill, 1969) *** (out of 5) . > As a small child, my older siblings tell me I was crazy about a TV character named “Diver Dan”. Don’t remember him, but I … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged adventure, arts, Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, Chuck Connors, cinema, criticism, entertainment, fantasy, films, ideas, James Hill, Jules Verne, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, oceans, opinion, reviews, Robert Ryan | Leave a comment

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

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

FLIX PIX (990): “The Underwater Bliss of MY OCTOPUS TEACHER”

Posted on December 27, 2022 by KPKeelan

MY OCTOPUS TEACHER (directed by James Reed & Pippa Ehrlich, 2020) **** (out of 5) . > A popular Netflix crowd-pleaser, this lovely film was nominated for Best Documentary Feature. . It tells the sweet story of photographer Craig Foster, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, cinema, conservation, Craig Foster, criticism, documentaries, entertainment, films, healing, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, My Octopus Teacher, nature, Netflix, oceans, opinion, photographers, photography, Pippa Ehrlich, racism, reviews, science, wildlife | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (702): “CHASING CORAL: The World’s Disappearing Coral Reefs”

Posted on August 5, 2022 by KPKeelan

CHASING CORAL (directed by Jeff Orlowski, 2017) **** (out of 5) . > After chronicling the accelerated melting of polar ice with the Emmy winning documentary CHASING ICE, Jeff Orlowski turned his attention to global climate change, focusing on the world’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Chasing Coral, cinema, climate, criticism, documentaries, ecology, environment, films, global warming, ideas, Jeff Orlowski, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, oceans, opinion, reviews, science, sustainability | 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 (104): The Films of October 2020

Posted on July 28, 2021 by KPKeelan

. OCTOBER 2020: Some wonderful stuff here! Bon Appétit. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles in purple have been expanded for Flix Pix columns.) > … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Call to Spy, A Woman’s Face, Aardman Studios, abortion, abuse, action, adventure, aliens, ambition, American Utopia, Amos Nachoum, Andrei Tarkovsky, animals, animation, anti-Semitism, apocalypse, art, astronauts, Aulcie, Aulcie Perry, basketball, Beau Travail, Bill Paxton, Billy Budd, biography, Birdboy, British cinema, Broadway, brothers, capitalism, Cary Grant, celebrity, Channing Tatum, childhood, children, choices, cinema, Claire Denis, class, classics, Claymation, Clint Eastwood, Columbia, comedies, coming of age, complicity, concert films, Coney Island, conservation, corruption, Countdown, courage, crime, criticism, cruelty, David Attenborough, David Byrne, David McKenzie, discipline, documentaries, drama, dreams, drug abuse, earth, economics, Edgar Buchanan, elegy, Elmer Rice, emeralds, environment, equality, Erland Josephson, espionage, Ewan McGregor, exploitation, exposés, families, family films, fantasy, farm animals, Farmageddon, films, Foreign Legion, Frederick Wiseman, French cinema, French resistance, George Stevens, government, Grace Kelly, Green Fire, hardship, Hate Among Us, hatred, Haywire, HBO, healthcare, heroes, historical drama, human rights, humor, ideas, immigrants, incarceration, infidelity, Ingrid Bergman, injustice, insanity, institutions, James Caan, jealousy, Jean Arthur, justice, Ken Loach, Kevin Keelan, King Vidor, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, labor, Life On Our Planet, Little Fugitive, machismo, medicine, mental health, Michael Douglas, Michael Fassbender, mining, missions, movies, musicals, NASA, nature, Nazis, neglect, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, New York, oceans, opinion, people, personalities, photographers, photography, polar bears, poverty, puns, redemption, rescues, revenge, reviews, Rex Ingram, Richard Burton, Richie Andrusco, Robert Altman, Robert Duvall, romance, Ronald Coleman, Sarah Megan Thomas, sci-fi, science fiction, Shaun the Sheep, Sorry We Missed You, space program, Spanish cinema, spies, Spike Lee, sports, Steven Soderbergh, Stewart Granger, Street Scene, surrealism, survival, suspense, sustainability, Swedish cinema, Sylvia Sidney, Talking Heads, The Forgotten Children, the moon, The Picture of His Life, The Sacrifice, The Talk of the Town, thrillers, Titicut Follies, tragedy, trauma, treatment, violence, warnings, Where Eagles Dare, wildlife, women, working, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (98): The Films of April 2020

Posted on July 22, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > April 2020 saw me focusing on films by two of the most durable, respected icons of the cinema- black actors whose intrinsic dignity and integrity made them role models for millions of African Americans and other ethnicities who … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged actors, addiction, Adolfo Celi, Al Gore, Alain Delon, alcoholism, angels, anti-Semitism, Bibi Anderson, bigotry, Bill Wise, Bobby Darin, Boris Karloff, Brigitte Bardot, Britannia Hospital, British cinema, Britt Ekland, Captain Nemo and the Underwater City, Carl Theodor Dryer, Chuck Connors, cinema, classics, climate, comedy, corruption, crime, criminals, Dennis Weaver, Diahann Carroll, directors, documentaries, drama, Duel at Diablo, Duke Ellington, dysfunction, ecology, Edgar Allen Poe, Edge of the City, Edward G. Robinson, environmentalism, expressionism, faith, families, fantasy, Federico Fellini, films, French cinema, Fritz Lang, gangsters, Gary A. Patton, German cinema, God, gun violence, Harry Belafonte, hatred, history, horror, Hubert Cornfield, ideas, immigrants, Inger Stevens, Israel, Jack Warden, James Garner, Jane Fonda, jazz, Jeff Gibbs, Jews, Joanne Woodward, John Cassavetes, John Ford, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Jules Verne, Kevin Keelan, killers, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Krisha Fairchild, labor, László Kovács, life, Lindsay Anderson, Live and Become, loss, Louis Armstrong, Louis Malle, love, Malcolm McDowell, Martin Ritt, Mel Ferrer, Metzengerstein, Michael Moore, Mick Travis trilogy, migrants, misogyny, mistaken identity, movies, murder, musicians, mystery, Nazism, Neil Hefti, No Way Out, nuclear apocalypse, oceans, Operation Moses, opinion, Otto Wernicke, Paris Blues, Paul Newman, people, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Falk, Peter Fonda, Peter Sellers, Planet of the Humans, politics, power, Pressure Point, racism, Ralph Nelson, Reseda Drive-In Theater, reviews, Richard Widmark, Robert Ryan, Robert Wiene, Roger Vadim, Rudolf Klein, satire, sexism, showbusiness, Sidney Poitier, silent films, snipers, Spirits of the Dead, suspense, Targets, Terence Stamp, The Angel Levine, The Bobo, The Hands of Orlac, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, The Whole Town’s Talking, the world, The World the Flesh and the Devil, thrillers, Tim O’Kelly, Toby Dammit, Trey Edward Shults, vampires, Vampyr, violence, westerns, white supremacy, William Wilson, xenophobia, Zero Mostel | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (73): “All is Not Lost in ALL IS LOST”

Posted on June 27, 2021 by KPKeelan

ALL IS LOST (directed by J.C. Chandor, 2013) **** (out of 5) . > In only his second feature (after the excellent debut of 2011’s deft MARGIN CALL), director J.C. Chandor fashions a tight, taut, no-frills survival thriller that is … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged All is Lost, art, cinema, criticism, entertainment, film criticism, films, J.C. Chandor, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, oceans, opinion, reviews, Robert Redford, suggestions, survival | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: oceans

Somnambulant Stories 17: “Surfing an Indoor Tsunami”

FLIX PIX (1284): “CAPTAIN NEMO AND THE UNDERWATER CITY is Pure Kitsch”

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

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

FLIX PIX (990): “The Underwater Bliss of MY OCTOPUS TEACHER”

FLIX PIX (702): “CHASING CORAL: The World’s Disappearing Coral Reefs”

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

KPK on the CINEMA (104): The Films of October 2020

KPK on the CINEMA (98): The Films of April 2020

FLIX PIX (73): “All is Not Lost in ALL IS LOST”

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