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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 (873): “RICHARD JEWELL: Hero and Victim”

Posted on October 29, 2022 by KPKeelan

RICHARD JEWELL (directed by Clint Eastwood, 2019) **** (out of 5) . > I may be less than thrilled with Clint Eastwood’s politics, but at 90 years old, no one can argue that he is not one of our greatest living … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, Atlanta, biography, celebrity, Centennial Park bombing, cinema, Clint Eastwood, criticism, drama, FBI, films, heroism, history, ideas, John Hamm, journalism, Kathy Bates, Kathy Scruggs, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, Olivia Wilde, opinion, Paul Walter Hauser, reviews, Richard Jewell, slander, terrorism, the media, the press | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (727): “BOOKSMART, and Movies For a Younger Demographic”

Posted on August 17, 2022 by KPKeelan

BOOKSMART (directed by Olivia Wilde, 2018) *** (out of 5) . > There are not nearly enough women sitting in director’s chairs and modern cinema suffers because of this imbalance. . As a result, it should be no surprise to anyone … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Booksmart, cinema, comedies, criticism, films, girlfriends, high school, humor, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, Olivia Wilde, opinion, partying, reviews | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (101): The Films of July 2020

Posted on July 25, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > JULY 2020! Most of us are still alive! Well that’s something… (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 … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Ace in the Hole, Adolph Green, Aldolph Green, Alfre Woodard, Alice Pearce, alienation, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, American history, Ann Miller, Anne Baxter, art, Arthur Kennedy, astronomy, Atacama Desert, Atlanta, Augusto Pinochet, Barbara Stanwyck, Barbra Bel Geddes, Best Foreign Film, Betty Comden, Betty Garrett, Bill O’Reilly, Billy Wilder, biography, Blood on the Moon, Bombshell, Brian Keith, British cinema, Brock Peters, Centennial Park bombing, Charlize Theron, child abuse, Chilean cinema, Chris Cooper, Christine Lahti, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, Cinema Verite, Clint Eastwood, comedies, concentration camps, corruption, courage, crime, criticism, Cynthia Erivo, David Holzman’s Diary, David Spade, denial, dictators, documentaries, Down in the Delta, drama, dramady, dysfunction, Edward Dmytryk, Edward G. Robinson, Elio Petri, Elmer Bernstein, Ennio Morricone, Eric Rohmer, exploitation, families, fascism, fathers and sons, FBI, films, forensics, Fox News, Françoise Fabian, Frank Ferguson, Frank Sinatra, Fred Rogers, Fritz Lang, Gene Kelly, genocide, George Reeves, Geraldo Rivera, Gian Maria Volonté, Girl With the Green Eyes, Glenn Ford, Gretchen Carlson, grief, Harriet, Harriet Tubman, Having a Wild Weekend, Herbie Hancock, heroism, Holland Taylor, Holocaust, ideas, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Italian cinema, Jack Elam, Jaime Sánchez, Jane Fonda, Jay Roach, Jean Louis Trintignant, Jeanine Pirro, Jim McBride, John Boorman, John Hamm, John Lithgow, journalism, Juano Hernandez, Jules Munshin, justice, Kate McKinnon, Kathy Bates, Kathy Scruggs, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lauren Lapkus, Laurence Harvey, Leonard Bernstein, Life During Wartime, love, Luis Buñuel, Lynn Redgrave, Malcolm McDowell, Margot Robbie, Marie-Christine Barrault, Marketa Kimbrell, Marlene Dietrich, Matthew Rhys, Maya Angelou, media, Megyn Kelly, Mel Ferrer, mercenaries, Mississippi, mocumentaries, mothers of the disappeared, movies, Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, murder, musicals, My Night at Maud’s, Nazism, Netflix, New Orleans, New York, Nicole Kidman, Nostalgia For the Light, obsession, Olivia Wilde, On the Town, opinion, outlaws, Paul Reubens, Paul Walter Hauser, people, personalities, Peter Finch, policing, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, power, prostitution, PTSD, Rancho Notorious, Raymond St. Jacques, relationships, revenge, reviews, Richard Jewell, Richard Kind, Rita Tushingham, road trips, Rob Schneider, Robert Mitchum, Robert Preston, Robert Wise, rock and roll, Rod Steiger, Roger Ailes, romance, Rupert Murdoch, Russell Johnson, sailors, satire, Saul Bass, scandal, science, sexism, Shirley Henderson, Sidney Lumet, slander, slavery, spoofs, Stanley Donen, surrealism, survivor’s guilt, technology, terrorism, The Big Carnival, The Dave Clark Five, The Pawnbroker, The Phantom of Liberty, the press, the underground railroad, The Violent Men, The Wrong Missy, Todd Solondz, Tom Hanks, Tom Junod, trauma, Vera-Ellen, Walk on the Wild Side, Walter Brennan, westerns, William Frawley, workplace abuse, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (87): The Films of May 2019

Posted on July 11, 2021 by KPKeelan

. MAY! A slow movie month for me these days- but many pleasures nonetheless… (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 … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 2016 election, A Star is Born, acting, action, addiction, Afghanistan, alcoholism, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Alfred Molina, American politics, Aquaman, art, At Eternity’s Gate, Atlantis, Avengers Endgame, biography, blockbusters, Booksmart, Bradley Cooper, Captain America, child abuse, Chinese cinema, cinema, Colette, comedies, comic books, coming of age, crime, criticism, dancing, disaster, documentaries, Dominic West, doomsday, drama, Emmanuelle Seigner, extremism, fantasy, female directors, films, French writers, fundamentalism, gangsters, Gary Hart, genius, hatred, hubris, Hugh Jackman, ideas, IMAX, Iron Man, Islamic fundamentalism, J.K. Simmons, Jason Momoa, jihad, Joseph Crowley, Josh Brolin, Julian Schnabel, Keira Knightley, Kevin Keelan, Kevin Pollack, Knock Down the House, KPK, KPKeelan, Lady Gaga, legend, Mads Mikkelsen, Mark Ruffalo, Marvel Studios, Mathieu Amalric, mental illness, movies, musicals, Netflix, Niels Arestrup, Of Fathers and Sons, Olivia Wilde, opinion, Oscar Isaac, painters, patriarchy, plagiarism, Reggie Kray, religion, remakes, Ronnie Kray, Rupert Friend, scandal, science fiction, self destruction, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, singing, special effects, Spider-Man, stardom, superheroes, survival, Talal Derki, Taliban, terrorism, Thanos, The Front Runner, The Hulk, The Kray Brothers, The Wandering Earth, Tom Hardy, Tom Holland, Vera Farmiga, Vincent Van Gogh, violence, Willem Dafoe, writers, youth | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Olivia Wilde

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

FLIX PIX (873): “RICHARD JEWELL: Hero and Victim”

FLIX PIX (727): “BOOKSMART, and Movies For a Younger Demographic”

KPK on the CINEMA (101): The Films of July 2020

KPK on the CINEMA (87): The Films of May 2019

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