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KPK on the CINEMA (144): “The Films of FEBRUARY 2024”

Posted on March 1, 2024 by KPKeelan

. > This month: Three superhero flicks- one terrible, the other two, surprisingly good. Two animated films, one a disappointment, the other one pretty damn good. The biography of a comedy legend. A smattering of more obscure titles from the … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Foreign Affair, A Guy Named Joe, Abraham Lincoln, abuse, acceptance, action, Adolphe Menjou, adventure, Alan Arkin, Angela Bassett, animation, Anthony Asquith, Anthony Mann, Antonio Banderas, archeology, arts, awareness, Barry Nelson, beauty, Billy Crudup, Billy Wilder, biography, Bradley Cooper, British cinema, British history, Canadian cinema, Carl Reiner, Cary Grant, celebrity, children, Chris Pratt, cinema, Clifford Odets, comedy, comic books, corruption, coups, crime, criminals, criticism, cynicism, Dalton Trumbo, Dan Duryea, Daniel Kaluuya, Dave Bautista, David Niven, Dianne Wiest, Dick Powell, dictatorship, Disney, diversity, documentaries, documentary, drama, Dream Scenario, dreams, Dylan Gelula, dystopia, Edward Scissorhands, Elaine May, English history, entertainment, epics, escapes, Ester Williams, exploitation, extremism, fame, families, family separation, fantasy, films, Four Daughters, Fred Zinnemann, friendship, fulfillment, Guardians of the Galaxy, Guns of Darkness, Harrison Ford, Harry Lloyd, HBO, Henry Selick, historical fiction, Hugh Griffith, human rights, humor, humorists, Hundreds of Beavers, ideas, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, injustice, Iranian cinema, Irene Dunne, Islamic State, Issa Rae, Jackie Earle Haley, Jafar Panahi, James Hong, James Mangold, Jane Wyatt, Japanese cinema, Jean Arthur, John Cassavetes, John Lund, John Rhys-Davies, Johnny Depp, Jordan Peele, Julianne Nicholson, June Duprez, Kaouther Ben Hania, Karen Allen, Kathy Bates, Keegan-Michael Key, Kevin Keelan, King Richard III, Koji Yakusho, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kristoffer Borgli, Leslie Caron, Lewis Milestone, Lionel Barrymore, love, Lucasfilm, Mads Mikkelsen, Malin Åkerman, Marlene Dietrich, Marlon Brando, Marvel Studios, Mel Brooks: Unwrapped, melodrama, Michael Cera, Mike Cheslik, Mikey and Nicky, military, Miss Ethel Barrymore, Montgomery Clift, movies, Mutiny On the Bounty, nature, Nazis, Ned Beatty, Netflix, Nicolas Cage, nihilism, No Bears, nonconformity, None But the Lonely Heart, opinion, oppression, Oscar Isaac, parable, patriarchy, Patrick Wilson, people, Perfect Days, Peter Falk, Philippa Langley, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Pom Klementieff, pop culture, radicalization, rape, relationships, reviews, Richard Harris, romance, Ruby Dee, Sally Hawkins, sci-fi, science fiction, seafaring, sequels, silent films, slapstick, slice of life, Spencer Tracy, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, Stephen Frears, Steve Coogan, superheroes, supernatural, superstition, surrealism, Tahiti, talent, terrorism, The Lost King, The Search, The Tall Target, thrillers, Tim Burton, Tim Meadows, time travel, Toby Jones, Tokyo, tradition, tragedy, trauma, Trevor Howard, true stories, Tunisian cinema, underground filmmaking, Van Johnson, Victor Fleming, Vin Diesel, Vincent Price, Ving Rhames, Vol. 3, Ward Bond, Watchmen, Wendell & Wild, Will Geer, Wim Wenders, Winona Ryder, women, workers, World War II, Zack Snyder | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (139): “The Films of September 2023”

Posted on October 1, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > Some real gems in the compendium this month. Even the lesser films were surprisingly entertaining. I enjoyed ‘em all. (Except for THE ROUNDERS. That was pretty stinky.) But my greatest pleasures seemed to come from revisiting past cinematic … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Aaron Paul, action, Adam West, adventure, Alfred Hitchcock, Alida Valli, American politics, apocalypse, Armageddon, Arthur Kennedy, arts, assassination, B-movies, Batman, Ben Kingsley, biblical epics, biography, British cinema, Bruce Wayne, Burgess Meredith, Burt Ward, camp, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Catwoman, Cedric Hardwicke, Cesar Romero, Changi Prison, Christian Bale, cinema, class, classics, Claude Rains, Colectiv Nightclub, Collective, comedy, comic books, coming of age, Communism, corruption, courtroom drama, crime, criminals, criticism, cult films, Dame May Whitty, Denholm Elliot, Dick Grayson, disasters, discipline, documentaries, drama, dramady, dystopia, Elizabeth Taylor, entertainment, espionage, Exodus God's and Kings, families, fantasy, Father's Little Dividend, films, fires, forgery, forgiveness, Frank Gorshin, fraud, gangsters, George Segal, Glenn Ford, Gordon Parks, government accountability, grandparents, Harvey Keitel, hitmen, hustlers, I Am Legend, ideas, Indians, Israeli cinema, James Fox, Jane Curtain, Joel Edgerton, John Huston, John Mills, John Turturro, justice, Kevin Keelan, King Rat, kitsch, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lee Israel, Lee Meriwether, Leonard Rossiter, Little Italy, Lloyd Bridges, mafia, Man in the Wilderness, manipulation, Margaret Lockwood, Marielle Heller, Martin Scorsese, Mean Streets, Melissa McCarthy, Michael Redgrave, Mossad, mountain climbing, movies, mystery, mythology, native Americans, Nazis, Nazism, New York, opinion, Oscar Homolka, parenthood, Patrick O'Neal, politics, punishment, racism, rebellion, redemption, reform school, religion, revenge, reviews, Richard E. Grant, Richard Harris, Richard Matheson, Ridley Scott, Robert De Nero, Robin the Boy Wonder, romance, Romanian cinema, scandal, sci-fi, science fiction, Sigourney Weaver, Singapore, Spencer Tracy, spies, superheroes, supervillains, survival, Swiss Alps, The Joker, The Lady Vanishes, The Last Man on Earth, The Learning Tree, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, The Penguin, The Revenant, the Riddler, The White Tower, Tom Courtenay, Tom Courtnay, Tony Richardson, tragedy, Trial, Vincent Price, violence, Walk On Water, westerns, zombies | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1123): “ROBIN AND MARIAN is a Geriatric Robin Hood Fable”

Posted on September 21, 2023 by KPKeelan

ROBIN AND MARIAN (directed by Richard Lester, 1976) **** (out of 5) * > O frabjous joy! to rediscover this old Dick Lester romance! . It is, for me, one of those seminal films that comes with a story attached: . … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, Audrey Hepburn, cinema, criticism, Denholm Elliott, fantasy, films, Friar Tuck, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, legends, Little John, Maid Marian, memory, movies, Nicol Williamson, opinion, reviews, Richard Harris, Richard Lester, Robert Shaw, Robin and Marian, Robin Hood, romance, Ronnie Barker, Santa Cruz, Sash Mill Cinema, Sean Connery, Sheriff of Nottingham, tragedy | 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 (122): The Films of April 2022

Posted on May 2, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > APRIL 2022! SO BE IT. (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 columns) > This month I … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Adam Driver, adventure, Al Pacino, Alessandro Nivola, Alf Kjellin, allegories, Anthony Perkins, anti-Semitism, arts, Audrey Hepburn, authoritarianism, Ben Johnson, big business, Billy Magnussen, biography, Blackmail, Brock Peters, Brute Force, Burt Lancaster, Charlton Heston, cinema, Civil War, classics, Claude Rains, Cloris Leachman, comedy, Corey Stoll, corruption, crime, criticism, David Chace, Debbie Reynolds, detectives, drama, drams, Elizabeth Ashley, entertainment, Erol Flynn, escapes, families, fantasy, film noir, films, George Segal, Glenn Ford, Green Mansions, Gunnel Lindblom, Heinz Rühmann, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Henry Silva, House of Gucci, Hume Cronyn, ideas, identity, innocence, intolerance, Jack Elam, jailbreaks, James Coburn, James Gandolfini, Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons, Jim Hutton, Jose Ferrer, Jules Dassin, justice, Kevin Keelan, Kiss Me Deadly, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lady Gaga, Lee J. Cobb, Lee Marvin, Leslie Odom Jr., mafia, Major Dundee, Mark Twain, marriage, Max Von Sydow, Mel Ferrer, Michael Dunn, Michael Gandolfini, Mickey Spillane, Mike Hammer, movies, murder, mystery, native tribes, Nazism, opinion, Oskar Werner, prequels, prisoners, racism, Ralph Meeker, rape, Ray Loitta, refugees, revenge, reviews, Richard Harris, Ridley Scott, Rob Reiner, Robert Aldrich, romance, royalty, Salma Hayek, Sam Peckinpah, Sessue Hayakawa, Ship of Fools, Simone Signoret, Slim Pickins, Stanley Kramer, Strother Martin, success, suspense, Sven Nykvist, Swedish cinema, The Gazebo, The Many Saints of Newark, The Prince and the Pauper, The Sopranos, The Virgin Spring, tragedy, Venezuela, Vera Farmiga, violence, Vivien Leigh, Warren Oats, Werner Klemperer, westerns, World War II | 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

Tag Archives: Richard Harris

KPK on the CINEMA (144): “The Films of FEBRUARY 2024”

KPK on the CINEMA (139): “The Films of September 2023”

FLIX PIX (1123): “ROBIN AND MARIAN is a Geriatric Robin Hood Fable”

KPK on the CINEMA (135) “The Films of May 2023”

KPK on the CINEMA (122): The Films of April 2022

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

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