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KPK on the CINEMA (142): “The Films of December 2023”

Posted on January 1, 2024 by KPKeelan

. > All hail December, the time of year most of the really great stuff hits America’s big silver screens (O the joy!), and tiny streaming devices (O, the horror!). Just check out how many of these titles came out in … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 20 Days in Mariupol, A Christmas Carol, A.O. Scott, Aardman Studios, Aaron Copland, Aaron Sorkin, ABC TV, action, actresses, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Adir Miller, Adolph Green, adventure, aggression, Alasdair Gray, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, Alexander Payne, allegory, Amanda Plummer, American history, American politics, American Symphony, amnesia, Andy Richter, animation, Anne Baxter, Anne Hathaway, Annette Bening, anthologies, Anthony Hopkins, anti-Semitism, Anwar Sadat, Armageddon Time, artists, arts, attachments, Audra McDonald, Banks Repeta, Barack Obama, Bayard Rustin, Bella Ramsey, Ben Gazzara, Ben Kingsley, Betty Comden, Bill Irwin, biography, biopics, blaxploitation, Bob Balaban, Bob Costas, Bradley Cooper, Branford Marsalis, Brian de Palma, British cinema, Britt Ekland, brutality, Bullworth, bullying, cancer, Carey Mulligan, Carol For Another Christmas, Celine Song, Charles Laughton, Charles Melton, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Chris Rock, Christian Bale, Christine Baranski, cinema, civil rights, Colman Domingo, comedians, comedies, comedy, coming of age, con artists, conductors, conscience, conspiracies, Coretta Scott King, creativity, criticism, Cuba, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dave Bautista, David Alan Grier, David Cross, David Griffin, David Zucker, death, Dennis Quaid, determination, Diana Nyad, diplomacy, Disney animation, documentaries, documentary, Dominic Sessa, Don Cheadle, Doris Kearns Goodwin, drama, Drew Barrymore, Duncan Jones, dystopia, ecology, Emma Stone, endurance swimming, entertainment, environment, environmental disasters, equality, Eric Bana, escape, Ethan Hawke, Eva Marie Saint, exploitation, explorers, fame, families, fantasy, farce, Farley Granger, Felicia Montealegre, feminism, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, Florence Pugh, Florida, folk heroes, Francis Ford Coppola, Frankenstein, fraud, Fred Allen, friendship, gender roles, genius, George Hamilton, George Kennedy, George Lucas, Golda, Golda Meir, Greta Lee, grief, grifters, Halle Berry, Harrison Ford, Hayao Miyazaki, Hayley Atwell, HBO, Helen Mirren, Henry Hathaway, Henry King, Henry Kissinger, Henry Koster, history, Holly Hunter, homosexuality, horror, Howard Hawks, humor, I Love You Again, ideas, Imelda Staunton, Indians, injustice, insanity, invasion, irony, isolationism, Israel, Israeli cinema, Israeli history, J. B. Smoove, J.J. Abrams, Jack Warden, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Gray, James Le Gros, Jamie Foxx, Japanese cinema, Jaylin Webb, Jeff Goldblum, Jeffery Katzenberg, Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Jeremy Strong, Jerrod Carmichael, Jewish Americans, Jodie Foster, John Batiste, John Boyega, John Ford, John Ford: The Man Who Invented America, John Hillerman, John Lewis, John Magaro, John Negulescu, John Steinbeck, John Williams, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Judd Hirsch, Julia Roberts, Julianne Moore, Kelly Reichardt, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Keelan, Kiefer Sutherland, Kiernan Shipka, kinship, Korean culture, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kristen Bell, Lance Crouther, Laurie Metcalf, Lawrence Kasdan, László Kovács, leadership, Leave the World Behind, Leonard Bernstein, Leonardo DiCaprio, Leslie Nielsen, Liam Neeson, liberation, Liev Schreiber, life, loneliness, Louis C.K., love, Lucy Liu, Madeline Kahn, Maestro, Mahalia Jackson, Mahershala Ali, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Hamill, Mark Ruffalo, marriage, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Scorsese, Mary Kay Letourneau, May December, Medgar Evers, Michele Obama, Michelle Monaghan, Michelle Williams, Miranda Richardson, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, movies, Mstyslav Chernov, murder, music, musicians, Myrna Loy, mysteries, mystery, Natalie Portman, native Americans, Netflix, Nyad, O. Henry’s Full House, O.J. Simpson, ocean, Oliver Platt, opinion, Oprah Winfrey, Oscar Levant, Paper Moon, parables, parody, Past Lives, Pat Hingle, Paul Giamatti, Paul Sorvino, people, personalities, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Coyote, Peter Sellers, political satire, Pom Klementieff, Poor Things, Pootie Tang, Priscilla Presley, protest, psychological thriller, publishing, race, racism, Ralph Fiennes, Ramy Youssef, Randy Quaid, Rebecca Ferguson, relationships, reviews, Rhys Ifans, Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Widmark, Rob Reiner, Robert Goulet, Robert Pattinson, Robert Shaw, Robert Vaughn, Robert Zemeckis, Rod Serling, romance, Russia, Rustin, Ryan O'Neal, Sally Field, Sam Fell, Sarah Silverman, satire, scams, sci-fi, science fiction, screwball comedies, Sean Astin, self-actualization, sequels, sex, sex abuse, sexuality, Showing Up, Simon Pegg, slice of life, Source Code, Spielberg, spoofs, sports, steampunk, stereotypes, Sterling Hayden, Steve Lawrence, Steven Spielberg biography, Strange World, Studio Ghibli, Suleika Jaouad, supernatural, surrealism, survival, Tatum O'Neal, Teo Yoo, terrorism, Teyonah Parris, Thandiwe Newton, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, The Boy and the Heron, the great depression, The Holdovers, The Monkey House, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, They Cloned Tyrone, thriller, thrillers, Todd Haynes, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Tom Stoppard, Tony Kushner, Ukraine, Vanessa Kirby, Vilmos Zsigmond, Ving Rhames, violence, W. S. Van Dyke, Wanda Sykes, war, war crimes, Warren Beatty, westerns, Willem Dafoe, William Powell, William Sydney Porter, writers, Yom Kippur War | 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

FLIX PIX (495): “ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL: The Big-Hair Days of Rock ‘n’ Roll”

Posted on April 23, 2022 by KPKeelan

ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL (directed by Sacha Gervasi, 2008) ***+ (out of 5) . > Not knowing anything about heavy metal music, I took this to be a rock mocumentary in the mold of THIS IS SPINAL TAP, but it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Anvil, art, cinema, criticism, films, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lips Kudlow, movies, opinion, reviews, Rob Reiner, rock and roll, Sacha Gervasi, Steve Kudlow, The Story of Anvil | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (76): The Films of June 2018

Posted on June 30, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Here we go again! Apparently, we are both still alive! Imagine that… Good. Good. (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 … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Africa, Angelina Jolie, Anvil, art, Barry Corbin, biblical epics, Burt Lancaster, Cambodia, Cecil B. DeMille, cinema, comedy, Craig T. Nelson, documentaries, Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood, drama, Edward G. Robinson, Ernest Borgnine, exploitation, film, film criticism, film noir, First They Killed My Father, Fritz Lang, Gene Wilder, genocide, H.G. Wells, H–Block, heavy metal, horror, I Am Not a Witch, Joan Crawford, JoBeth Williams, Joel Brooks, Johnny Guitar, Jonathan Banks, Kevin Keelan, Khmer Rouge, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lips Kudlow, Marlon Wayans, Maze, Mercedes McCambridge, Michael York, morality, movies, murder, music, opinion, politics, prison escape, religion, reviews, Richard Pryor, Rob Reiner, rock 'n' Roll, Rungano Nyoni, Shawn Wayans, Sidney Poitier, silent films, Sinn Fein, social satire, Sterling Hayden, Steve Kudlow, Stir Crazy, superstition, terrorism, the Bible, The Island of Doctor Moreau, The Story of Anvil, The Ten Commandments, the troubles, The Woman in the Window, tragedy, war, westerns, Zambia | Leave a comment

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KPK on the CINEMA (142): “The Films of December 2023”

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

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

FLIX PIX (495): “ANVIL! THE STORY OF ANVIL: The Big-Hair Days of Rock ‘n’ Roll”

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