Tag Archives: Rosamund Pike

QuickPix (33): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 11”

Posted on January 20, 2024 by KPKeelan

> Welcome to KPK’s “QuickPix”, a new feature here in KPKworld! > 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 … Continue reading →

Posted in QuickPix | Tagged art, Ben Affleck, childhood, cinema, coming of age, criticism, David Fincher, dramas, drugs, Elia Kazan, entertainment, films, French cinema, Gary Cooper, gender identity, Gomorrah, Gone Girl, ideas, Italian cinema, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lili Palmer, love, movies, Natalie Wood, opinion, organized crime, QuickPix, reviews, romance, Rosamund Pike, sex, Splendor in the Grass, the Casalesi clan, thrillers, Tomboy, transgender, violence, Warren Beatty, William Inge | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (588): “HOSTILES is Dynamite”

Posted on June 9, 2022 by KPKeelan

HOSTILES (directed by Scott Cooper, 2017) **** (out of 5) . > This worthy film came and left the theaters in the blink of an eye. . I guess audiences were just not inspired. Perhaps it was the genre. How … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, Ben Foster, Christian Bale, cinema, criticism, films, Hostiles, ideas, Jesse Plemons, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, racism, reviews, Rosamund Pike, Scott Cooper, the Indian Wars, Wes Studi, westerns | Leave a comment

KPK on the Cinema (92): The Films of October 2019

Posted on July 16, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Rocktober! My favorite month. Another birthday and great weather in Santa Cruz by the sea. Welcome back, autumn. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 56 Up, A Private War, Aaron Paul, Abbas Kiarostami, action, Ad Astra, adventure, aging, animals, Antonino Banderas, aristocracy, art, Ash is Purist White, betrayal, biography, black culture, blacksploitation, Brad Pitt, Breaking Bad, Brian Wilson, Britain, Bryan Cranston, Bryce Dallas Howard, change, Charlotte Rampling, child abuse, children, China, Chinese cinema, Chris Parnell, Chris Pratt, cinema, classics, comedy, conflict, corruption, crime, crops, David Crosby, dinosaurs, documentaries, Dolemite Is My Name, Donald Sutherland, drama, Echo in the Canyon, Eddie Murphy, El Camino, epics, Eric Clapton, escape, families, fantasy, farmers, farming, fathers, film criticism, films, financial fraud, Fiona Apple, gangsters, Gary Oldman, gender roles, genetics, Geraldine Chaplin, Graham Nash, Hale County This Morning This Evening, HBO, historical fiction, humor, Iranian culture, J.A. Bayona, Jackson Browne, Jakob Dylan, James Cromwell, Jamie Dornan, Jennifer Fox, Jia Zhangke, John Sebastian, journalism, Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom, Keira Knightley, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Laura Dern, Laurel Canyon, Leo Tolstoy, life, Liv Tyler, Los Angeles, love, Marie Colvin, Matthew Heineman, memory, mental health, Meryl Streep, Michael Apted, Michelle Phillips, movies, music, musicians, nationalism, nature, Netflix, Norah Jones, nostalgia, obsession, opinion, parenting, Paul Conroy, people, performing, period pieces, Polish cinema, politics, privilege, Ralph Fiennes, Ramell Ross, rape, revenge, reviews, Ringo Starr, rock and roll, Roger McGuinn, romance, Rosamund Pike, science fiction, sequels, Sergei Bondarchuk, Seven Up series, shame, Sharon Stone, shell companies, social class, Soviet cinema, space travel, Stanley Tucci, Stephen Stills, Steven Soderbergh, success, survival, suspense, sustainability, the 1960’s, The Biggest Little Farm, The Duchess, the human condition, The Laundromat, the Panama papers, the seventies, The Tale, time, Toby Jones, Tom Petty, Tommy Lee Jones, USSR, values, Vince Gilligan, violence, war, War and Peace, Weather Forecast, Where is the Friends House?, Will Forte | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (79): The Films of September 2018

Posted on July 3, 2021 by KPKeelan

. A brand new month, a brand new crop o’ films! A lifetime love of movies. (All films are rated on a 5 star basis and must be over a decade old to get that 5 star designation.) (Titles in … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 12, 12 Angry Men, A Street Cat Named Bob, Adam Driver, addiction, Alec Baldwin, Alexander Payne, Ali Fazal, Anna Kendrick, art, Asim Abbasi, Ben Foster, biography, Blackkklansman, blacksploitation, Born in China, buskers, Cake, China, Christian Bale, cinema, comedy, corruption, criticism, Dave Franco, David Duke, Denis Villeneuve, destruction, disaster films, Disneynature, documentaries, doppelgangers, Downsizing, drama, Eddie Izzard, Enemy, extinction, films, Forest Whitaker, Fred Armisen, genocide, golden monkeys, Harry Belafonte, Hillary Swank, history, Hostiles, How It Ends, ideas, India, Isabella Rossellini, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Bowen, Jennifer Aniston, Jesse Plemons, John C. Reilly, John David Washington, John Krakowski, John Maclean, Judi Dench, juries, justice, Kat Graham, Kate Micucci, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Luke Treadaway, Matt Damon, Michael Buscemi, Michael Fassbender, Michael Gambon, Michael Peña, movies, murder, Natural disasters, nature, Nick Offerman, Nikita Mikhalov, Olivia Williams, opinion, overpopulation, pandas, police brutality, psychological thrillers, racism, reviews, Roger Spottiswoode, Ron Stallworth, Rosamund Pike, Russian cinema, Sam Worthington, sci-fi, Scott Cooper, Simon Callow, singers, Slow West, snow leopards, special effects, Spike Lee, success, surrealism, The Decameron, The Homesman, the Indian Wars, the Ku Klux Klan, The Little Hours, the seventies, Theo James, Tommy Lee Jones, Topher Grace, tragedy, Victoria & Abdul, Wes Studi, westerns, wildlife | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (40): The Films of APRIL 2015

Posted on May 25, 2021 by KPKeelan

. I saw 30 films in April 2015. Best. Month. Ever. Renewing my focus on “classic” cinema, I have never watched so many 5-star gems in one month: 12 of them! I was transfixed by treasures from the likes of John … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 3 Days of Peace and Music, 3 Godfathers, Aaron Aronofsky, Alec Guinness, Alfred Hitchcock, Anna Magnani, arts, Ben Affleck, Brian Keith, Busby Berkeley, Buster Keaton, Carson McCullers, Cary Grant, Celine Dion, Chloe Grace Moretz, Christoph Waltz, Christopher Plummer, cinema, Cinema Verite, Claudette Colbert, Cleopatra, Cloak and Dagger, Dan Steven, Danny Trejo, David Fincher, Diane Baker, Diane Lane, documentaries, Edmund Gwenn, Edward Dmytryk, Elizabeth Taylor, Emma Watson, Fata Morgana, Father Goose, film criticism, films, For Me and My Gal, Frank Capra, Frank Langella, Fritz Lang, Gary Cooper, Genevieve Bujold, Geoffrey Lewis, George Kennedy, George Roy Hill, Gone Girl, Gregory Peck, HBO, ideas, IMAX, Jack Weston, James Cromwell, James Gandolfini, James Mason, James McAvoy, Jeff Goldblum, Jennifer Connelly, Jim Broadbent, Joanne Woodward, John Ford, John Huston, John Wayne, Josh Groban, Julie Harris, Katherine Hepburn, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lady Gaga, Le Week-End, Leif Erickson, Lindsay Duncan, Marlon Brando, Maureen Stapleton, Michael Mann, Mirage, Miranda Richardson, movies, Muppets Most Wanted, musicals, nature, Noah, opinion, Percy Jones, Peter Stone, Preston Sturges, Ray Liotta, Reflections in a Golden Eye, reviews, Ricky Gervais, Rob Corddry, Robert Redford, rock 'n' Roll, Rosamund Pike, Russell Crowe, Salma Hayek, Saoirse Ronan, Sea of Monsters, Sean Combs, She, Sidney Lumet, Sophia Loren, Stanley Tucci, Stephen Boyd, Still Mine, Sylvia Scarlett, Tennessee Williams, Terence Stamp, The Fall of the Roman Empire, The Fugitive Kind, The Great McGinty, The Great Waldo Pepper, The Saphead, The Skin Game, The Westerner, Tim Robbins, Tina Fey, Toby Jones, Tom Hiddleston, Tony Bennett, Trevor Howard, Under the Sea, Usher, Wagon Master, Walter Brennan, Walter Matthau, Werner Herzog, William Wyler, Woodstock, Zach Galifianakis | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Rosamund Pike

QuickPix (33): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 11”

FLIX PIX (588): “HOSTILES is Dynamite”

KPK on the CINEMA (79): The Films of September 2018

KPK on the CINEMA (40): The Films of APRIL 2015

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