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FLIX PIX (1248): “THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS is Silly Fluff From a Great Director”

Posted on April 28, 2024 by KPKeelan

THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS (directed by Roman Polanski, 1967) ** (out of 5) . > I first heard about this early Polanski film many decades ago, in another life. Here, the iconic Polish director both acts and directs. . Made only … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, camp, cinema, comedies, criticism, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, horror, ideas, Jack MacGowen, Kevin Keelan, kitsch, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, reviews, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, slapstick, supernatural, The Fearless Vampire Killers, Transylvania, vampires | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1206): “It’s One Man Versus HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS!”

Posted on March 16, 2024 by KPKeelan

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS (directed by Mike Cheslik, 2024) *** (out of 5) . > Silly! Goofy! Wacky, surreal stuff! This movie is as loony as any film I’ve ever seen. . An obvious acolyte of fellow Canadian imagemaker Guy Maddin, Mike … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, Canadian cinema, cinema, comedy, criticism, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, Hundreds of Beavers, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, melodrama, Mike Cheslik, movies, opinion, reviews, silent films, slapstick, surrealism | Leave a comment

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 →

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KPK on the CINEMA (140): “The Films of October 2023”

Posted on November 1, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > This month: a Noël Coward comedy of manners, a previously unseen Hitchcock thriller, a return to seminal swashbucklers of my youth, the Greatest Concert Film Ever Made, a silly Marx Brothers lark, Tracy and Hepburn meet Elia Kazan, … Continue reading →

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FLIX PIX (1091): “JOUR DE FÊTE is ‘Celebration Day’ For Jaques Tati”

Posted on July 15, 2023 by KPKeelan

JOUR DE FÊTE (“Celebration Day”) (directed by Jacques Tati, 1949) **** (out of 5) . > French master of the sight-gag, Frenchman Jacques Tati only made six feature films, but he is remembered as one of the most inspired visual comic … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, Celebration Day, cinema, comedies, criticism, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, French cinema, humor, ideas, Jacques Tati, Jour de Fête, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, reviews, sight gags, slapstick | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (926): “In 1967, CASINO ROYALE Was Kitschy Trash. It Still Is.”

Posted on November 25, 2022 by KPKeelan

CASINO ROYALE (directed by John Huston, Val Guest, Joseph McGrath, Ken Hughes & Robert Parrish, 1967) *+ (out of 5) . > Not two minutes into the opening credits I saw one good reason why this is considered one of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged 007, arts, bombs, camp, Casino Royale, Charles Boyer, cinema, comedies, criticism, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, entertainment, films, George Raft, Ian Fleming, ideas, Jacqueline Bisset, James Bond, John Huston, Joseph McGrath, Ken Hughes, Kevin Keelan, kitsch, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, Orson Welles, Peter Sellers, reviews, Robert Parrish, satire, slapstick, spies, spoofs, turkeys, Ursula Andress, Val Guest, William Holden, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

KPK on the Cinema (121): The Films of MARCH 2022

Posted on April 19, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > MARCH 2022! TIME MARCHES ON! (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to get 5 stars.) (All titles in PURPLE have been expanded for Flix Pix columns.) > This month I … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Big Hand For the Little Lady, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, addiction, AFI, Al Pacino, Alan Hale, Alana Haim, American Film Institute, animation, Ansel Elgort, Aretha Franklin, Ariana DeBose, Arthur O'Connell, arts, Audra McDonald, Aunjanue Ellis, backstage musicals, Benny Safdie, Bhutanese cinema, biography, Bradley Cooper, British cinema, Burgess Meredith, Buster Keaton, Catherine Deneuve, Charles Bickford, Charlotte Rampling, child abuse, Christine Ebersole, cinema, cliches, Clint Eastwood, comedies, comedy, coming of age, Cooper Hoffman, crime, criticism, Cry Macho, Danielle Haim, Dave Bautista, David Alvarez, Denis Villeneuve, Disney, drama, drifters, Dune, Dwight Yokam, Eileen Brennan, Elizabeth Hartman, entertainment, epics, escapes, Este Haim, families, fantasy, films, Forest Whitaker, Francis Ford Coppola, Frank Herbert, Fred Gwynne, friendship, gambling, gangs, Gary Goetzman, Gene Hackman, gentrification, George DiCaprio, Geraldine Page, gospel, Grant High School, Haim, Harriet Sansom Harris, Henry Fonda, Herman Munster, Hollywood, Hume Cronyn, ideas, insanity, irony, Italy, Jack Gilford, Jason Momoa, Jason Robards, Javier Bardem, Jennifer Hudson, Jerry Schatzberg, Joanne Woodward, Joel Wachs, John B. Sebastian, John C. Reilly, John Michael Higgins, John Randolph, Jon Peters, Josh Brolin, Karen Black, Kevin Keelan, Kevin McCarthy, King Richard, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Leonard Bernstein, Licorice Pizza, Luca, Lucille Ball, Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom, madness, Marlon Wayans, Martin Luther King Jr., Maya Rudolph, melodrama, mental illness, mentoring, Mexico, Michael Hordern, movies, musical, musicals, musicians, New York City, opinion, Oscar Isaac, parenting, Paul Ford, Paul Thomas Anderson, Peter Kastner, Phil Silvers, Pixar, prisoners, psychological drama, Rachel Zegler, relationships, remakes, Repulsion, respect, reviews, Richard Williams, Rip Torn, road trips, Roman Polanski, romance, Romeo and Juliet, rural life, San Fernando Valley, Scarecrow, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Penn, Serena Williams, sex, sex comedy, singers, slapstick, soul music, sports films, stardom, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen Sondheim, Steven Spielberg, success, supernatural, Tail o’ the Cock, teachers, teaching, tennis, The Broadway Melody, There Was a Crooked Man, Timothée Chalamet, tragedy, Venus Williams, violence, Warren Oates, West Side Story, westerns, Will Smith, William Holden, You’re a Big Boy Now, Yours Mine and Ours, Zendaya, Zero Mostel | Leave a comment

“OPENING REMARKS to “An Evening of Intense MADNESS & INSANITY!” (a comic revue by KPKeelan)

Posted on November 17, 2021 by KPKeelan

. (This is from the script to an original comic review I wrote, produced and directed with a very large cast of crazy people, in late summer of 1978. Enjoy!) * (OPENING REMARKS TO) THE MOST WONDERFUL PANDEMONIUM THEARE COMPANY … Continue reading →

Posted in TASTY TIDBITS | Tagged arts, comedy, humor, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Madness and Insanity, plays, scripts, slapstick, theater | 2 Comments

KPK on the CINEMA (114): The Films of August 2021

Posted on November 7, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > THIS MONTH: Disney animation, Judy Holliday comedies, sly social satire, stark drama, film noir, experimental cinema, tales of obsession and coming of age, and vacuous British pop romance from the swinging sixties. (Sorry, no gothic horror documentaries this … Continue reading →

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KPK on the CINEMA (105): The Films of November 2020

Posted on July 29, 2021 by KPKeelan

. NOVEMBER 2020… Finally finished in March 2021! Slowly working my way through the backlog, with 31 down and 42 to go! (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: slapstick

FLIX PIX (1248): “THE FEARLESS VAMPIRE KILLERS is Silly Fluff From a Great Director”

FLIX PIX (1206): “It’s One Man Versus HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS!”

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

KPK on the CINEMA (140): “The Films of October 2023”

FLIX PIX (1091): “JOUR DE FÊTE is ‘Celebration Day’ For Jaques Tati”

FLIX PIX (926): “In 1967, CASINO ROYALE Was Kitschy Trash. It Still Is.”

KPK on the Cinema (121): The Films of MARCH 2022

“OPENING REMARKS to “An Evening of Intense MADNESS & INSANITY!” (a comic revue by KPKeelan)

KPK on the CINEMA (114): The Films of August 2021

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