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QuickPix (9): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 3”

Posted on January 6, 2024 by KPKeelan

> 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 to 5 star movie. It don’t get any better than this. … Continue reading →

Posted in QuickPix | Tagged American Made, Anthropoid, art, assassins, Barry Seal, CIA, Cillian Murphy, cinema, criticism, devotion, Domhnall Gleeson, Doug Liman, drama, drugs, entertainment, films, history, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, Nazism, opinion, pilots, QuickPix, religion, reviews, Roberto Rossellini, Sandinistas, smuggling, spirituality, The Flowers of St. Francis, Toby Jones, Tom Cruise, TWA, World War II | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (141) “The Films of November 2023”

Posted on December 2, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > There goes November. Here comes the heavy hitters of Oscarbait season. Some good stuff this month- and I suspect, some great stuff next month! Let’s get started: (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Time For Drunken Horses, Abu Ghraib, adaptations, Adolphe Menjou, Alan J. Pakula, All the Light We Cannot See, American culture, Amy Sedaris, and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy, animation, Anthony Doerr, Aria Mia Loberti, armed conflict, artists, arts, Bahman Ghobadi, Barbara Sukowa, battle, Ben Kingsley, Ben Platt, biography, Bob Balaban, Brenda Vaccaro, Brian de Palma, British cinema, Cameron Mitchell, Catherine O'Hara, celebrity, Cheaper By the Dozen, child actors, child labor, child soldiers, cinema, circus, classics, Clifton Webb, Columbian cinema, comedies, comedy, Confessions of a Nazi Spy, conspiracies, crime, criminals, criticism, Cromwell, cults, culture, Dalíland, Dark City, Dermot Mulroney, Desperate Souls, Devi, directing, Disney, documentaries, drama, Edgar Allen Poe, Edward G. Robinson, Elemental, Elia Kazan, entertainment, Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, escapes, espionage, European history, exploitation, fame, families, family, family films, fantasy, farce, fascism, filmmaking, films, France, Francis Lederer, Frank Bunker Gilbreth Jr., Fredric March, fundamentalism, Gala Dalí, gambling, Gloria Grahame, greed, guerillas, Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay, Hinduism, historical epics, history, horror, Hugh Laurie, Hume Cronyn, hysteria, ideas, Indian cinema, injustice, Iranian cinema, Joaquin Phoenix, John Cho, John Schlesinger, Jon Voight, Josephine, Jude Law, Julianne Nicholson, Kal Penn, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lars Eidinger, Liam Neeson, Louis Hoffman, love, Man on a Tightrope, Manos, Mark Ruffalo, marriage, Melissa McCarthy, Molly Gordon, movies, Myrna Loy, Nancy Buirski, Napoleon, nature, Nazis, Neil Patrick Harris, Netflix, Nick Lieberman, obsession, occupied France, opinion, Oscar Isaacs, parents, parody, patriarchy, Paul Lukas, Paul Schrader, Paula Prentiss, persecution, personalities, Pixar, political assassinations, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, precious gems, professional gamblers, PTSD, radio, rebels, relationships, religion, resistance fighters, revenge, reviews, Richard Boone, Ridley Scott, Rob Corddry, Robert Sherwood, romance, Rose Byrne, Saint-Malo, Salvador Dalí, satire, Satyajit Ray, screenwriting, sequels, smuggling, spectacle, spies, spirituality, spoofs, Spy, superstition, survival, The Card Counter, The Conqueror Worm, The Grey, The Parallax View, Theater Camp, thrillers, Tiffany Haddish, torture, totalitarianism, tradition, true stories, TV miniseries, Tye Sheridan, Vanessa Kirby, Vincent Price, violence, war, Warren Beatty, William Daniels, witch hunts, Witchfinder General, wolves, World War II, zealotry | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1060): “Edward G. Robinson is THE SEA WOLF”

Posted on May 10, 2023 by KPKeelan

THE SEA WOLF (directed by Michael Curtiz, 1941) ***** (out of 5) . > Taken from the Jack London story, Michael Curtiz delivers another slam-bang entertainment, featuring three great performances from three great stars. . This is a first-class adventure- a … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged adventure, art, Barbary Coast, cinema, classics, criticism, drama, Edward G. Robinson, entertainment, films, Ida Lupino, ideas, Jack London, John Garfield, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Michael Curtiz, movies, opinion, pirates, reviews, smuggling, The Sea Wolf | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (775): “At 89, Clint Eastwood Becomes THE MULE”

Posted on September 10, 2022 by KPKeelan

THE MULE (directed by Clint Eastwood, 2018) **** (out of 5) . > Oh man! . No matter what you think about Clint Eastwood’s surprisingly conservative views (which seem somewhat anachronistic considering the progressive themes he deals with in movies like … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged aging, Andy Garcia, art, Bradley Cooper, cinema, Clint Eastwood, criticism, drugs, economics, family, films, ideas, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Laurence Fishburne, Michael Peña, movies, opinion, reviews, smuggling, The Mule | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (120): The Films of February 2022″

Posted on March 25, 2022 by KPKeelan

. > February is here, and before the end of the month: the Oscar nominations. This year, I on on it, baby! The quest to see all the previous year’s most celebrated films is on. Titles in PURPLE have been … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 101 Dalmatians, A.I., About Endlessness, action, adventure, Afghanistan, aging, Alex Trebek, Alicia Vikander, Alzheimer’s, ambition, America America, animation, artificial intelligence, arts, Barry Keoghan, Bigbug, biographies, Bradley Cooper, carnies, Cate Blanchett, Channing Tatum, child abuse, cinema, classics, Columbian refugees, comedies, comedy, coming of age, con artists, crime, criminals, criticism, Cruella, Daniel Brühl, Danish cinema, David Gordon Green, David Lowery, David Strathairn, death, Dev Patel, diaspora, Dick Johnson is Dead, Disney, Disney animation, documentaries, drama, Dwayne Johnson, dying, dystopia, Elia Kazan, emigration, Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Encanto, England, entertainment, espionage, families, family, fantasy, fascism, fashion, fate, film noir, films, Flee, fraud, Free Guy, French cinema, Gael García Bernal, Greece, Greek emigration, grief, grifters, Grigori Rasputin, Guillermo Del Toro, hope, human life, human rights, human trafficking, Humphrey Bogart, ideas, immigrants, Jack Farthing, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jodie Comer, Joe, Joel Edgerton, John Huston The Green Knight, Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Kaiser Wilhelm, karma, Kevin Keelan, King George, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kristen Stewart, Lady Diana, life, Lin-Manuel Miranda, love, M. Night Shyamalan, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mary Steenburgen, memory, motherhood, movies, musicals, Netflix, Nicholas Cage, Nightmare Alley, obsession, Old, Olivia Coleman, online gaming, opinion, origin stories, people, Peter Lorre, philosophy, poverty, prequels, Prince Charles, Queen Elizabeth, Ralph Fiennes, refugees, remakes, responsibility, revenge, reviews, Rhys Ifans, Richard Jenkins, Ron Perlman, Rooney Mara, Roy Andersson, royal family, royalty, Rufus Sewell, Ryan Reynolds, Sally Hawkins, satire, science fiction, Sean Harris, sequels, smuggling, social criticism, social satire, Spencer, spies, Stanley Tucci, Stathis Giallelis, supernatural, Surface Pressure, surrealism, Swedish cinema, Sydney Greenstreet, Taika Waititi, technology, The Future, the Internet of everything, The King's Man, The Lost Daughter, The Maltese Falcon, The Mitchells Vs. The Machine, Thomasin McKenzie, Tim Blake Nelson, Timothy Spall, Tom Hollander, Toni Collette, tragedy, Tsar Nicholas, Tye Sheridan, villains, We Don’t Talk About Bruno, Willem Dafoe, World War I | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (99): The Films of May 2020

Posted on July 23, 2021 by KPKeelan

. MAY 2020 and the “shelter-in-place” lockdown drones on… Seeing boatloads of great films, but too much sitting down! Starting to feel like the film reviewer’s equivalent of John Lennon’s complaint “I’ve got blisters on me fingers!”- only that’s not … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Brighter Summer Day, Akira Kurosawa, Alfred Molina, Anne Bancroft, art, Arthur C. Clarke, Arthur Hiller, bank robberies, banned films, Ben Gazzara, capers, censorship, cinema, classics, Claudette Colbert, comedies, coming of age, Constance Towers, controversy, crime, criticism, Dan Duryea, Dean Stockwell, death, Denholm Elliott, Dick Shawn, divorce, drama, drug dealing, Ed Asner, Ed Begley, Edward G. Robinson, Edward Young, Emil Jannings, England, environmental illness, erotica, ethics, experimental film, families, family, family films, fantasy, Fay Wray, feudal Japan, feudalism, film noir, films, folklore, French cinema, Fritz Lang, futurism, gangs, Gary Oldman, Geoffrey Chaucer, German cinema, grief, H. G. Welles, HAL, HarBel Productions, Harry Belafonte, heists, Holy Rollers, horror, humanity, I Am Curious (Yellow), ideas, Imitation of Life, injustice, Irène Jacob, irony, Italian cinema, Japanese cinema, jealousy, Jean Louis Trintignant, Jesse Eisenberg, Joan Bennett, Joel McCrea, John Ford, John Wayne, Jonathan Winters, Joseph Losey, Julianne Moore, Julie Delpy, Juliette Binoche, justice, Justin Bartha, Keir Dullea, Kenji Mizoguchi, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Krzysztof Piesiewicz, Lena Nyman, Louise Beavers, love, masterpieces, Meantime, metaphor, Mike Leigh, miracles, morality, murder, Natalie Wood, Ned Sparks, obsession, Odds Against Tomorrow, opinion, Orthodox Jews, Pat O'Brien, peace, Penelope, people, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Falk, Phil Daniels, Pier Pasolini, pimps, power, racism, revenge, reviews, Robert Ryan, Robert Wise, Roland Young, romance, Ronin, Safe, Saint Jack, samurai, Sanjuro, Sansho the Bailiff, Scarlet Street, science fiction, sex, sexuality, silent films, Singapore, slavery, smuggling, socialism, Stanley Kubrick, suicide, suspense, Swedish cinema, Sydney Pollack, Taiwan, Telly Savalas, Thatcherism, The Boy With Green Hair, The Canterbury Tales, The Circus, the Civil War, The Horse Soldiers, The Man Who Could Work Miracles, The Most Dangerous Game, The Slender Thread, Three Colours: Blue, Three Colours: Red, Three Colours: White, Tim Roth, Todd Haynes, Toshiro Mifune, tragedy, trilogies, Turner Classic Movies, Variety, Vilgot Sjöman, violence, William Holden, women, World War II, youth, Zbigniew Zamachowski | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (88): The Films of June 2019

Posted on July 12, 2021 by KPKeelan

. JUNE! Here come the summer blockbusters. I’ll have to sort through the commercial “product” to find the authentic gems. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Bob Dylan Story, action, adoption, Africa, Amandla Stenberg, Andy Garcia, art, bigotry, Bill Murray, Black Lives Matter, Bob Dylan, Bradley Cooper, bulimia, celebrity, child abuse, cinema, Clint Eastwood, colonialism, counterculture, David Kellman, Deadheads, Dianne Wiest, documentaries, drama, drug trafficking, Edward Galland, Emily Litella, experiments, fame, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, humor, ideas, Jeon Seong-hwang, Joan Baez, John and Yoko Above Us Only Sky, John Belushi, John Lennon, Joni Mitchell, Kevin Keelan, Kim Ki-duk, Korean cinema, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Laurence Fishburne, Lisa Loopner, Long Strange Trip, love, Love Gilda, Martin Scorsese, Mexico, Michael Caine, Michael Peña, movies, music, musicians, opinion, partnership, police shootings, prejudice, racism, Ramblin' Jack Elliott, reviews, Robert Shafran, rock 'n' Roll, Roger McGuinn, Rolling Thunder Revue, Ronee Blakely, Roseanne Roseannadanna, Saturday Night Live, siblings, smuggling, SNL, survival, The Beatles, The Bow, the Grateful Dead, The Hate U Give, The Mule, The Untold Story of the Grateful Dead, Three Identical Strangers, touring, tragedy, triplets, Tupac Shakur, war, Yoko Ono, Zulu | Leave a comment

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QuickPix (9): “Great DRAMA For You to Savor, Vol. 3”

KPK on the CINEMA (141) “The Films of November 2023”

FLIX PIX (1060): “Edward G. Robinson is THE SEA WOLF”

FLIX PIX (775): “At 89, Clint Eastwood Becomes THE MULE”

KPK on the CINEMA (99): The Films of May 2020

KPK on the CINEMA (88): The Films of June 2019

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