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Tag Archives: The Beatles
QuickPix (19): “Great MUSICALS For You to Savor, Vol. 2”
> 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 art, Beach Boys, biography, Brian Wilson, Chadwick Boseman, cinema, classics, criticism, Devo Live in the Land of the Rising Sun, Elizabeth Banks, entertainment, films, Get On Up, ideas, James Brown, Japan, John Cusack, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Love & Mercy, Love is All You Need, movies, music biographies, music documentaries, musicals, musicians, new wave, opinion, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti, performance, QuickPix, reviews, rock and roll, The Beatles, Yoko Ono
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FLIX PIX (796): “A Fond Look at JOHN AND YOKO: ABOVE US ONLY SKY”
JOHN AND YOKO: ABOVE US ONLY SKY (directed by Michael Epstein, 2019) ****+ (out of 5) . > One would think that by now, the public had seen all the John Lennon footage out there to be seen… One would be … Continue reading
Posted in Flix Pix
Tagged art, biography, cinema, criticism, documentaries, films, ideas, John and Yoko Above Us Only Sky, John Lennon, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, life, Michael Epstein, movies, musicians, opinion, reviews, The Beatles, Yoko Ono
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FLIX PIX (736): “Nostalgia For YESTERDAY”
YESTERDAY (directed by Danny Boyle, 2019) *** (out of 5) . > I went to see YESTERDAY yesterday. It sounded kinda funny at the box office to ask: “May I have a ticket for Yesterday, please?” (Almost as though I was … Continue reading
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Tagged art, cinema, criticism, Danny Boyle, fantasy, films, Himesh Patel, ideas, John Lennon, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lily James, movies, music, musicians, opinion, reviews, The Beatles, Yesterday
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FLIX PIX (241): “The Fab Four Have A HARD DAY’S NIGHT”
A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (directed by Richard Lester, 1964) ***** (out of 5) . > I hadn’t seen this classic British musical comedy in decades, and now that DVD’s are routinely captioned, I thought it might be safe to revisit … Continue reading
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Tagged A Hard Day's Night, Alun Owen, art, Beatlemania, cinema, film criticism, films, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, music, musicals, opinion, pop culture, reviews, Richard Lester, rock and roll, The Beatles
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“A Paisley-Colored Look Back at THE BEATLES: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond” (by KPKeelan)
IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO TODAY! The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper & Beyond (directed by Alan Parker, 2017) *** (out of 5) * > This journal of the great psychedelic-maharaja-Peter Max period the Beatles personified from 1966 to 1970, is both … Continue reading
Posted in QUIET in the BACK!
Tagged Alan Parker, art, cinema, criticism, death, documentaries, drama, Eight Days a Week, films, ideas, It Was 50 Years Ago Today, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, music, opinion, popular culture, reviews, rock and roll, Ron Howard, The Beatles
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KPK on the CINEMA (88): The Films of June 2019
. 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
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KPK on the CINEMA (68): The Films of OCTOBER 2017
. Having a hard time writing reviews lately. Lonely stuff, sometimes, but that’s the work of a writer. When I buckle down and just DO IT, the process usually brings great rewards. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. … Continue reading
Posted in KPK on the CINEMA
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KPK on the Cinema (59): The Films of JANUARY 2017
. WELCOME to a fresh new year of cinematic ruminations. With one exception, I really enjoyed watching every film I saw this first month of the scary New Trumpian Era. (Can’t say CLIENT 9 was exactly entertaining.) (Ratings are on … Continue reading
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Tagged A War, action, Albert Brooks, Alec Baldwin, animation, Anna Ferris, Anthony Weiner, art, Ben Kingsley, Ben Wheatley, Bill Murray, biography, Borgen, Chris Pine, cinema, Client 9, comedy, Concussion, criticism, Danish cinema, Disney, documentaries, Dr. Bennet Oamlu, drama, Eight Days a Week, Elizabeth Moss, Elizabeth Olsen, films, football, Gary Shandling, Guy Maddin, Hank Williams, Haskell Wexler, heists, High-Rise, I Saw the Light, Idris Elba, Jennifer Lawrence, Jon Favreau, Keanu, Kevin Keelan, Key & Peele, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kubo and the Two Strings, Laika Entertainment, Laurie Anderson, Lou Reed, Luis Guzmán, Luke Evans, Lupita Nyong’o, Marshall McLuhan, mass media, Maximilian Schell, Medium Cool, Melina Mercouri, Michael Sheen, movies, music, NFL, Peter Landesman, Peter Ustinov, Pilou Asbæk, remakes, reviews, Robert Forster, Ron Howard, Rudyard Kipling, Scarlett Johansson, science fiction, Sienna Miller, The Beatles, The Jungle Book, Tobias Lindholm, Tom Hiddleston, Topkapi, Will Forte
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