Tag Archives: the Civil War

FLIX PIX (1299): “Raymond Massey is ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS”

Posted on June 20, 2024 by KPKeelan

ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS (directed by John Cromwell, 1940) *** (out of 5) . > Just say the storied name “Abraham Lincoln” and it conjures up all kinds of mental pictures. . The tall bearded man in the stovepipe hat has become … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged Abe Lincoln in Illinois, American history, arts, biography, cinema, criticism, drama, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, ideas, John Cromwell, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, legends, movies, opinion, politics, Raymond Massey, reviews, romance, Ruth Gordon, the Civil War | Leave a comment

QuickPix (38): “Great WESTERNS For You to Savor, Vol. 2”

Posted on January 23, 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 art, Ben Johnson, Burt Lancaster, change, cinema, classics, Claudia Cardinale, corruption, criticism, entertainment, films, fugitives, Gary Cooper, ideas, Jack Palance, James Arness, John Ford, justice, Kevin Keelan, Kirk Douglas, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lee Marvin, Lonely Are the Brave, Man With the Gun, movies, opinion, QuickPix, reviews, Richard Brooks, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan, Springfield Rifle, the Civil War, The Professionals, violence, Wagon Master, Walter Matthew, westerns, Woody Strode | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1082): “The Mighty John Ford Directs THE HORSE SOLDIERS”

Posted on June 25, 2023 by KPKeelan

THE HORSE SOLDIERS (directed by John Ford, 1959) ***** (out of 5) . > A John Ford horse opera starring John Wayne and William Holden? Say no more. I am so there! . This one takes place during the Civil War. … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged arts, cinema, Constance Towers, criticism, entertainment, films, Flix Pix, historical drama, ideas, John Ford, John Wayne, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, opinion, reviews, the Civil War, The Horse Soldiers, William Holden | 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

FLIX PIX (502): “Sofia Coppola Revisits THE BEGUILED”

Posted on April 27, 2022 by KPKeelan

THE BEGUILED (directed by Sofia Coppola, 2017) **** (out of 5) . > Hey! That Sofia Coppola sure can make movies! . THE VIRGIN SUICIDES, THE BLING RING, MARIE ANTOINETTE, the mighty LOST IN TRANSLATION… It’s dumb to be surprised when … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged art, cinema, criticism, drama, Elle Fanning, films, ideas, Kevin Keelan, Kirsten Dunst, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, movies, Nicole Kidman, opinion, reviews, Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled, the Civil War | 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 (69): The Films of NOVEMBER 2017

Posted on June 23, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Well, that was an enjoyable month’s worth of movies. Look at all the 4-and-a-half star films! Fab. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles in purple … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Akira Kurosawa, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Alfred Hitchcock, American Honey, Amy Adams, animal rescue, animation, anime, art, Billy Bob Thornton, Blackmail, Blade Runner 2049, Bolivia, Charles Laughton, Ciarán Hinds, cinema, Claude Rains, Colin Farrell, comedies, crime, criminals, Cyril Ritchard, Daniel Brühl, Danny Boyle, Daphne De Maurier, Denis Villeneuve, documentaries, drama, Drunken Angel, Edward James Olmos, elections, Elijah Wood, Elle Fanning, epics, Evo Morales, Ewan McGregor, feudalism, films, Frances McDormand, gangsters, grifters, Harrison Ford, Hayao Miyazaki, heroin addiction, history, humor, Humphrey Bogart, Hurricane Katrina, I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK, Jamaica Inn, James Carville, Japanese cinema, Jared Leto, Jessica Chastain, Kevin Keelan, Kirsten Dunst, Korean cinema, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Louisiana, Martin McDonough, Maureen O’Hara, Melanie Lynskey, melodrama, mental health, metaphor, Michael Curtiz, Mine, Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day, movies, Nazis, New Orleans, Nicole Kidman, noir, opinion, Our Brand is Crisis, Park Chan-wook, Passage to Marseille, Peter Lorre, Peter Straughan, pets, Poland, political campaigns, politics, Princess Mononoke, reviews, Ridley Scott, Robert Newton, Ryan Gosling, Sam Rockwell, Sandra Bullock, Santa Sangre, Sasha Lane, science fiction, Sean Young, sequels, Shia LaBeouf, Sofia Coppola, Studio Ghibli, surrealism, Sydney Greenstreet, symbolism, T2 Trainspotting, Takashi Shimura, The Beguiled, the Civil War, The Zookeeper’s Wife, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri, thrillers, Toshiro Mifune, violence, Woody Harrelson, World War II, Yakuza, youth | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: the Civil War

FLIX PIX (1299): “Raymond Massey is ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS”

QuickPix (38): “Great WESTERNS For You to Savor, Vol. 2”

FLIX PIX (1082): “The Mighty John Ford Directs THE HORSE SOLDIERS”

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

FLIX PIX (502): “Sofia Coppola Revisits THE BEGUILED”

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

KPK on the CINEMA (69): The Films of NOVEMBER 2017

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