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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 (142): “The Films of December 2023”

Posted on January 1, 2024 by KPKeelan

. > All hail December, the time of year most of the really great stuff hits America’s big silver screens (O the joy!), and tiny streaming devices (O, the horror!). Just check out how many of these titles came out in … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 20 Days in Mariupol, A Christmas Carol, A.O. Scott, Aardman Studios, Aaron Copland, Aaron Sorkin, ABC TV, action, actresses, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Adir Miller, Adolph Green, adventure, aggression, Alasdair Gray, Albert Brooks: Defending My Life, Alexander Payne, allegory, Amanda Plummer, American history, American politics, American Symphony, amnesia, Andy Richter, animation, Anne Baxter, Anne Hathaway, Annette Bening, anthologies, Anthony Hopkins, anti-Semitism, Anwar Sadat, Armageddon Time, artists, arts, attachments, Audra McDonald, Banks Repeta, Barack Obama, Bayard Rustin, Bella Ramsey, Ben Gazzara, Ben Kingsley, Betty Comden, Bill Irwin, biography, biopics, blaxploitation, Bob Balaban, Bob Costas, Bradley Cooper, Branford Marsalis, Brian de Palma, British cinema, Britt Ekland, brutality, Bullworth, bullying, cancer, Carey Mulligan, Carol For Another Christmas, Celine Song, Charles Laughton, Charles Melton, Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget, Chris Rock, Christian Bale, Christine Baranski, cinema, civil rights, Colman Domingo, comedians, comedies, comedy, coming of age, con artists, conductors, conscience, conspiracies, Coretta Scott King, creativity, criticism, Cuba, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dave Bautista, David Alan Grier, David Cross, David Griffin, David Zucker, death, Dennis Quaid, determination, Diana Nyad, diplomacy, Disney animation, documentaries, documentary, Dominic Sessa, Don Cheadle, Doris Kearns Goodwin, drama, Drew Barrymore, Duncan Jones, dystopia, ecology, Emma Stone, endurance swimming, entertainment, environment, environmental disasters, equality, Eric Bana, escape, Ethan Hawke, Eva Marie Saint, exploitation, explorers, fame, families, fantasy, farce, Farley Granger, Felicia Montealegre, feminism, filmmakers, filmmaking, films, Florence Pugh, Florida, folk heroes, Francis Ford Coppola, Frankenstein, fraud, Fred Allen, friendship, gender roles, genius, George Hamilton, George Kennedy, George Lucas, Golda, Golda Meir, Greta Lee, grief, grifters, Halle Berry, Harrison Ford, Hayao Miyazaki, Hayley Atwell, HBO, Helen Mirren, Henry Hathaway, Henry King, Henry Kissinger, Henry Koster, history, Holly Hunter, homosexuality, horror, Howard Hawks, humor, I Love You Again, ideas, Imelda Staunton, Indians, injustice, insanity, invasion, irony, isolationism, Israel, Israeli cinema, Israeli history, J. B. Smoove, J.J. Abrams, Jack Warden, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Gray, James Le Gros, Jamie Foxx, Japanese cinema, Jaylin Webb, Jeff Goldblum, Jeffery Katzenberg, Jeffrey Wright, Jennifer Coolidge, Jeremy Strong, Jerrod Carmichael, Jewish Americans, Jodie Foster, John Batiste, John Boyega, John Ford, John Ford: The Man Who Invented America, John Hillerman, John Lewis, John Magaro, John Negulescu, John Steinbeck, John Williams, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Judd Hirsch, Julia Roberts, Julianne Moore, Kelly Reichardt, Kevin Bacon, Kevin Keelan, Kiefer Sutherland, Kiernan Shipka, kinship, Korean culture, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Kristen Bell, Lance Crouther, Laurie Metcalf, Lawrence Kasdan, László Kovács, leadership, Leave the World Behind, Leonard Bernstein, Leonardo DiCaprio, Leslie Nielsen, Liam Neeson, liberation, Liev Schreiber, life, loneliness, Louis C.K., love, Lucy Liu, Madeline Kahn, Maestro, Mahalia Jackson, Mahershala Ali, Marilyn Monroe, Mark Hamill, Mark Ruffalo, marriage, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Scorsese, Mary Kay Letourneau, May December, Medgar Evers, Michele Obama, Michelle Monaghan, Michelle Williams, Miranda Richardson, Mission: Impossible Dead Reckoning Part One, movies, Mstyslav Chernov, murder, music, musicians, Myrna Loy, mysteries, mystery, Natalie Portman, native Americans, Netflix, Nyad, O. Henry’s Full House, O.J. Simpson, ocean, Oliver Platt, opinion, Oprah Winfrey, Oscar Levant, Paper Moon, parables, parody, Past Lives, Pat Hingle, Paul Giamatti, Paul Sorvino, people, personalities, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Coyote, Peter Sellers, political satire, Pom Klementieff, Poor Things, Pootie Tang, Priscilla Presley, protest, psychological thriller, publishing, race, racism, Ralph Fiennes, Ramy Youssef, Randy Quaid, Rebecca Ferguson, relationships, reviews, Rhys Ifans, Richard Dreyfuss, Richard Widmark, Rob Reiner, Robert Goulet, Robert Pattinson, Robert Shaw, Robert Vaughn, Robert Zemeckis, Rod Serling, romance, Russia, Rustin, Ryan O'Neal, Sally Field, Sam Fell, Sarah Silverman, satire, scams, sci-fi, science fiction, screwball comedies, Sean Astin, self-actualization, sequels, sex, sex abuse, sexuality, Showing Up, Simon Pegg, slice of life, Source Code, Spielberg, spoofs, sports, steampunk, stereotypes, Sterling Hayden, Steve Lawrence, Steven Spielberg biography, Strange World, Studio Ghibli, Suleika Jaouad, supernatural, surrealism, survival, Tatum O'Neal, Teo Yoo, terrorism, Teyonah Parris, Thandiwe Newton, The Blackcoat’s Daughter, The Boy and the Heron, the great depression, The Holdovers, The Monkey House, The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear, They Cloned Tyrone, thriller, thrillers, Todd Haynes, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Tom Stoppard, Tony Kushner, Ukraine, Vanessa Kirby, Vilmos Zsigmond, Ving Rhames, violence, W. S. Van Dyke, Wanda Sykes, war, war crimes, Warren Beatty, westerns, Willem Dafoe, William Powell, William Sydney Porter, writers, Yom Kippur War | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (131): “The Films of January 2023”

Posted on February 11, 2023 by KPKeelan

. > End of the year: 7 films from 2022- the year that was. Always happens, as I gear up for awards season. Enjoy! (All films are rated on a 5-star basis and must be over a decade old to get … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged #MeToo, 50 First Dates, abuse, action, Adam Driver, Adam McKay, Adam Sandler, airmen, Alice Braga, aliens, Anya Taylor-Joy, Arthur Godfrey, arts, Austin Butler, Barbra Stanwyck, Baz Luhrmann, biography, Bloodsport, Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Chris Hemsworth, Chris Pratt, Christian Bale, cinema, Colonel Tom Parker, comedies, comedy, comic books, corruption, crime, criticism, Dave Bautista, DC Comics, death, Dick Martin, disasters, Dom DeLuise, Don Cheadle, Doris Day, drama, Drew Barrymore, Ed Harris, elitism, Elvis, Elvis Presley, entertainment, escape, espionage, fame, family, fantasy, farce, fear, fighter pilots, film noir, films, Flix Pix, Frank Morgan, Frankie Avalon, genius, Greta Gerwig, Groot, Harley Quinn, haute cuisine, horror, hubris, Humphrey Bogart, ideas, Idris Elba, James Stewart, Janet McTeer, Jennifer Connelly, John Cena, John Leguizamo, John McGiver, Jon Hamm, Jordan Peele, Kevin Keelan, King Shark, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, love, machismo, Margot Robbie, Marvel Studios, memory, Miles Teller, militarism, military, movies, murder, music, musicians, mysteries, Natalie Portman, Nazi Germany, Netflix, Nicholas Hoult, Noah Baumbach, Nope, nuclear disaster, opinion, Panic in the Year Zero, Paul Lynde, Peacemaker, Pete Davidson, Peter Capaldi, power, privilege, Ralph Fiennes, Ray Milland, relationships, reviews, Rob Schneider, Robert Stack, Robert Young, Rod Taylor, romance, Russell Crowe, San Fernando Valley, satire, sci-fi, science fiction, Sean Astin, sequels, sexual harassment, snobbery, success, superheroes, surrealism, survival, Sylvester Stallone, Taika Waititi Korg, Tár, Tessa Thompson, The Glass Bottom Boat, The Menu, The Mortal Storm, The Suicide Squad, The Two Mrs. Carrolls, Thor: Love and Thunder, thrillers, Todd Field, Tom Cruise, Tom Hanks, Top Gun Maverick, tragedy, Val Kilmer, Vin Diesel, Viola Davis, violence, wealth, White Noise, Will Farrell, World War II, Zeus | Leave a comment

FLIX PIX (1017): “TOP GUN: MAVERICK Pushes Demographic Buttons”

Posted on February 7, 2023 by KPKeelan

. TOP GUN: MAVERICK (directed by Joseph Kosinski, 2022) *** (out of 5) . > Yawn. Okay. Another giant, macho action flick. Thanks for that. . Not sure we really needed a by-the-numbers sequel to a not very good, very dated … Continue reading →

Posted in Flix Pix | Tagged action, airmen, arts, cinema, criticism, drama, Ed Harris, entertainment, fighter pilots, films, Flix Pix, ideas, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Joseph Kosinski, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, machismo, Miles Teller, militarism, military, movies, opinion, reviews, sequels, Tom Cruise, Top Gun Maverick, Val Kilmer | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (84): The Films of February 2019

Posted on July 8, 2021 by KPKeelan

. All hail February! Don’t blink, or you’ll miss it… (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles in purple have been expanded for Flix Pix columns.) … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged 007, A Walk in the Woods, A.O. Scott, acting, action, adolescence, adventure, Angela Bassett, animation, Ant-Man and the Wasp, Appalachian Trail, archival footage, art, art theft, Arthur Penn, bank robbers, Ben Foster, Bill Bryson, Billy Bob Thornton, biography, Bo Burnham, Brad Bird, buddy films, Burt Lancaster, capers, Casey Affleck, Charles Grodin, cinema, classics, climate, cold war, comedy, coming of age, Communism, courtroom drama, crime, David Mamet, Dax Shepard, death, Debra Granik, Derek Flint, Disney, documentaries, drama, editing, Eighth Grade, Elsie Fisher, Emma Thompson, England, families, fantasy, fathers and daughters, fathers and sons, film criticism, film restoration, film technology, filmmaking, films, Forrest Tucker, French resistance, gangs, gender exploitation, growing up, Guy Pearce, Henry Cavill, hiking, historical drama, history, hormones, Iron Curtain, Jake Gyllenhaal, James Bond, James Coburn, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, Jeff Bridges, Jessica Lange, Joanna Kulig, Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, John Frankenheimer, John Guillermin, John Huston, Jonathan Pryce, Kevin Keelan, King Kong, kitsch, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Leave No Trace, Lee J. Cobb, lovers, Margot Robbie, Mary of Scotland, Mary Queen of Scots, masterworks, Mission Impossible Fallout, movies, murder, My Abandonment, Natascha McElhone, nature, Nazis, Netflix, Nick Nolte, opinion, Orson Welles, Our Man Flint, parenting, Paul Rudd, Paul Scofield, Paweł Pawlikowski, period pieces, Peter Bogdanovich, Peter Jackson, Pixar, Polish cinema, politics, power, PTSD, Queen Elizabeth, racism, relationships, religion, remakes, reviews, Robert De Niro, Robert Downey Jr., Robert Duvall, Robert Redford, romance, Ronin, royalty, Rutger Hauer, Saoirse Ronan, satire, science fiction, Sean Bean, sex, sexism, Simon Pegg, Sissy Spacek, Sorry to Bother You, special effects, spies, spoilers, spoofs, Stellan Skarsgård, stuntwork, superheroes, survivalists, Telly Savalas, The Incredibles 2, The Judge, The Old Man & the Gun, The Other Side of the Wind, The Sisters Brothers, The Train, The Young Savages, They Shall Not Grow Old, They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead, Thomasin McKenzie, ticket prices, Tom Cruise, Tomasz Kot, tragedy, Vera Farmiga, Vincent D’Onofrio, Ving Rhames, violence, war, westerns, World War I, World War II, youth | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (74): The Films of April 2018

Posted on June 28, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Hello fellow cinephiles! Greetings, fellow cultural acolytes! Let’s get busy. (All ratings are on a 5 star scale. Note that a classic only becomes a classic after a decade or more.) (Titles in purple have been expanded for Flix Pix … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged Aaron Sorkin, Alison Brie, American Made, animation, art, Barry Seal, Bill Murray, biography, Bob Balaban, Bryan Cranston, Chris O’Dowd, CIA, cinema, comedy, crime, Dave Franco, documentaries, Domhnall Gleeson, Doug Liman, drugs, Edward Norton, F. Murray Abraham, Ferguson Missouri, film, film criticism, filmmaking, Frances McDormand, gambling, Greta Gerwig, Harvey Keitel, Idris Elba, Isle of Dogs, Jacki Weaver, James Franco, Jeff Goldblum, Jeremy Irons, Jessica Chastain, Jonas Jonasson, Justice League, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Loving Vincent, Michael Brown, Molly’s Game, movies, My Life Inside The Room, opinion, reviews, Saoirse Ronan, Scarlett Johansson, Seth Rogan, superheroes, Swedish cinema, The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out On The Bill And Disappeared, The Disaster Artist, The Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, Tom Cruise, Tommy Wiseau, Vincent Van Gogh, Wes Anderson, Whose Streets?, Yoko Ono | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (51): The Films of April 2016

Posted on June 5, 2021 by KPKeelan

. Not seeing nearly as many movies as I used to. They are just beyond my budget. In my area, they keep “upgrading” the movie theaters to attract more filmgoers. Trouble is, they keep “upgrading” the ticket prices to the … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged acting, action, animation, Anna Kendrick, arts, Bill Condon, Captain America, Chadwick Boseman, Chi-Raq, cinema, comedies, Dr. Dre, drama, Emily Blunt, fantasy, film criticism, films, Get On Up, hip-hop, humor, Ian McKellen, Ice Cube, Into the Woods, Johnny Depp, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Lucy, Lysistrata, Macbeth, Marion Cotillard, Marvel Studios, Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Minions, Mission Impossible, movies, Mr. Holmes, musicals, N.W.A., opinion, rap, reviews, Rogue Nation, Samuel L. Jackson, Scarlett Johansson, science fiction, Shakespeare, Sherlock Holmes, Simon Pegg, Snoop Dogg, social criticism, Spike Lee, Stephen Sondheim, Straight Outta Compton, Suge Knight, superheroes, The James Brown Story, Tom Cruise, Winter Soldier | Leave a comment

KPK on the CINEMA (35): The Films of NOVEMBER 2014

Posted on May 20, 2021 by KPKeelan

. > NOVEMBER 2014: 28 films this go-round, from all 6 “THIN MAN” films through Charlie Chaplin’s final film. Along the way: modern science fiction, political intrigue, old Mel Brooks, new X-Men, classic horror, fevered romance, high seas adventure, hip … Continue reading →

Posted in KPK on the CINEMA | Tagged A Most Wanted Man, adventure, After the Thin Man, Alejandro Iñárritu, Another Thin Man, arts, Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Birdman, Casey Affleck, Charlie Chaplin, Christian Bale, Christopher Lloyd, Christopher Nolan, cinema, Claire Booth, classics, cliches, Days of Future Past, Dead and Loving It, Debbie Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke, Divorce American Style, Edge of Tomorrow, Edward Norton, Elizabeth Olsen, Emily Blunt, Emma Stone, Emma Thompson, Ender's Game, film criticism, films, Forest Whitaker, Fred Zinnemann, Harrison Ford, Harvey Corman, How to Draw a Bunny, Ian McKellen, ideas, Interstellar, It Came From Outer Space, James MacAvoy, Jim Jarmusch, John Hawkes, John Hurt, John le Carre, John Malkovich, John Wayne, Julia Roberts, Kevin Keelan, KPK, KPKeelan, KPKworld, Leslie Neilson, Limelight, Long John Silver, Marlon Brando, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Mary Reilly, Matthew McConaughey, Maureen O’Sullivan, Meet the Feebles, Mel Brooks, mental illness, Michael Caine, Michael Fassbender, Michael Keaton, Mike Nichols, movies, Myrna Loy, Naomi Watts, Nick and Nora Charles, Norman Lear, Only Lovers Left Alive, opinion, Out of the Furnace, Patrick Stewart, Peter Jackson, Philip Seymour Hoffman, PTSD, Ray Bradbury, Ray Johnson, revenge, reviews, Richard Carlson, Robert Montgomery, Robert Newton, romance, Sam Shepard, Shadow of the Thin Man, soldiers, Song of the Thin Man, Stephen Frears, Steven Weber, The Black Swan, The Fly, The Men, The Thin Man, The Thin Man Goes Home, Tilda Swinton, Tom Cruise, Tom Hiddleston, United Artists, Viola Davis, Wake of the Red Witch, William Powell, wit, World War II, X-Men, Zach Galifianakis, Zoe Saldana | 2 Comments

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

KPK on the CINEMA (142): “The Films of December 2023”

KPK on the CINEMA (131): “The Films of January 2023”

FLIX PIX (1017): “TOP GUN: MAVERICK Pushes Demographic Buttons”

KPK on the CINEMA (84): The Films of February 2019

KPK on the CINEMA (74): The Films of April 2018

KPK on the CINEMA (35): The Films of NOVEMBER 2014

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