| K-19: The Widowmaker |
K-19: The Widowmaker is loosely based on an actual incident that took place in the Atlantic Ocean in 1961. The cumbrous title refers to the name of the first Soviet ballistic nuclear ...
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| K-PAX |
In K-PAX, Kevin Spacey plays a man who calls himself Prot and may or may not be an extraterrestrial from a planet 1,000 light years away. This is what he claims, at any rate, and it is why ...
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| Kagemusha [Blu-Ray] |
Thus, Kagemusha, a vast historical samurai epic, was a bold step in a new direction for the great Japanese master. It was a film Kurosawa had been trying to make for more than half a decade, ...
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| Kagemusha [DVD] |
Thus, Kagemusha, a vast historical samurai epic, was a bold step in a new direction for the great Japanese master. It was a film Kurosawa had been trying to make for more than half a decade, ...
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| Kalifornia [Blu-Ray] |
Dominic Sena’s Kalifornia is a fascinating film in this regard, as it positions criminal violence as a natural extension of evil and also works as a metafilm that is as much about the ...
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| Kanal [DVD] |
Kanal takes place during the last days of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944 (it was the first film to tackle this subject). For two months, an army of rebels -- the Home Army --fought against the ...
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| Kandahar |
With the recent toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, it may be that the central hope of Afghan women as expressed in writer/director Mohsen Makhmalbaf's Kandahar—that they be ...
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| Keeping the Faith |
If there's one subject that Hollywood is generally bad at tackling, it is religion. The basic law of the Hollywood production machine is to create a product that appeals to the largest common base of ...
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| Kick-Ass |
A brief sketch of what happens in the movie: The nominal hero, who also provides the sardonic voice-over narration, is an ordinary, geeky teenager named Dave Lizewski (Aaron Johnson). While he ...
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| Kicking and Screaming [DVD] |
The film begins at a graduation party and introduces us to all the main characters. Grover (Josh Hamilton) and Jane (Olivia d’Abo), both of whom are literary majors who want to be writers, have ...
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| Kill Bill: Vol. 1 |
For the past few months, the trailer has promised us that, “In the year 2003, Uma Thurman will Kill Bill.” It turns out that won’t be the case because, as is now widely known, Kill ...
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| Kill Bill: Vol. 2 |
That lacking is thoroughly rectified in Kill Bill: Volume 2, which brings a genuinely surprising depth of feeling to the proceedings by filling in the emotional and narrative gaps left ...
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| Killers |
Ken and Spencer meet cute on the French Riviera, where he is on an assignment to blow up a helicopter and kill someone (Who? Who cares?). She thinks he’s just a too-good-to-be-true hunk, and he is ...
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| Kind Hearts and Coronets [DVD] |
The mother of Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price, embodying the very essence of refined urbanity masking a frighteningly sociopathic mind) is banished from her regal family heritage for the grave sin of ...
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| King David [DVD] |
In the spring of 1985, when Bruce Beresford’s ponderous King David flopped as mightily as Goliath taking a rock in the forehead, it had been a long time since anyone had attempted to mount ...
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| King Kong (1976) [DVD] |
Although "King Kong" seemed an unlikely movie to be remade at the time, retrospect shows that the mid-1970s was a perfect
opportunity. High-profile, big-budget projects like "The Poseidon Adventure" ...
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| King Kong (2005) |
Ever since he was a child, Jackson has been enraptured with the story of King Kong (1933), and he even tried to get a version of it made when he first came to Hollywood back in the ...
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| Kingdom of Heaven |
Yet, although not a particularly good movie, Kingdom of Heaven is nothing short of brilliant in the way it dives into the middle of a political-religious morass and still manages to avoid ...
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| Kingpin |
"Kingpin" is a gross, screwball comedy sprinkled with social and cultural satire, then loaded with bathroom humor and a whole heaping of cinema in-jokes and movie spoofs, plus one good sheep joke. If ...
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| Kinsey [DVD] |
But, look again at the 1950s and dig just a little beneath the surface, and you will immediately find the roots that eventually grew into the sexual revolution of the late 1960s. After all, the ...
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| Kissing Jessica Stein [DVD] |
Kissing Jessica Stein is about two women who decide to try lesbianism for completely different reasons. The eponymous Jessica (Jennifer Westfeldt) decides to give it a try because she has all ...
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| Knight and Day |
Cruise plays Roy Miller, one of the U.S. government’s top agents who has either cracked a screw and gone rogue or has discovered that one of his fellow agents (Peter Sarsgaard) is up to no good ...
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| Knight's Tale, A |
Brian Helgeland's A Knight's Tale is enjoyably vacuous summer entertainment, a
medieval saga that is designed through and through to be a fundamental crowd pleaser, from
its simple ...
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| Knocked Up |
Apatow has a soft spot for dorks with big hearts, which he demonstrated in both his television work on Freaks and Geeks and his depiction of the aforementioned virgin of a certain age. From ...
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| Koko: A Talking Gorilla [DVD] |
The central theme of the film, which is stated rather blatantly and clumsily in the final minutes despite having been made clear throughout the previous 75 minutes, is a crucial question to anyone: ...
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| Kung Fu Hustle (Gong fu) |
Kung Fu Hustle takes place in a funky cinematic netherworld, which is ostensibly Shanghai in the 1940s. In the neon-branded city, a vicious band of tuxedoed, axe-wielding dandy mobsters ...
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| Kung Fu Panda [Blu-Ray] |
Having said all that, I will say that casting Jack Black as a roly-poly panda with kung fu delusions of grandeur in Kung Fu Panda was a brilliant move because the quality of his work has a ...
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| Kwaidan [DVD] |
Masaki Kobayashi's Kwaidan is a visually ravishing film that uses dazzling color
palettes and carefully composed widescreen photography to bring the viewer into an
entirely supernatural ...
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