K-19: The Widowmaker It’s quite a wonder to look back at the pathetic nature of the Soviet Union during the “Cold War” and the lame, desperate way they tried to keep up with America in both the space race and the arms race, with incompetent engineering that resulted in many deaths and the lack of […]
Kick-Ass Somewhere in the mixture of comic book films, there has been a mini-trend of doing such films in a style that belied what would happen if superheroes existed in our own harsh, real world? Certainly The Dark Knight accomplished that incredibly well, and with an established character to boot, and also there’s M. Night […]
Kick Ass 2 Sometimes a sequel can come out that can stop a potentially great franchise stone cold dead, not necessarily because it’s a BAD movie per se, but more because it’s failure resulted from not remembering the essential spirit that had made the original movie so great. That appears to be what happened here […]
The Kid Oh, the plight of being a child movie star: fame, fortune, attention and (in most cases) the worst sexual abuse imaginable. The roadmap to this entertainment phenomenon came in the form of the first (and biggest) child movie star of the silent era in young Jackie Coogan, a lad who suffered the sad […]
Kill Bill Volume 1 When it (finally) came time for Quentin Tarantino to make only the fourth film of his storied and already legendary career, with him obviously in the driver’s seat to make whatever kind of film that he wanted, the still young neophyte chose to take on the Asian market with a homage […]
Kill Bill Volume 2 When Quentin Tarantino came out with Volume 1 in this particular saga, many thought that he had abandoned the high level of maturity in his writing for something possibly far more entertaining: A high octane anime cartoon come to life, overflowing with blood, guts, and the body parts of various bad […]
Killer Klowns From Outer Space Many times, you might find a filmmaker armed with a low budget who intentionally sets out to make a “cult midnight movie”, and usually falls flat on their face due to a lack of skill and churns out a pretty shitty result. However, then there is the Chiodo Brothers, who […]
Killer’s Delight This product of the 70s low-budget exploitation craze, about a serial killer murdering young female hitchhikers, has got to be considered one of the worst of the lot. For starters, you have James Luisi (best known as James Garner’s partner on the Rockford Files) achieving some kind of milestone for playing probably the […]
King Of New York Perhaps no actor other than Christopher Walken can convey more pain and sorrow in a single closeup, so many inner feelings of turmoil. Unfortunately those things alone are not substantive enough to properly carry a film or a performance, as it is in Abel Ferrera’s cult crime film (which went on […]