Keeping the Faith |
The Kid |
Kissing a Fool |
A Knight's Tale |
Knock Off |
Krippendorf's Tribe |
Kundun |
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist |
Kurt & Courtney
Keeping the Faith (2000)
(PG-13)
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Two friends grow up to become a priest and a rabbi. A female friend from eighth grade suddenly comes to town, and the two both fall in love with her. The movie has some great jokes about relationships and religion, and the characters are very believable which makes the movie work even better. The acting and directing are great, helping to make the film fun to watch. Overall, very entertaining.
Links:
Official Studio Site
Film.com's Review
Radio Free's Review
The Kid (2000)
(PG)
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Bruce Willis plays a 40 year old man who thinks he has everything he wants until his 8 year old self gets pulled into current times. The movie is fairly touchy-feely, letting the kid teach the adult the obvious lessons about not just wasting your life chasing money and that it's o.k. to cry. It manages to do this without overdoing the sappyness of the plot, however, and the actors are able to make the characters entertaining enough that the movie works fairly well.
Links:
Official Studio Site
Film.com's Review
Roger Ebert's Review
Kissing a Fool (1998)
(R)
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A comedy/drama about two long time best friends, Max and Jay. Jay sets Max up with a woman he's met (Samantha), and they
fall in love. After they get engaged, Max gets insecure about himself, and asks Jay to test Samantha to see if she will sleep with someone else even though she's engaged to him. This leads to a lot of strangle situations between the three of them. The characters seem surprisingly real to me, and the performances were good. The climax seemed a little forced, but it wasn't too bad. Over all, a decent movie.
Links:
Official Studio Site
Radio Free's Review
Roger Ebert's Review
A Knight's Tale (2001)
(PG-13)
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Set in medieval times, this movie is about a young man who takes over his master's life when when he dies, entering himself into jousting tournaments under his former master's name. He then manages to woo a princess, while eventually finally getting to face off against the nearly invincible bad guy with a chip on his shoulder. Although the movie's been done before and requires a big leap for anyone not swept away by star Heath Ledger's looks, it manages to be a good time for people who can sit back and enjoy the ride. The film is definitely made for teens, but is not beyond the enjoyment of other who can still get into exciting jousting events taking place over loud rock and roll music (think Queen and AC/DC). If this isn't your style, than it's safe to skip the movie.
Links:
Official Studio Site
Film.com's Review
Roger Ebert's Review
Knock Off (1998)
(R)
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This movie goes further into the area of style over substance than any movie I've seen in a long time. The film is made like a Japanese action film and tries very hard to be fun, and while they had all the right elements, it still needs a little work. It is about a man working for a company that is making "knock off" imitations of other company's products and selling them cheaper. This just serves as a way to get a lot of people running around and fighting each other. The movie jumped around too much and through me off what was happening a lot, but while it was only a moderately successful try at mindless fun, it'll make a great Mystery Science Theatre 3000 candidate.
Links:
Official Studio Site
Krippendorf's Tribe (1998)
(PG-13)
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A very dry comedy staring Richard Dreyfuss as a university professor given grant money to find a "lost tribe" of Indians, that he isn't able to locate. In order not to have charges pressed for his spending habits of the grant money, he creates a tribe from his imagination, and films his family dressed as indians in order to show film footage of the tribe. The jokes are funny and the characters are good, but the movie never really got me emotionally involved in the story.
Links:
Official Studio Site
Radio Free's Review
Roger Ebert's Review
Kundun (1997)
(PG-13)
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An interesting and well made movie, but it would have been better as re-enactment footage for a documentary. The movie
shows the life of the 14th Dalai Lama as he grew up and was faced with the overthrow of the Tibet government. The movie
was very well staged, but didn't get the audience involved in the story. Very good if you're interested in the subject, but every
one else will be bored.
Links:
MARTIN SCORSESE: Movie And The Man presents Kundun
Film.com's review
Roger Ebert's Review
Kung Pow: Enter the Fist (2002)
(PG-13)
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In this attempt at making fun of old martial arts movie, "The Chosen One", who's parents were killed by the bad guy Master Pain, vows to get even with him. Just to try to make it interesting, the actors were inserted into an actual 70s martial arts movie called "Savage Killers" and the plot is derived, in part, from this movie. What has been created is mostly just boring, dull attempts at humor and parodies of recent martial arts movies which just make the older film seem more dated than humorous. Overall, not worth anyone's time.
Links:
Official Studio Site
San Francisco Chronicle's Review
Kurt & Courtney (1998)
(R)
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A documentary about Kurt Cobain, who was the lead singer of the band Nirvana before being found dead. This movie tries to figure out the circumstances of his death and answer why he died, but doesn't offer very much facts about it. What it does offer is a look at the people that Kurt knew and did stuff with, including his wife Courtney Love. I thought the movie was very well made in a funny, tabloid sort of way, but I would have liked to have known a lot more about the facts surrounding Kurt's death. Overall, a good film if you want to know more about Kurt Cobain's life.
Links:
People Weekly's Review
Roger Ebert's Review
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