Film Archive: K

K-19 (2002)

Director: Kathryn Bigelow

Cast: Harrison Ford, Liam Neeson, Peter Sarsgaard, Christian Camargo, Joss Ackland

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

K-pax (2001)

Director: Iain Softley

Cast: Kevin Spacey, Jeff Bridges, Mary McCormack, Alfre Woodard

• Review by Todd R. Ramlow

Kai Doh Maru

Director: Kanji Wakabayashi

Cast: voices of): Kathleen McInerney, Bruce Winant, Flavio Romeo, Dan Publisi, Jay Snyder

• DVD review by Chris Elliot

Kandahar (2001)

Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cast: Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Sadou Teymouri

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kangaroo Jack (2003)

Director: David McNally

Cast: Jerry O'Connell, Anthony Anderson, Estella Warren, Christopher Walken, Dyan Cannon, Marton Csokas

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kaspar Hauser (1993)

Director: Peter Sehr

Cast: André Eisermann, Jeremy Clyde, Katharina Thalbach

• DVD review by Matthew A. Stern

Kate & Leopold (2001)

Director: James Mangold

Cast: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Natasha Lyonne, Breckin Meyer

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kebab Connection (2005)

Director: Sinan Akus / Anno Saul

Cast: Emmanuel Bettencourt, Numan Acar, Nora Tschirner, Hasan Ali Mete, Kida Ramadan, Denis Moschitto

• DVD review by Shaun Huston

Kedma (2002)

Director: Amos Gitai

Cast: Andrei Kashkar, Helene Yaralova, Yussef Abu Warda, Moni Moshonov

• Review by Erich Kuersten

Keep Your Right Up! (soigne Ta Droite!) (DVD 2002)

Director: Jean-Luc Godard

Cast: Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Villeret, Catherine Ringer, Fred Chichin

• Review by Matt Langdon

Keep the River on Your Right: a Modern Cannibal Tale (2001)

Director: Laurie Gwen Shapiro and David Shapiro

Cast: Tobias Schneebaum, Norman Mailer, Rick Whitaker

• Review by Todd R. Ramlow

The Keep (1983)

Director: Michael Mann

Cast: Scott Glenn Gabriel Byrne Jürgen Prochnow Ian McKellen Alberta Watson

• Feature: Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

Keeping Mum (2005)

Director: Niall Johnson

Cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Rowan Atkinson, Patrick Swayze

• Review by Michael Buening

Keeping the Faith (2000)

Director: Edward Norton

Cast: Edward Norton, Jenna Elfman, Ben Stiller, Anne Bancroft, Milos Forman, Brian George,

• Review by Ben Varkentine
• Review by Josh Jones

Kenny Rogers: Legend of the Gambler (1980, 1983, 1987)

Director: Dick Lowry

Cast: Kenny Rogers, Bruce Boxleitner, Linda Evans, Jeffrey Jones

• DVD review by Bryan Byun

Khadak (2006)

Director: Peter Brosens, Jessica Hope Woodworth

Cast: Batzul Khayankhyarvaa, Tsetsegee Byamba, Banzar Damchaa

• DVD review by Jesse McLean

  Featured Article

  

  Whether in the frozen tundra or the desolate ennui of an industrial village, spirits may take flight but there is no doubt that the laws of gravity apply.

   

Kicking & Screaming (2005)

Director: Jesse Dylan

Cast: Will Ferrell, Robert Duvall, Mike Ditka, Kate Walsh

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kicking and Screaming: Criterion Collection (1995)

Director: Noah Baumbach

Cast: Josh Hamilton, Olivia d'Abo, Eric Stoltz, Chris Eigeman, Parker Posey, Carlos Jacott, Jason Wiles, Cara Buono

• DVD review by Chris Barsanti

  Featured Article

  

  Behind all the banter and postgraduate trauma, Kicking and Screaming is a love story, only it's a fairly sour one that unfolds in reverse.

   

The Kid Stays in the Picture (2002)

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kids Wb Presents Pokémon 3: the Movie (2001)

Director: Kunihiko Yuyama (Japanese production), Michael Haigney (U.S. production)

Cast: (voices) Veronica Taylor, Eric Stuart, Rachael Lillis, Addie Blaustein, Ikue Ootani

• Review by Todd R. Ramlow

Kikujiro (2000)

Director: Takeshi Kitano

Cast: Beat Takeshi, Yusuke Sekiguchi, Kayoko Kishimoto, Kazuko Yoshiyuki

• Review by Elena Razlogova

Kill Bill Vol. 1 (2003)

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Cast: Uma Thurman, Vivica A. Fox, Lucy Liu, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, David Carradine, Michael Parks, Sonny Chiba, Chiaki Kuriyama, Julie Dreyfus

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004)

Director: Quentin Tarantino

Cast: Uma Thurman, David Carradine, Daryl Hannah, Michael Madsen, Gordon Liu Jia-hui, Michael Parks, Samuel L. Jackson

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs
• DVD review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kill the Moonlight (1994)

Director: Steven Hanft

Cast: Thomas Hendrix, Beata Henrichs, Ralston Regan

• DVD review by Michael Buening

Killer of Sheep (1977)

Director: Charles Burnett

Cast: Henry G. Sanders, Kaycee Moore, Charles Bracy, Angela Burnett, Eugene Cherry, and Jack Drummond

• DVD review by Chris Robé

  Featured Article

  

  Hopefully the appearance of Killer of Sheep just the marks beginning of the due recognition that the UCLA school of black filmmakers deserves as a whole.

   

The Killers (1946)

Director: Robert Siodmak

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene

• DVD review by David Sanjek

The Killing of John Lennon (2006)

Director: Andrew Piddington

Cast: Jonas Ball, Thomas A. McMahon, Robert C. Kirk, Krisha Fairchild

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Killzone Double Feature (2007)

• DVD review by Marc Calderaro

King Arthur (2004)

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Cast: Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley, Hugh Dancy, Ray Winstone, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen Dillane, Joel Edgerton

• Review by Jesse Hassenger

King Arthur: Extended Unrated Director's Cut (2004)

Director: Antoine Fuqua

Cast: Clive Owen, Ioan Gruffudd, Keira Knightley, Hugh Dancy, Ray Winstone, Stellan Skarsgård, Stephen Dillane, Joel Edgerton

• DVD review by Cynthia Fuchs

King Corn (2007)

Director: Aaron Woolf

Cast: Ian Cheney, Curtis Ellis

• DVD review by Andrew Gilstrap
• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

King Kong (2005)

Director: Peter Jackson

Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Jamie Bell, Thomas Kretschmann, Evan Parke, Colin Hanks, John Sumner, Andy Serkis

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)

Director: Seth Gordon

Cast: Steve Wiebe, Billy Mitchell, Walter Day, Nicole Wiebe, Steve Sanders, Robert Mruczek, Brian Kuh

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs
• News: He's the 'King of Kong,' and a real-life movie star
• DVD review by Mike Schiller

King's Ransom (2005)

Director: Jeff Byrd

Cast: Anthony Anderson, Donald Faison, Regina Hall, Jay Mohr, Loretta Devine, Kellita Smith, Nicole Parker, Jackie Burroughs, Leila Arcieri, Brooke D'Orsay, Charlie Murphy

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

The King (2005)

Director: James Marsh

Cast: Gael García Bernal, William Hurt, Pell James, Paul Dano, Laura Harring

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kingdom Come (2001)

Director: Doug McHenry

Cast: LL Cool J, Vivica A. Fox, Whoopi Goldberg, Loretta Devine, Jada Pinkett Smith, Anthony Anderson, Toni Braxton, Cedric the Entertainer, Darius McCrary, Tamala Jones, Masala

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kingdom of Heaven (2005)

Director: Ridley Scott

Cast: Orlando Bloom, Eva Green, Jeremy Irons, Ghassan Massoud, Brendan Gleeson, Marton Csokas

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

The Kingdom (2007)

Director: Peter Berg

Cast: Jamie Foxx, Ashraf Barhom, Jennifer Garner, Jason Bateman, Chris Cooper, Ali Suliman, Jeremy Piven, Danny Huston

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs
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Kinky Boots (2006)

Director: Julian Jarrold

Cast: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Joel Edgerton, Sarah-Jane Potts, Jemima Rooper, Linda Bassett

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kinsey (2004)

Director: Bill Condon

Cast: Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Chris O'Donnell, Peter Sarsgaard, Timothy Hutton, John Lithgow, Tim Curry, Oliver Platt, Dylan Baker

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs
• DVD review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kiss Exposed (1987)

Director: Claude Borenzweig

Cast: as themselves): Mark Blankfield, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Vinnie Vincent, Mark St. John, Eric Carr, Bruce Kulick

• DVD review by Michael Christopher

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang (2005)

Director: Shane Black

Cast: Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan, Corbin Bernsen

• Review by Jesse Hassenger

Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

Director: Chris Nahon

Cast: Jet Li, Bridget Fonda, Tcheky Karyo

• Review by Jun Kim

Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985)

Director: Hector Babenco

Cast: William Hurt Raúl Juliá Sonia Braga José Lewgoy

• Feature: Gone and Not Forgotten: The PopMatters DVD Wish List

Kissing Jessica Stein (2002)

Director: Charles Herman-Wurmfeld

Cast: Jennifer Westfeldt, Heather Juergensen, Tovah Feldshuh, Scott Cohen, Jackie Hoffman

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008)

Director: Patricia Rozema

Cast: Abigail Breslin, Julia Ormand, Chris O'Donnell, Joan Cusack, Stanley Tucci, Willow Smith, Max Thieriot

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

The Kite Runner (2007)

Director: Marc Forster

Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Homayon Ershadi, Zekeria Ebrahimi, Ahmad Khan Mahmidzada, Shaun Toub, Nabi Tanha, Ali Dinesh, Saïd Taghmaoui

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs
• DVD review by Elizabeth Cho

  PopMatters Pick

  

  This is a sensitive, kind adaptation of a well-loved book, and the DVD has well-crafted features that help extend the message of what is essential to human existence: hope.

   

Klimt (2006)

Director: Raúl Ruiz

Cast: John Malkovich, Veronica Ferres

• DVD review by Mehera Bonner

A Knight's Tale (2001)

Director: Brian Helgeland

Cast: Heath Ledger, Mark Addy, Rufus Sewell, Paul Bettany, Shannyn Sossamon, Alan Tudyk, Laura Fraser

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Knocked Up (2007)

Director: Judd Apatow

Cast: Katherine Heigl, Seth Rogen, Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann, Jay Baruchel

• News: TV geek Seth Rogen becomes a movie star
• News: With Judd Apatow's films and TV shows, familiarity breeds hilarity
• Feature: Monkey Business (Part 2: June)
• Review by Cynthia Fuchs
• DVD review by Andrew Gilstrap
• News: Oh, baby! 2007 gave birth to a brood of pregnancy comedies

Koma (2004)

Director: Lo Chi Leung

Cast: Sin-je Lee, Karena Lam, Andy Hui, Kai Chi Liu, Annie Man, Ho-Yin Wong, Roy Chow

• DVD review by Nikki Tranter

Krays - Geordie Connection (2004)

Director: Liam Galvin

Cast: Steve Wraith, Ronald Kray, Reginald Kray, Charlie Kray

• DVD review by Tobias Peterson

Krzysztof Kieslowski's Three Colors (Blue/White/Red) (1994)

Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski

Cast: Juliette Binoche, Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant

• Feature: Part 4: Challenging Convention

Kung Fu Hustle (2004)

Director: Stephen Chow

Cast: Stephen Chow, Lam Tze Chung, Yuen Wah, Yuen Qiu, Chan Kwok Kwan, Tin Kai Man

• Review by Cynthia Fuchs
• DVD review by Cynthia Fuchs
• DVD review by Andrew Gilstrap

Kung Fu Panda (2008)

Director: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson

Cast: Jack Black Jackie Chan Dustin Hoffman Angelina Jolie Lucy Liu Seth Rogen David Cross

• Feature: The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008
• Review by Cynthia Fuchs

Kurt Cobain: About a Son (2006)

Director: A.J. Schnack

Cast: Kurt Cobain

• Kurt Cobain