KISS KISS, BANG BANG


Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang starts off with a bang, or rather, a scream, the blood-curdling scream of a young girl being sawn in half. It takes that bang and keeps going, screeching across the screen in a flash and leaving little left behind. It is, in other words, teasingly fun and at times breathtaking, but really lacking in substance. The film centers around Harry (Downey, Jr.) and Gay Parry (Kilmer) as they embark upon uncovering a murder scheme. Harry, you see, has turned up in LA for a screen test after fleeing a robbery and landing in an audition room – and playing the part well. A little too well. Once in LA, he hooks with Parry, a real PI, for “realism training” for... READ MORE >>>

KINKY BOOTS


Kinky Boots, based loosely on a true story, is the cheeky new British comedy about a floundering shoe factory in the British Midlands that is saved from economic ruin by the most unlikely of niche markets.... drag queens. The film opens with Charlie Price, played by Joel Edgerton ( King Arthur, Open Window), inheriting his father's shoe factory in the hick town of Northamptonshire. But of course, Charlie was all set to leave Northamptonshire with his fiancé for posh London town at the time of his dad's death and becomes torn as to what should be done with the Price Shoe Factory. Coupled with the fact that the factory is in financial dire straits and that the town's diminutive economy is tied to the well... READ MORE >>>

KING KONG


Why King Kong? Why now? I asked myself these questions as I sat watching this 3 hour film, bored to death by the film's gratuitous CGI effects and fight scenes that drag on and on. Surely reasons must exist as to why this film got the green light. But I can't figure them out. I know Peter Jackson is coming straight off the success of the LoTR trilogy and has been fascinated with the original King Kong for almost his entire life. Still, this adaptation brings nothing new to the story, nothing phenomenal in effects, nothing but tedium, in fact. And yet, here it is, taking up theatrical space. Something cultural must be going on now to make this film seem viable, but what... READ MORE >>>

THE KEEPER: THE LEGEND OF OMAR KHAYYAM


Filmed entirely on location in Uzbekistan, the legendary 11th century story of Omar Khayyam (Bruno Lastra) and Hassan Sabbah (Christopher Simpson) unfolds through old-fashioned story telling. As the young 21st century Kamran (Adam Echahly) comes to the gripping realization that his dying brother will not live to complete the narration of their historical ancestor, Omar Khayyam, he sets forth on a faithful journey. This journey will unlock the conclusion of a riveting plot left as incomplete as his older brother’s life. Kamran’s mission takes him from his American home all the way across the seas to his dying grandfather in Iran who holds the only key that can unlock the final chapter to the ancient story of Omar and Hassan. Omar and his best... READ MORE >>>

KAMIKAZE GIRLS


This is probably going to end up being my favorite film of the year, this bizarrely beautiful Kamikaze Girls. Funny and innovative, this film moves at a quick pace yet keeps throwing in plot twists and funky fictions that tantalize and please at every moment. The film opens with a scooter/truck crash, Momoko (Kyoko Fukada) flying over a bunch of cabbages and starting a voice-over monologue that introduces us to her and her desire to be living in 18th Century Versailles, the Rococo period to be exact, where hedonism, sex, and embroidery played first, second and third fiddles in that order. She is, in fact, isolated from all those around her. She tells her mother, for example, to just go do what she wants... READ MORE >>>