Monthly Archives: July 2002

K*19

Posted on July 31, 2002

Sadly, this movie came highly recommended (although it did not receive good reviews); I cannot recommend it to you, my reader, unless I was recommending it as a sedative. K*19 is the true story (co-produced by National Geographic Films, no … Continue reading →

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Gangster No. 1

Posted on July 27, 2002

Continuing the recent theme of quirky British gangster movies and even plain old gangster movies, we saw the new Malcom McDowell/Paul Bettany flick Gangster No. 1 (the official site pissed me off some with a Flash intro that can’t be … Continue reading →

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Love, Honour and Obey

Posted on July 22, 2002

Sometimes Tivo Sugestions are really brilliant, yeah. Jonny Lee Miller gets lifelong pal Jude Law to bring him into uncle Ray Winstone’s North London mob in Love, Honour and Obey and, fancy that, Jonny is after a bit more of … Continue reading →

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Road to Perdition

Posted on July 19, 2002

Tom Hanks, Paul Newman, and Jude Law go Prohibition era gangsters in Road to Perdition. So many others have acclaimed this as the movie of the year and the best gangster film since Godfather 2 but allow me to disagree. … Continue reading →

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Men in Black II

Posted on July 18, 2002

Oh yeah. K is back and splittin’ wigs! Why MIB2 got such bad reviews I can’t tell you. It’s not Spider-Man or The Bourne Identity, but it isn’t a film where you walk out saying I want those two hours … Continue reading →

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Bourne Identity (Second viewing)

Posted on July 9, 2002

It’s been awhile since I paid money to watch a movie a second time (hello, you knew it was LOTR) and this film is definitely worth it. Seeing it again I got to focus on more of the details and … Continue reading →

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Pauline at the Beach

Posted on July 6, 2002

Eric Rohmer gives us a seaside meditation on love in 1983′s Pauline a la plage. Pauline, 15 and just coming into her femininity, joins her perfectly beautiful cousin Marion (Arielle Dombasle) late in the summer season, when their Normandy beach … Continue reading →

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American Outlaws

Posted on July 5, 2002

A recent take on the Jesse James story. The script, by Rod Taylor, casts the outlaw gang in a very different light. Returning from losing the Civil War to their farms in Missouri, they find that some railroad baron (Harris … Continue reading →

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