By Pierce Conran Mission: Possible is a third-rate spy action-comedy starring Kim Young-kwang and Lee Sun-bin as a mismatched duo who both p...

By Pierce Conran When we talk about Korean directors, Lee Han isn’t a name that comes up very often, but over the last 22 years, through eig...

By Pierce Conran “My name is Loh Kiwan.” There is confidence in that statement, but the same thing could not be said about the film for whic...

By Pierce Conran In the smash hit Exhuma , four people dig a hole. Things don't turn out well - digging up corpses can do that - so they...

By Pierce Conran While The Roundup: No Way Out doesn't quite match the raw force of previous instalments Ma Dong-seok (aka Don Lee) pac...

By Pierce Conran Almost 20 years ago I walked into a theatre in Dublin, taking a chance on a strange-looking movie that no one had heard of....

By Pierce Conran Superstition and fatherhood collide in Park Kang's crisply staged and chilling indie horror debut Seire , which had it...

By Pierce Conran Korean horror isn't what it used to be. But it was never any one thing to begin with. For many years it was unfairly...

By Pierce Conran Korean cinema reached its peak in 2020, but, as it turned out, it did so far too early, and the rest of the year… well, I s...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 25th Busan International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran I’ll admit I went into Self-Portrait 2020 with a...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 25th Busan International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran Released three years, ago, the geopolitical actio...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 25th Busan International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran Sometimes all you need is a beat and a rhyme. Bas...