By Pierce Conran I’m glad that I’m not a particularly big horror buff, because if I was, Korean cinema would seem like a real letdown...

By John A. Riley A cavalcade of joyless masturbation, even more joyless coition, animal entrails splattered across the tiled floor of a...

Simplicity is in rare supply in Korean cinema these days, so when a film like Koala comes along, it does so as a breath of fresh air. Na...

Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013). As a society Korea has been slow to change despite its economic growth. At times ...

Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013). It’s a funny thing to think you understand something and then experience it first ...

Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013). This is not a new piece but it just seemed too a propos not to include. Just like...

Part of  Connor McMorran's coverage for MKC  of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 19-30, 2013). As much as we may li...

Part of  Connor McMorran's coverage for MKC  of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 19-30, 2013). Though 2012 was an im...

Part of  Connor McMorran's coverage for MKC  of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 19-30, 2013). Perhaps because of his...

Part of Connor McMorran's coverage for MKC of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 19-30, 2013). We often claim that m...

Part of Connor McMorran's coverage for MKC of the Edinburgh International Film Festival (June 19-30, 2013). If there can be one m...

Though I scarcely have the time to read these days there are a few classic works of literature I always go back to. On the one hand the...

The heist film is a unique offshoot of the crime genre. It inhabits a region where the violence is all style, the risks are all calculat...

Korean cinema has proven on many occasions that it can be quite brazen when it comes to generic codes. It can sometimes seem like a kid ...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 15th Udine Far East Film Festival. The most anticipated Korean film of the year, with its dazzling ...

“ No Muse-poet grows conscious of the Muse except by experience of a woman in whom the Goddess is to some degree resident…A Muse-poet f...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 15th Udine Far East Film Festival. (by Rex Baylon) There used to be a time when America was known...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 15th Udine Far East Film Festival. (by Rex Baylon) Of all the film cultures in the world that emb...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 15th Udine Far East Film Festival. Corruption, injustice and terror have always been a sad reality ...

Playing at the 27th Fribourg International Film Festival (March 16-23, 2013) Corruption, injustice and terror have always been a sad...