By Pierce Conran The run of corruption thrillers that have proven so popular at the Korean box office of late shows no signs of abating...

By Chris Horn The romance genre is always teetering on the edge of a dangerous precipice: an original plot and strong chemistry betw...

By Pierce Conran Period dramas are all the rage in Korea at the moment, but while some have been setting records at the box offi...

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

Part of MKC's coverage of the 15th Udine Far East Film Festival. From  North By Northwest  (1959) all the way to  Tinker Sailor So...

From North By Northwest (1959) all the way to Tinker Sailor Soldier Spy (2011), spy thrillers have long captured the imagination of fi...

My third review of 1997’s important Korean gangster films is actually on the first one that was released (February) during the year.  L...

Though not as slick as later works like Shiri (1999) and Joint Security Area (2000), No. 3 was a presage of things to come in Korean c...

Once again I’ve come head to head with a genre-bending Korean film and as usual I feel it necessary to comment on this fact. Villain and Wid...