By Pierce Conran Just two weeks after V.I.P. , Korean cinemas are getting another twist on the serial killer story with Won Shin-yeon...

By Pierce Conran It looks like Snowpiercer isn't the only Bong Joon-ho film getting the remake treatment . I don't normally co...

By Pierce Conran I've thought about doing a list like this for some time but frankly found the task quite daunting. Having seen s...

A lot of reviews this week and many of them for a trio of action/war film which are currently making the rounds in North America, either in ...

A number of great reviews this week including a pair from refresh_daemon over at Init_Scenes on two old Yoo Hyeon-mok films  RECENT RE...

“The recovery of the self remains as the objective in these films, but … the subjectivity reconstituted or denied in the end is the man’s al...

Bong Joon-ho is a filmmaker who is meticulous and knows what he is doing at all times, his intelligence and acute understanding of the needs...

"Yet this absence of the mother had hardly nullified her fascinating and spectral presence, which is structured around the male subject...

Bong Joon-ho is well known for his deft handling of generic conventions; he not only understands and respects their limitations but know h...

"Either physically handicapped or psychologically traumatized (sometimes both), many of the characters emblematized the period's f...

"Korea's emasculated and traumatic men pour out onto the road. The characters are visually encased with overwhelming landscapes a...

1 Introduction  “There is a sight of horror that invokes the loss of… …memory and sanity.” Kim Kyung-hyun, one of the foremost schola...