Arrested development has been a very prescient theme in Western media. The man-child, geek, otaku; no matter what you call it we are liv...

Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013). Amour noir as a genre in film has always been popular with Korean audiences. Fro...

Part of MKC's Revenge Week (July 8-14, 2013). “If the national cinema aesthetics of Korea are characterized by the thematic moti...

Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013). It is a popular assertion in drama and literature that revenge is a violent action...

June is a time when kids are let out for summer vacation and film fans can gorge on the latest genre films from Asia in the New York tr...

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...

“ 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...

(by Rex Baylon) There used to be a time when America was known as a manufacturing giant. In agriculture, electronics, and automobile ...

(by Rex Baylon) Although it’s often seen as two different conditions, a fear of loneliness and an awareness of one’s mortality, in re...

As a young cinephile and crime fiction fanatic there was a smorgasbord of noir-tinged goodies for a kid growing up in the Nineties to wa...

(by Rex Baylon) Of all the film cultures in the world that embrace the ideals of romantic love it is only in South Korea where the con...

Welcome to the first MKC Thought Leaders' Corner! We are thrilled to present this new feature where every month we will ask the top exp...

(by Rex Baylon) Although the United States and Japan have a far more illustrious history when it comes to producing animated features,...

(By Rex Baylon) There is no archetype in film that is more hip than the lone hitman. From a laconic Alan Ladd in This Gun For Hire (19...

Part of Rex Baylon's ongoing feature on director Lee Yoon-ki. The expectations placed upon us by our family can be emotionally an...

Part of Rex Baylon's ongoing feature on director Lee Yoon-ki. To speak about love in a contemporary real world setting and ignore...

By Rex Baylon Fractured storylines, unreliable narration and meta-narratives have all become the requisite tools of the trade for fil...