By Pierce Conran In a bid to branch out to a wider audience following the tepid critical and commercial response to 2012's The Tas...

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...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 17th Busan International Film Festival. I originally saw Bang Eun-jin’s sophomore film Perfect Num...

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

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 16th Puchon International Film Festival. Comedy is a curious beast even at the best of times. A...

I recently finished reading Keigo Higashino’s The Devotion of Suspect X , a book I picked up by chance in London Luton Airport as I was t...

Sol Kyung-gu was the first Korean actor whose name I remembered and after his extraordinary turn in Peppermint Candy (1999) I was convinced...

(Opening film for KOFFIA 2011) Ryoo Seung-wan is already a popular and respected filmmaker who has pleased fanboys ( The City of Violenc...

I went into Suicide Forecast with little expectation, mostly because I didn't know much about it. I had seen a trailer some months back...