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Thursday, May 22, 2014

News: A GIRL AT MY DOOR acquired by UK's Peccadillo Pictures

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By Hieu Chau After an impressive showing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, July Jung’s film, A Girl At My Door ( Doheeya ), has b...
Monday, May 19, 2014

Cannes 2014 Review: A HARD DAY Is Easy-to-Love Genre Cinema

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By Pierce Conran If you feel that tough genre fare in Korea has been spinning its wheels of late, you're not alone. While genera...
Sunday, May 18, 2014

Cannes 2014 Review: A GIRL AT MY DOOR Is Korean Cinema At Its Finest

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By Pierce Conran Screening in the Cannes Film Festival's Un Certain Regard section this year is A Girl at My Door , a film tha...
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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Review: Lee Jang-ho's Mysterious and Magnificent THE MAN WITH THREE COFFINS

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By Pierce Conran Though oppressed by Chung Doo-hwan's administration throughout much of the decade, the Korean film industry was ne...
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Monday, May 12, 2014

Review: Strong Scenes Doth Not a Narrative Make in Genre-Hopping COMMITMENT

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By Pierce Conran Following on from this year's Secretly Greatly , another action-drama featuring Korean idols playing young North ...
Sunday, May 11, 2014

Review: Bat-Swinging Gorilla Feature MR GO Is Hit and Miss

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By John A. Riley The premise of Mr Go is that a trained gorilla from China becomes a major league baseball star in South Korea. On...
Monday, March 10, 2014

News: HAN GONG-JU Picks Up Three Awards At Deauville Asian Film Festival

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By Patryk Czekaj There's no stopping Han Gong-ju , a little South Korean indie that's taking the film festival circuit by storm...
Friday, March 7, 2014

News: SNOWPIERCER Alert! Mark Your Calendars for June 27th

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By Pierce Conran Snowpiercer is finally getting a stateside release. The internet is saying June 27th but CJ Entertainment is tellin...
Wednesday, March 5, 2014

News: Jeon Do-yeon And Kim Yoon-seok In Talks for New Lee Yoon-ki Film

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By Rex Baylon For those Korean film fans that have an affinity for quiet settings and slightly damaged female characters, the films of ...
Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Review: HORROR STORIES 2 Slightly Improves Upon Its Predecessor

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By Patryk Czekaj At first glance, Horror Stories 2 looks like a more mature and self-conscious version of the original film. Though ...
Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Review: THE BOOMERANG FAMILY Swings For Your Heart

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By Rex Baylon The concept and role of family has gone through several evolutions in the history of man. At first being just an inst...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Review: Hong Sang-soo's Beautiful But Slightly Strange OUR SUNHI

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By John A. Riley Some critics have characterised Hong Sang-soo's latest film as evidence of a prolific director running out of ste...