Paid-members only Korean Cinema The Fertilizer Home Part of the 30th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
Korean Cinema Bias Wrecker: MAMAMOO: My Con the Movie & Stray Kids: The dominATE Experience A better propaganda film about power than Melania.
Toronto International Film Festival 2025 Notes from the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival Reviews on Sacrifice, A Useful Ghost, and Project Y
Korean Cinema Dark Nuns The theology of Dark Nuns stands apart from the usually strong Christological theologies that the exorcism genre has stood on for decades.
Korean Cinema The Old Woman with the Knife For all their effort to hide age in the action, the filmmakers take the opposite approach to the symbolism.
Reviews REVIEW: Harbin (2024) dir. Woo Min-ho The opening foreshadows the scale of the task ahead: to assassinate their colonizer and the Prime Minister of Japan, Itō Hirobumi
12:12: The Day Interview: 12.12: The Day Director Kim Sung Soo "This is how history continues its ongoing dialogue with the present and reflects why I continue to make films based on history."
Essays The 28th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival BIFAN’s embrace of sexuality is one example of its willingness to reach for something extra.
Reviews 12.12: The Day — Kim Seong-su [NYAFF ’24 Review] “In the end, they swallowed up the nation as a whole.”
Reviews Review: Road to Boston (2023) dir. Kang Je-kyu Road to Boston tells the story of marathoner Suh Yun-bok (Im Si-wan) and his senior coach turned surprise teammate Sohn Kee-chung (Ha Jung-woo) as they compete in the 1947 Boston International Marathon.
Reviews The Roundup: Punishment — Heo Myeong-haeng The copaganda finally outruns the action choreography.
Reviews Review: In Our Day (2023) and In Water (2023) In Our Day Few filmmakers can pop out feature films like bunnies in a petting zoo. Hong Sang-soo is one of the few. Keeping up with his release schedule might as well be a hobby, and even then a new title can come like a thief in the night.
Essays The 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PӦFF) The only International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) A-list film festival in Northern Europe or the Baltic, Estonia’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival just wrapped up its 27th year and celebrated by breaking all major attendance records from the festival’s history, as PӦFF director Tiina Lokk-
Reviews Badland Hunters — Heo Myeong-haeng Ma Dong-seok does it again in Netflix’s Badland Hunters. Like most of his notable roles post-Train to Busan (2016), he plays a haymaking Byronic hero with a pained past, this time around as the star of the very loose sequel to last year’s Concrete Utopia. The
Reviews Concrete Utopia (2023) dir. Um Tae-hwa At its most political, Concrete Utopia finds the fascist project essentially anti-life and destined for a systemic collapse.
Boston Hassle Interview: Concrete Utopia director Um Tae-hwa "This movie deals with the disaster, but the disaster itself is not the focus."
Reviews Kim Seong-sik Debuts with Dr. Cheon and the Lost Talisman I may be basic, but when it comes to Korean cinema, I’m a sucker for both Park Chan-wook and Bong Joon-ho. (On the actor front you can add Gong Yoo and Kim Tae-ri, but that’s a different story.) Kim Seong-sik, the first-time director
Reviews A Normal Family and Normality In a movie titled A Normal Family, one thing can be certain: the family is obligated to abnormality. Hur Jin-ho’s newest film, an adaptation of the Dutch novel The Dinner by Herman Koch, attests to this. The source material’s title explains why the film’s early marketing
Reviews The Basic Predicament of The Moon Many of the best survival-oriented movies work like a line of dominoes: their best bits catalyze one another, the action of one is impossible without the drama of another. In Uncut Gems (2019), a lightly disguised survival film, each and every action by Howard (Adam Sandler) is a reaction
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