Posts Tagged ‘Korean cinema’
Broker Movie Review: The Korean Shoplifters
As he did in Shoplifters, writer/director Hirokazu Kore-eda once again challenges us to embrace characters that our instincts tell us to shun.
Read MoreJoint Security Area Blu-ray Review: Friendship and Murder in the DMZ
Park Chan-wook’s breakout film gets the Arrow Video treatment.
Read MoreHouse of Hummingbird Movie Review: A Coming-of-Age Story with Peculiar Wings
Kim Bora’s directorial debut soars to terrific heights.
Read MoreParasite Blu-ray Review: Remarkable and Timely
A modern masterpiece of wicked social commentary and unexpected pathos.
Read MoreWoman Is the Future of Man / Tale of Cinema Blu-ray Review: Best Left in the Arthouse
Double feature from filmmaker Hong Sangsoo presents two equally bewildering tales.
Read MoreThe Villainess Blu-ray Review: Villainous Melodrama Mars Mind-Blowing Action
Korean import mixes hyperkinetic action scenes with insufferable melodrama and confusing flashbacks.
Read MoreThe Handmaiden DVD Review: Period Thriller, Twisty and Twisted
Chan-wook Park’s sumptuous period piece is masterfully mounted, compelling, erotic, but is more compelling than involving.
Read MoreThe Handmaiden DVD Review: A Twisting, Turning Korean Thriller
South Korean director Park Chan-wook takes a break from his usual shocking ultra violence and makes a magnificently beautiful period drama.
Read MoreWoochi: The Demon Slayer Blu-ray Review: Rebranding Gone Awry
Nice whimsical fantasy that trips on its shoelaces a bit trying to figure out what it wants to be.
Read MoreThirst (2009) Movie Review: Korean Gothic Horror And Blood Disease
Korean Gothic horror underpinned by psychological drama and literary Naturalism.
Read MoreSecret Pleasures DVD Box Set Review: Asian Grab Bag
A sampler of unrelated and unspectacular but offbeat Asian films.
Read MoreSecret Sunshine Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review: A Secret No More
Actress Do-Yeon Jeon delivers a powerhouse performance in director Chang-Dong Lee’s moving drama.
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