The Boxer’s Omen, Kuei Chih-hung’s second-to-last film, is absolutely unlike anything you’ve seen before. The director’s Shaw Brothers career is only recently enjoying renewed appreciation after giving us some certified classics across genres...
August 15, 2025
Part of the Channel 11 Saturday Afternoon Movies canon, I Come in Peace (released outside the U.S. as Dark Angel) is the third-best Al Leong Christmas movie (after Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, of course)...
December 29, 2024
Hae-won (Ji Seong-won) works at a bank in Seoul, a hyper-competitive and male-dominated space that leaves her stressed and loath to get involved with others. After ignoring a woman being assaulted...
November 11, 2024
Two thousand and three was a weird year for Korean cinema. Hard on the heels of the paradigm shift of 1999-2001, domestic films managed to overtake Hollywood’s numbers at the box office.
October 30, 2024
When Noroi: The Curse was released in Japan in 2005, it quickly became a word-of-mouth must-see, deemed one of the scariest found-footage films ever made.
March 22, 2024
There is a deep sense of overwhelming sadness that pervades Larry Fessenden’s The Last Winter. Oil workers for North Industries, run by Ed Pollack...
December 30, 2023
It’s both a mystery and a shame that Joel Anderson has directed only one feature, emerging out of nowhere to unleash a film that has slowly gained cult status...
October 31, 2022
When Noroi: The Curse was released in Japan in 2005, it quickly became a word-of-mouth must-see, deemed one of the scariest found-footage films ever made.
March 22, 2024
There is a deep sense of overwhelming sadness that pervades Larry Fessenden’s The Last Winter. Oil workers for North Industries, run by Ed Pollack...
December 30, 2023
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