RUFUS DE RHAM

lives in rural Connecticut across from spooky old ruins in the woods. He is part of Boondocks Film Society, a group that programs unique pop-up film events in Litchfield Hills, the Hudson Valley, and the Berkshires. He has programmed for Film at Lincoln Center (Scary Movies, My First Film Fest) and Subway Cinema (New York Asian Film Festival, Old School Kung Fu Fest). He has written extensively about Asian cinema, most recently co-editing an issue of NANG magazine dedicated to Archival Imaginaries in Asia.

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

Katie Small

is a writer, photographer, videographer, and cinephile living in Portland, Oregon.