I Come in Peace
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) and may have the most explosions of any Christmas movie ever.
Bedevilled
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.
A Tale of Two Sisters
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.
The Last Winter
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 (the perfectly cast Ron Perlman), join forces with an environmental investigation team led by James Hoffman (James Le Gros) to study the viability of a new drilling site deep in the Alaskan wilderness.
Noroi: The Curse
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.
Lake Mungo
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, only to pretty much disappear from the movie world.