South Korea

Green Night

By Bobby LePire | October 2024

Green Night is writer-director Shuai Han’s follow-up to her acclaimed debut Summer Blur. Whereas that film is an intimate coming-of-age tale, this…

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Green Night is writer-director Shuai Han's follow-up to her acclaimed debut Summer Blur. Whereas that film is an intimate coming-of-age tale, this is a...

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Crime may be universal, but it's fascinating to see how crime is approached in other countries. The way crime is investigated in South Korea is very...

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Tae-gon Kim, Yong-hwa Kim, and Joo-Suk Park all collaborated on the screenplay for Project Silence. Tae-gon Kim directs this sci-fi horror tale set in...

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NOW ON SHUDDER! Vengeance from beyond the grave comes forth in Jang Jae-hyun's supernatural horror film, Exhuma. Lee Hwa-rim (Kim Go-eun) is a spiritual...

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David Mitchell once did a comedy sketch about a lazy writer, proud of his latest hospital drama for not getting 'bogged down' by the jargon of healthcare....

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I suppose it is the very nature of a web of intrigue that it can be hard to follow. So it is with Kim Jee-woon's Cobweb, an intricate black comedy set in...

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After overcoming our fear of monsters under the bed, it turns out we need to watch out for the bed itself in South Korean writer-director Syeyoung Park's...

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2023 REVIEW! There's something unsettling about writer-director Hur Jin-ho's A Normal Family. It gets under the skin...

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Writer-director Kang Park makes his feature-length debut with the South Korean horror film Seire. The movie revolves around the superstitious belief of...

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For his feature debut film, Hong Sung-eun wrote, directed, and edited the South Korean drama Aloners. When we meet the main character, Jina (Gong...

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