South Korea

The Moon

By Perry Norton | February 2024

David Mitchell once did a comedy sketch about a lazy writer, proud of his latest hospital drama for not getting ‘bogged down’…

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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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Sinister forces are chasing after a missing stash of drugs in director Sang-yong Lee's thriller, The Roundup: No Way Out, written by Kim Min-sung. Don Lee...

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NOW IN THEATERS! I've said this for years, but out of all of Asian cinema, South Korea puts out the most content that feels very American in tone and...

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! In supernatural horror, the demonic/monster attacks occur in the dead of night and with no one around to...

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Writer-director Kim Ha-ra makes his cinematic debut with the intriguingly titled Killed My Wife. Playing out like The Fugitive and Memento—but with a...

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