Between Gangnam Style, BTS, Parasite, and Squid Game, we have some monumentally successful Korean exports, each one putting the small peninsula on the cultural map to an entirely different audience than the last. Squid Game is especially relevant to Montage Pictures’ release of Midnight – the casting of Wi Ha-jun […]
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Monstrum (2018) A Blockbuster Monster Movie, Korean Style (Review)
Squid Game may be leading the charge for wider awareness and appreciation of Korean pop culture, however, there was a series that got there first. That series was Kingdom. Now, Kingdom is important when talking about Acorn Media’s Blu-ray release of Shudder’s Monstrum, as they are both cut from the […]
The Witch Part 1, The Subversion: …and the Girl who bridged two South Korea’s (Review)
The Villainess (2017) Bravura actioner containing two of the best scenes of the past decade (Review)
2017 has been a watershed year for Korean cinema. Park Chan-Wook, Kim Jee-Woon, and Joon Ho-Bong returned with the latter directing one of the largest budgets for a Netflix original. Beyond that upper echelon, cult aficionados Arrow Video have finally engaged with Korean cinema by releasing the acclaimed action film, […]
Bleak Night (2014)Simply put, Korean cinema at its very best (Review)
Korean cinema came out of nowhere in the early 2000′s, blowing up conceptions for what action thrillers can be. They were the perfect antidote to a Hollywood system that was (and still is) becoming increasingly one-dimensional. In turn, giving directors like Park Chan-Wook, Kim Jee-Woon & Bong Joon-Ho the chance […]