The marketing for Prachya Pinkaew’s new film, The Kick, has been pretty steady over the past few months. We’ve seen various stills, posters, and behind the scenes looks at the u... Read more
Watching My Heart Beats, it was clear this was not like any other film I had ever seen. “Juri’s story is about a middle-aged woman who seeks a real heart to fulfill her life in t... Read more
Up next at the NYAFF is the supernatural / sci-fi-ish Korean thriller, Haunters, which marks the directorial debut of Kim Min-Suk, the ingenious screenwriter behind the smash hit The Good, t... Read more
Directed by Hwang Yu Sik and starring a new, up and coming actor, Jeong Seok-won, comes the latest Korean thriller to hit the big screen. It’s called THE BEAST, which is quite a fitti... Read more
The Korean-Thai kickboxing production called The Kick has recently unveiled a new poster for the United States…or the English speaking world in general. The film is directed by everyo... Read more
Last year was the first time I ever attended the NYAFF, actually it was the first time I had ever attended any festival, and let’s just say I picked a great festival to pop that cherry... Read more
Park Chan-Wook, one of my favorite directors and the man behind the legendary Vengeance Trilogy (Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, Lady Vengeance), and his brother Park Chan Kyong have mad... Read more
Yes and Yes! Did you ever think Harvey Keitel would star in an American set, Korean gangster slapstick comedy directed and starring the man behind Dragon Wars, Hyung-rae Shim? Neither... Read more
Magnet Releasing has been a very busy bee as of late. The genre arm of Magnolia pictures has recently acquired not one but two Korean films for an eventual US release. The first is Chaw (or... Read more
NYC ‘Film Comment Selects’ Burke & Hare, Cold Fish, I Saw the Devil and 13 Others
If there is one thing I love more than anything it’s when films that deserved to be shown get shown. And that’s just what Lincoln Center’s Film Comment Magazine’s ‘Fi... Read more