Horror… Movie #86 2022: Umma (2022) 1 Nov 202225 Oct 2022 Yeah, yeah, I know Halloween's over. But bear with me, because I always say Halloween lasts until mid-November. After that, maybe I'll do a few Christmas films, but since Halloween…
Art House… Movie #72 2022: Oldboy (2003) 8 Sep 20225 Sep 2022 Can you believe this movie has been sitting in my DVD collection for 18 months and I only watched it last week? Even though I knew that it is critically…
Cerebral… Movie #216 2021: The Wailing (2016) 6 Nov 20216 Nov 2021 Everyone's obsessed with Squid Game, aren't they? Don't know if you've noticed. I get it: it's pretty good. But something tells me that most of the people who are really…
Horror… Movie #307 2020: #Alive (2020) 14 Nov 202011 Nov 2020 Back to some Halloween-y horror now, and this time we head all the way east to South Korea. As you're probably aware by now, my girlfriend and I are big…
Cerebral… Movie #159 2020: Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002) 19 May 202015 May 2020 Theme of the week is trilogies, apparently. Off the back of finishing the trio of movies in the Cornetto Trilogy, I begin with a new one. Aptly named 'The Vengeance…
Action… Movie #120 2020: The Host (2006) 29 Apr 202027 Apr 2020 Oh, Bong Joon-ho. What can't you do? I am literally just waiting for him to make a musical at this point because is there even another genre he's not ticked…
Drama… Movie #108 2020: Tune In For Love (2019) 23 Apr 202023 Apr 2020 Have you noticed that every single one of the Korean movies I've reviewed here has some ultra depressing theme to it? From killer zombies in Train to Busan, to human…
Drama… Movie #94 2020: Mother (2009) 16 Apr 202014 Apr 2020 Is it even possible not to trawl through Bong Joon-Ho's back catalogue when he just makes so many good movies? Mother - not to be confused with Darren Aronofsky's Mother!…
Action… Movie #86 2020: Okja (2017) 12 Apr 202010 Apr 2020 Once again, I delve into the Bong Joon Ho directory of films and I'll start with just one question: can this dude even make a bad movie? Bong is easily…
Drama… Movie #43 2020: A Taxi Driver (2017) 21 Mar 202026 Mar 2020 All I can do when I think about A Taxi Driver is sigh. For me, it is an almost perfect movie. Sadly, this is a Korean movie that seems to…
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