“Hope” is the tale of an unexplainable event happening to an unsuspecting town. Directed by Na Hong-jin (“The Wailing”), returning after…
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Vengeance has been a common theme in pop culture over time. Various artists use this theme of vengeance simply as…
A couple of years ago saw the release of “The Merciless” (“Bulhandang,” original title), a film adaptation of the fictional…
When melding action and horror, the results are often thrilling but hollow affairs that fail to sustain a genuine sense…
A day late and a dollar short, I sat down to view “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho’s award-winning drama about poverty,…
Based on a 1980s Japanese short story, Lee Chang-dong’s “Burning” (2018) starts as a slow-spreading ember but blazes into a…
