“Before There Was Vengeance, There Was ‘Joint Security Area'”

Someone said “hey, let’s put a Park Chan-wook film out on Blu-ray,” and I responded with “I will take a copy and write about it.” Continue reading →

“‘Peninsula’: ‘Train To Busan’ Sequel Expands The Scale & Emotional Stakes Of The Zombie Franchise”

Y’know, a zombie invasion at this point in the year would just be par for the course, and also maybe preferable to reality. Continue reading →

Review: The Wailing, 2016, dir. Na Hong-jin

It’s a quantifiable fact that I love the cinema of South Korea, thanks largely to the work of Park Chan-wook, whose magnum opus Oldboy remains one of my favorite movies of all time (of all time). But a decade and change after getting into Korean film, I have come to see Park as a gateway filmmaker, … Continue reading →