Time to Hunt ★★★
Though South Korea has really come into its own as an economic and cultural superpower to be reckoned with inContinue Reading
Author: Eugene Kang
The Half of It ★★★
The famous story of Cyrano de Bergerac is about an intelligent and fearsomely talented man who is unable to professContinue Reading
The Subversion of South Korean Society in The Pollen of Flowers
Class struggle is present in almost every society, but it seems that Korean culture is especially obsessed with this theme.Continue Reading
The Painter and the Thief (documentary) ★★★
When Barbora Kysilkova had two of her paintings stolen from the Galleri Nobel in Oslo in 2015, she never expectedContinue Reading
Spaceship Earth (documentary) ★★★
Biosphere 2 was the first, very public attempt to create a self-sufficient ecosystem in an enclosed space. Taking up onlyContinue Reading
Bacurau ★★★½
Much of Kleber Mendonca Filho’s newest film Bacurau cleaves very close to its genre roots – specifically the Western. BacurauContinue Reading
Hava, Maryam, Ayesha ★★★
Stories from women’s voices are few and far between from Afghanistan and other conservative Muslim countries. Sahraa Karimi is theContinue Reading
Letting Go of the Past in My Sassy Girl
If you were Korean or around Koreans at the turn of the century, My Sassy Girl would have been partContinue Reading
For Sama ★★★
In the genre of war films, rarely do we get a work that truly shows the effects of war uponContinue Reading
Redemption Through Platonic Love in A New Leaf
In A New Leaf, Walter Matthau plays Henry Graham, a playboy with a profligate spending habit that bankrupts him andContinue Reading
