Korean Cinema
The Post-Colonial World of Bong Joon-Ho
Bong’s films are postcolonial in the sense that they often reflect the Korean context by depicting the United States as a neo-colonial empire; however, his…
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Netflix’s Kill Boksoon and Wicksploitation
Netflix’s most recent South Korean action assassination flick, Kill Boksoon, will inevitably be compared to the John Wick franchise. Indeed, it already has. To quote The Hollywood Reporter, who seem…
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“Glorious” and “Gloomy”: The Drug King and President Park Chung-hee
No film has quite definitively evaluated the Park presidency-dictatorship quite like Woo’s 2018 drug themed crime drama, The Drug King.
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Broker is Kore-eda’s Anti-Manichean Masterpiece
Despite being completely snubbed at the 43rd Blue Dragon Film Awards, South Korea’s more popular film award ceremony, the Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker stood an excellent…
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My Top Ten Films of 2022
Damn, it was a good year for the movies. 2022 was my best year with new releases since at least 2018, if not longer. The…
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Special Delivery is Serviceable but not Special
An intentional riff on Baby Driver staring Park So-dam and Jung Hyeon-jun, two of the most internationally recognizable faces working in Korean cinema thanks to the globally…
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