[Starting with this installment, we'll feature some of the most interesting films to grace Korean shores from before the mid 1990s renaissance, which does have its roots (amongst a million other reasons) in late 80s social protest films, the "proto-blockbusters"...

It is, perhaps, unfair to label director Tetsuya Nakashima purely a pop director considering that even his most candy-colored confections draw so much of their power from the dark layers that lurk underneath the gloss.  But after bursting on...

...even if you're Im Sang-Soo, it seems.We reported during the weekend the latest casting news on the remake of 1960 classic 하녀 (The Housemaid) - to make a long story short: yes, Im Sang-Soo is directing, and Jeon Do-Yeon will...

Adam Mason's Luster is a film that we've been tracking in these pages for quite some time now, the director of Broken, The Devil's Chair and Blood River taking a step into some new territory here to create a...

Jamil Dehlavi's Born of Fire (1986) received both a theatrical and home video release in the 1980s, but the film has languished in complete obscurity since that time. This obscurity is undeserved because, as revealed by Mondo Macabro's new DVD...

Ananth Mahadevan's political thriller exposes Westerners to a little known history of a decades long struggle that began in 1947 India, and escalated in '67 with the splitting of their Communist parties, and of the self proclaimed champions of the... More >>

Full marks to Quiet Earth for spotting upcoming Czech thriller The Eye (aka Oko, Oko Ve Zdi and The Eye In The Wall).  Giving a rare lead role to gifted and prolific character actor Karel Roden - far too...

Ohh Ohh... this is more like it.We mentioned last month the change of plans regarding the remake of Kim Ki-Young's 1960 masterpiece 하녀 (The Housemaid), with director Gina Kim opting out, and leaving the choice of who was going to...

You've probably heard of "tea ladies" becoming undercover detectives back in the Joseon dynasty - remember 다모 (Damo) and 형사 Duelist? But how about professional slave hunters? These were usually employed by affluent landlords to collect 공포 (Joseon's equivalent of...

We recently mentioned Zhang Yimou's latest adaptation of Blood Simple, 三枪拍案惊奇 (Amazing Tales: Three Guns). The film stars Sun Honglei and Yan Ni of the lovely 斗牛 (Cow), and the peculiarity here was that one half of the film would...