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News: Festivals, Podcasts, DVDs and Big Breasted Zombies..

Posted on September 2, 2010 | No Comments
Hello! It’s been a while so I thought it was time for a quick news update on the site. In case you’ve missed them the recently posted reviews on the site include the stylish The Sword With No Name, the weird and fairly wonderful My...
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It’s Friday the 13th – Ten Horror films for the hell of it…

Posted on August 13, 2010 | 1 Comment
Well that’s a fairly self explanatory title – today is Friday the 13th so that’s as good an excuse as I need to list ten Korean horror films with some brief reasoning why they’re worth a look. They’re not even necessarily the best ten Korean...
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Review: Secret Reunion (Jang Hoon / 2010)

Posted on July 18, 2010 | No Comments
An attempt to capture a North Korean spy by the National Intelligence Service (N.I.S.) goes badly and in the aftermath two men are dismissed by their agencies. The N.I.S. expel Agent Lee, an obsessive man happy to ignore protocol in order to do his job....
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Review: Dasepo Naughty Girls (Lee Je-yong / 2006)

Posted on June 17, 2010 | No Comments
Both students and teachers at the No Use High School are quite unconventional when it comes to their sexual habits – which are liberal to say the least – and DASEPO NAUGHTY GIRLS follows several students struggling with teen-issues within this highly charged environment …...
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Review: Breathless (2009 / Yang Ik-joon)

Posted on June 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
Sang-hoon is a debt collector with an uncontrollable temper and a foul mouth whose daily routine involves beating up anyone who can’t repay the money they owe. A chance incident with a young schoolgirl results in a violent confrontation, but Sang-hoon also finds himself making...
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Review: The Good, The Bad, The Weird (Kim Ji-woon / 2008)

Posted on June 1, 2010 | No Comments
A heist is arranged by cold-bloodied-killer-with-a-reputation-to-match Chang-yi to steal a map that is being transported by train but before he can get his hands on the document it is stolen by a thief by the name of Tae-goon. During all of the commotion of the...
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Review: Chaw (Shin Jung-won / 2009)

Posted on February 7, 2010 | No Comments
A peaceful rural village becomes terrorised when the remains of several missing people are found. The local investigators – who are joined by two city policemen in the investigation – think that there is a wild animal on the lose and try to work out...
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Review: Someone Behind You (Oh Ki-hwan / 2007)

Posted on January 13, 2010 | No Comments
High school student Ga-in witnesses the brutal murder of an Aunt while being repeatedly told by a strange school friend to ‘trust no-one, not even yourself’. Her strange dreams and paranioa aren’t exactly helped when the people nearest and dearest to her start trying to...
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News: Shutting up shop for xmas

Posted on December 16, 2009 | No Comments
So I’ve decided to shut up shop for the year a little early for xmas due to illness – I don’t want to be posting bad quality reviews now! In the new year the site will be back even stronger with stacks of reviews and...
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Article: ‘That’s not my name…’ – From Korean to English

Posted on December 12, 2009 | 1 Comment
I think it’s safe to say that one of the problems that newcomers to Korean cinema face is dealing with Korean names. For most of us average westerners, Korean names at first appear very complicated – difficult to read, difficult to say and difficult to...
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