Park Chan-Wook

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Sympathy for Lady Vengeance — movie review

by Chris   ⋅   March 5, 2006   ⋅   Comment now

Everything seems to be receiving the trilogy treatment these days. As long as a movie is somewhat successful you can bet on at least two more installments. Take a look at Fast and the Furious and X-men, both with third installments due out this year. Truly amazing trilogies are few and far between, and I’m [...]

Best Films of 2005

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   January 5, 2006   ⋅   Comments [2]

I don’t know what it was, but 2005 was a pathetic year at the boxoffice. So much crap was shoveled into the cineplexes we couldn’t even come up with a top 10 best of the year. Even most critically acclaimed films were still derivative of such tried and true formulas that nothing truly new was [...]

Oldboy — movie review

by Kris   ⋅   October 9, 2005   ⋅   Comments [6]

Is this really happening? Like an old memory based in both surreal and logical demise, Oldboy reminds us of how unrealistic and unreliable reality can be. Held for fifteen years in a secret “holding cell hotel” by an anonymous kidnapper, main character Daesu Oh must (Shiri’s Min-sik Choi) sift through his old [...]

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