Young Gun in the Time uses classic Korean cinema genre merging to be at once science fiction, mystery thriller, action, romance and comedy. Though it is low budget through-and-through, that is in fact one of the many charms of this warm, engaging and gently funny film. [Read More]
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Invasion of Alien Bikini (에일리언 비키니, 2010) review: a flawed sci-fi B-movie genre mashup
Sci-fi B-movie pits a chaste vigilante against a sexually assertive alien seeking pregnancy using gender-role reversals to satirise tradition versus modernity. Starting out as genuinely funny and stylishly brutal, Invasion of Alien Bikini is sadly marred by one rather misogynistic, mean-spirited scene and, to my mind, never fully manages to recover its early promise. [Read More]