With all the excitement about the launch of the adaptation of Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko on Apple TV, and Apple’s Oscar win, something that might once have been big news – the appearance of a free-to-view Park Chan-wook short film on YouTube – has not really had much airtime. Back in 2011, brothers Park Chan-wook … [Read More]
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Svaha: The Sixth Finger (사바하, 2019) review: faith, evil and ambiguity in Korean religious horror
Overall, Svaha is an often nicely creepy horror/thriller which successfully raises intelligent, thought-provoking questions about religion as a whole. However, the hugely expositional nature of so much of the narrative doesn’t particularly do the film any favours even if it doesn’t prevent it from being enjoyable and entertaining as a whole… [Read More]
Bleak Night (파수꾼, 2011) review: fractured friendships, shared guilt
Told through flashbacks and investigation, Bleak Night examines the collapse of teenage friendships after a boy’s suicide. A multi-layered, multi-themed dissection of masculine adolescence, it delves into issues of peer pressure, bullying, guilt, blame and culpability within a brooding, yet gripping, tale of the intricacies of relationships. [Read More]