What first turned me on to Korean film was the seemingly complete disinterest in Hollywood tropes. What I didn’t know at the time was that prior to the mid 90s Korean cinemas showed almost exclusively Hollywood films. After nearly a decade of little to no domestic film success, Korean directors decided to reinvent their national [...]

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Watching The Happening brought me back to an experience I remember well from my childhood. Walking into a local video joint, feverish with the excitement of cinematic possibility, and rushing from aisle to aisle, I often would come across something promising and new from a star I was familiar with. Perhaps the cover displayed Jackie [...]

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More and more I’ve found myself drawn into the spectacle of the big budget summer film. Sometimes the promise of big budget hi-jinks is too much even for this fanatic of the obscure. And after all the bad reviews I’ve heard and read, I want to step up and say, Hancock is not the dud [...]

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