Starring: Gong Hyo-Jin as Tae Gong-Sil, So Ji-Sub as Joo Joong-Won, Seo In-Guk as Kang Woo, and Kim Yoo-Ri as Tae Yi-Ryung In 2013, the infamous Hong sisters shocked and delighted K-Drama fans when their co-written hit series, Master’s Sun, aired on SBS. The story centers on Tae Gong-Sil (meaning “sun” in Korean), a young…
It’s about 4:30 is the morning as I’m finishing this story. It’s not the next Path to Nowhere, but I think you’ll enjoy it a lot. I just started writing and ran with it. So, HERE IT IS! (Again, in case you guys didn’t get the memo, you have to CLICK the “HERE IT IS” bit to…
Directed by Henry Alex Rubin Written by Andrew Stern Starring Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Frank Grillo, Alexander Skarsgard, Paula Patton, Andrea Riseborough, Max Theriot, Jonah Bobo, Colin Ford and Michael Nyquvst R, 115 minutes The pervasive reaches of everyday technological appliances have been a relatively new phenomenon into our lives. What kind of effects can…
After the cultural phenomenon that was The Sixth Sense garnered over $600 million in worldwide box office revenue and a plethora of Academy Award nominations (Best Picture, Best Director, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay, to name a few), M. Night Shyamalan found himself in a position to make practically anything he wanted. So,…
I like The Village. There, I said it. I like it despite the fact it’s become quite the punching bag over the years given its statement on the trajectory of M. Night Shyamalan’s career as the movie that began his downward descent. It has its problems, sure, but I find a lot to like in…
Written & Directed by Shane Carruth Starring Amy Seimetz, Shane Carruth, Andrew Sensenig, and Thiago Martins Not Rated, 96 minutes Upstream Color is a uniquely magnificent and sometimes confounding experience. A film that makes us accept what we are seeing with little explanation as to what is going on. It trusts audience enough to figure…
Written and Directed by Abel Ferrara Starring Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Natasha Lyonne, Paul Hipp, Anita Pallenberg, Pat Kiernan and Paz de la Huerta R, 84 minutes *This film was released domestically in 2012 but I just saw it recently so I thought I would share my views on this mostly unseen film. When the…
The ceremony commemorating the best achievements cinema had to offer last year has come and gone. Awards aren’t everything, but it seems to me a grave injustice has occurred in not recognizing what I believe to be the greatest achievement in cinema of last year. I am referring to the globetrotting, decade spanning six story-lined…
