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Film Review: Concrete Utopia

Concrete Utopia from Director Um Tae-hwa has been selected as Korea’s entry for Best International Feature Film at the 2024 Oscars, and with good reason. Inspired by a Webtoon titled ‘Cheerful Outcast’, Director Um uses this disaster thriller as a means of…

Film Review: Day Off

The premise for the film is simple: It focuses on A-Rui (Lu Hsiao-fen) who has been running a barbershop for forty years. One day, A-Rui receives a phone call from the family of a regular client who moved to the countryside following…

Film Review: Road to Boston

The premise behind Road to Boston was the desire to re-tell and pay homage to the inspiring real-life story of 3 national athletes: The trio forming two runners Suh Yun-bok (Im Si-wan) and Nam Sung-yong (Bae Sung-woo) and coach Sohn Kee-chung (Ha…

Film Review: Killing Romance

Killing Romance from Director Lee Won-suk is a riot. More specifically, it is a ‘Wes Anderson’ inspired 106 minutes of a story which gets weirder and more unpredictable as it unfolds. Straight from the start Killing Romance is bizarre and chaotic but…

Film Review: The Boys

The Boys is the latest feature film from ‘activist filmmaker’ and cinematic visionary Chung Ji-young. Through this film, Chung continues to push boundaries and tackle corruption within society, or in this case within the ranks of the Police. Blending fact with fiction,…