Lost in the Reel's video review for Decision to Leave Park Chan-Wook, the director of Oldboy, Lady Vengeance and The Handmaiden, is in my opinion, one of the greatest filmmakers working today. While Bong-Joon Ho is the household name from South Korea, due to his groundbreaking work on
Lost in the Reel's video review for Midnight.South Korean entertainment has finally hit the mainstream as of late... but, the country has been making incredible genre fare long before "Parasite" or "Squid Game" hit our shores. From Bong Joon-Ho 's "Memories of Murder" and "Mother", to
Joe Bob Briggs and Darcy the Mail Girl returned for The Last Drive-In: Joe Bob's Halloween House Party, delivering a double feature built around two very different approaches to Halloween horror. This time, the legendary horror host paired Body Bags (1993) with WNUF Halloween Special (2013),
George Carlin told perhaps the greatest joke on football ever told in his 10/11/1975 SNL monologue, where he contrasted the pastoral nature of baseball with the warlike sport of football. To quote one segment among many, “In football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field
The term "crowd pleasing" or "crowd pleaser" has found itself layered with some derogatory undertones among critic circles. Broad appeal seems immediately discounted, as if populist filmmaking is somehow lesser than when compared to auteurs and hidden indie gems. I've always maintained that there
