Park Chan-Wook is not just showing up to Cannes to judge movies. He is bringing serious heat with him. The acclaimed filmmaker is lining up a stacked cast for his long-gestating Western The Brigands of Rattlecreek. It is one of the most loaded packages heading into the market. Matthew McConaughey,
Park Chan-wook's masterful No Other Choice isn't just one of the year's best films: it's one of the best of our era. Simultaneously funny and heartbreaking and punctuated with desperate violence, it's a stunning indictment of contemporary capitalism as much as it is a complex showcase of the depths
To capture the subtle violences of late-stage capitalism, it turns out it takes a director skilled with the portrayal of violence, Park Chan-wook, in his exceptional new outing No Other Choice. We live in one of the worst, and most transparently idiotic, eras in the history of capitalism. Layoff
Lionsgate Television and renowned filmmaker Park Chan-Wook are teaming up to develop a TV series based on the acclaimed film, Oldboy. This is the first English-language series adaptation of the film. The Korean filmmaker is on a roll as of late, he also has the series The Sympathizer on HBO. Oldboy
Oldboy is turning 20 years old. It might seem like the movie came out yesterday or much longer ago, depending on how many film students you know. Park Chan-Wook's cinematic masterpiece is much more than just the famous hallway hammer scene though. With that 20th anniversary, NEON is re-releasing a
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
We're in the era of liminal spaces, folks. Movies like Skinamarink, Backrooms, and Exit 8 have all proven that audiences, especially younger audiences, can't get enough of them. it Ends brings us really two liminal spaces in one movie. The film tells the story of four friends who are getting
Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger feels like a movie that’s selling itself as something deeper than it ultimately is. There’s an expectation that we’re going to get this grand story about the Gallagher brothers reconciling, putting aside their differences, and coming back together for these
Jaadugar: A Witch in Mongolia shows us the power of wisdom, for good and for evil, in the titular Ep. 10 "Wisdom". With Boraqchin showing Sitara / Fatima that she's both very crafty and utterly ruthless in her pursuit of her goals. However, for all that she is wise, she is by no means omniscient.