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PiFan 2013 - Before Sundown: Sunshine Love (2013) 20 Aug 2013 | 06:54 am
Arrested development has been a very prescient theme in Western media. The man-child, geek, otaku; no matter what you call it we are living in an age where the lines between childhood and adult respon...
Korean Box Office: Hide and Seek is Lord of the Korean Thrillers 19 Aug 2013 | 06:02 am
August continued to be redhot at the Korean box office as no less than four Korean thrillers duked it out for the top spot. In the end it wasn't as close a race as it seemed it was going to be but, ne...
New Korean Films: Impending Contagion in Theaters (2013 Week 33) 18 Aug 2013 | 09:44 am
The Flu (감기) A new disease occurs overnight and causes confusion in all hospitals. It spreads particularly fast because the virus is propagated through the respiratory system and only needs 36 hours...
Review: Slick Epidemic Thriller The Flu Strays Off Course 13 Aug 2013 | 05:59 am
It was only last summer that Korea released its first film featuring a deadly disease when Deranged became a big hit in June. Coming from the same studio (CJ Entertainment), the new epidemic thriller ...
Korean Box Office: Another Huge Weekend for Snowpiercer and The Terror Live 12 Aug 2013 | 06:52 am
Following last weekend's record breaking 4.5 million admissions bonanza, business quelled somewhat over the past frame. However, at 3.6 million, it is still on of the biggest weekends on record and si...
New Korean Films: Indie Films Never Die (2013 Week 32) 12 Aug 2013 | 06:02 am
Oldmen Never Die (죽지않아) Ji-hoon went to the countryside to live with his grandfather to discharge him of farm work, but also to make sure to make a good impression to get a large share of his inheri...
Korean Box Office: Snowpiercer on Track as It Leads Biggest Weekend in Korean Film History 5 Aug 2013 | 06:19 am
This first weekend in August is always a busy time in Korea and though this one was poised to post massive figures, few could have foreseen just how big it would be. Roughly 4.5 million tickets were s...
New Korean Films: Snowpiercer Belongs to the Front (2013 Week 31) 4 Aug 2013 | 07:25 am
Snowpiercer (설국열차) In the near future, while an attempt to stem global warming results in a deadly new ice age. everyone is fighting for one of the few seats on a train destined to contain what’s le...
PiFan 2013: The Terror Live Can't Quite Go the Distance 1 Aug 2013 | 10:27 am
In an era of oversaturation at the cineplex, with countless retreads and follow-ups dominating the marquees, sometimes a gimmick is just the trick to freshen things up. A clever and well-executed hook...
Review: Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer Delivers the Goods 31 Jul 2013 | 09:54 am
Cinema is a medium of motion and if anyone understands this, it appears to be Bong Joon-ho, whose visionary new work is a demented and stunning thrillride. In his first production outside his native S...
