Deconstructing the machinery of cinema.
In 1937 an occupying Japanese regime, in an effort to solidify its control over Korea, banned the teaching of Korean language in all schools. For children going through school at that time, it meant a lifetime of illiteracy. In the new documentary Granny Poetry Club, a group of women in the late eighties boldly return to ...
A man wakes up in a dark, coffin-like space. He can barely move, but move he must if he wants to survive, because he is bleeding from an abdominal wound. As he slowly works his way through this cramped, claustrophobic labyrinth, he encounters a mysterious woman and struggles to piece together the fragments of his ...
Carl Fitzgerald (Sam Neill) is a lifelong underachiever who takes a job as a chef in a Melbourne nightclub. There he meets and falls for bartender Sophie (Zoe Carides), and falls under the suspicious eye of club bouncer Laurie (Boris Brkic). When a drug-dealing co-worker is killed with Carl's unwilling involvement, his attempts to avoid ...
Death row prisoner Callum Lynch (Michael Fassbender) is kidnapped after a faked execution and wakes up in a secret facility in Madrid. There he is plugged into "the Animus" - a cutting edge technology that allows people to experience the lives of their ancestors - and forced to help an ancient conspiracy of Templars in ...
Two rival car manufacturers are in a race to release their new sports cars. When the Tiger company's test vehicle crashes, photographers paid for by the rival Yamato corporation are there to shoot the accident and leak it to the press. Soon afterwards it becomes clear that Yamato has somehow stolen the blueprints to Tiger's ...
Joo-ri (Kim Hye-jun) and Yoon-ah (Park Se-jin) are high school classmates who hate one another. Their acrimony only increases when Joo-ri's father and Yoon-ah's mother have an affair, resulting in Yoon-ah's mother Mi-hee (Kim So-jin) falling pregnant. While Mi-hee seems unable of treating her pregnancy seriously, Joo-ri's father Dae-won (Kim Yoon-seok) suffers a crisis of ...
On 19 July this year, the Dutch actor Rutger Hauer died. He had been one of my favourite actors for much of my life, ever since being entranced by his performance as the runaway fugitive Roy Batty in Ridley Scott's 1982 film Blade Runner. Tributes and obituaries all cited Blade Runner as one of his most noted performances, as ...
