Daytime Drinking, 2008. Directed by Noh Young-Seok. Starring Song Sam-Dong and Yuk Sang-Yeop. SYNOPSIS: A heart-broken guy sets off on an alcohol-fuelled journey of discovery. Daytime Drinking is a surreal Korean comedy following Jin, an average Joe who has just been dumped by his girlfriend. The film begins with Jin and his friends gathered around […]

Moss (a.k.a. Iggi), 2010. Directed by Kang Woo-Suk. Starring Park Hae-il, Jeong Jae-young and Yu Jun-Sang. SYNOPSIS: A man returns to his hometown after the mysterious death of his father and stumbles into a dark web of secrets and betrayals. No one likes disappointing a friend. I’m sure “stop letting friends down” or “make more […]

Liam Trimon the critical reception for New Year’s Eve… What did you get up to on New Year’s Eve? Fireworks are standard fare on the 31st of December and I bet you at least heard a few, even if you were trying to avoid the garish explosions of tinsel in the sky. Booze is another […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of ‘Page and Screen’… In previous Page and Screens I’ve referred to the book How Fiction Works by James Wood. Last night, after returning home from seeing Beginners, I immediately plucked it off the shelf. Despite all the quirkiness of Mike Mills’s indie rom com, trying so hard to […]

Street Wars, 2011. Directed by Keoni Waxman. Starring Steven Seagal, Kyle Cassie & Peter Graham-Gaudreau. SYNOPSIS: Elijah Kane (Steven Seagal), the head of a crack undercover police unit, leads his team in a race against time to bring to justice the cold blooded gang flooding the Seattle streets with a lethal drug. Steven Seagal has […]

Liam Trim takes in a double-bill of ‘Rise of the Planet of the Apes’ and ‘Super 8’… It’s been a while since I went to the cinema. But it feels much longer than it actually is. That’s because it’s summer blockbuster season and every week a new big gun toting production swaggers into town. Stay […]

Liam Trim with the latest edition of Page and Screen… Some stories will always be set in certain times and places. It’s impossible to imagine most Dickensian tales grounded in a world without workhouses and industrial poverty, for example. Similarly Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes would feel out of place investigating crime anywhere other than […]

The Tunnel (German: Der Tunnel), 2001. Directed by Roland Suso Richter. Starring Heino Ferch, Nicolette Krebitz, Alexandra Maria Lara and Sebastian Koch. SYNOPSIS: A group of West Germans hatch an audacious plan to rescue their loves ones from the communist regime of the East by tunnelling beneath the Berlin Wall. Film fans love a good […]

Assault on the Pacific: Kamikaze a.k.a. For Those We Love, 2007. Directed by Taku Shinjo. Starring Keiko Kishi, Satoshi Tokushige, Yosuke Kubozuka and Michitaka Tsutsui. SYNOPSIS: A World War II epic about a squadron of Japanese Kamikaze pilots and their journey through training and first missions toward the terrifying destiny of their battle with the […]

The Grim Reaper (Italian: La commare secca), 1962. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Starring Marisa Solinas, Allen Midgette, Giancarlo De Rosa and Alfredo Leggi. SYNOPSIS: When a prostitute is brutally murdered in a park near the Tiber River in Rome, the police track down all visitors to the park that night in the hope of catching […]