Robert Kojder chats with No Other Choice star Lee Byung-hun… Having quite a hell of a year between voiceover work in the red-hot popular animated spectacle K-Pop Demon Hunters to delivering a rich performance of hypocrisies and insecurities told through a brilliant lending of violence and dark humor in Park Chan-wook’s No Other Choice, Lee […]
Movie Review – No Other Choice (2025)
No Other Choice, 2025. Directed by Park Chan-wook. Starring Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon, Lee Sung-min, Yeom Hye-ran, Cha Seung-won, Kim Woo-seung, Choi So-yul, Kim Hyeong-mook, Woo Jeong-won, Yoo Yeon-seok, Yoon Ga-i, Oh Dal-su, Lee Suk-hyeong, Oh Kwang-rok, Lee Yong-nyeo, Kim Hae-sook, Im Tae-poong, Nam Jin-bok, and Ahn Hyun-ho. SYNOPSIS: After being unemployed for […]
2025 BFI London Film Festival Review – No Other Choice
No Other Choice, 2025. Directed by Park Chan-wook. Starring Lee Byung-hun, Son Ye-jin, Park Hee-soon. SYNOPSIS: After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition. Park Chan-wook has proven adept at seamlessly flitting between genres over the past 30 years, from dark, psychological drama […]
Lee Byung-hun has No Other Choice in trailer for Park Chan-wook’s black comedy thriller
Neon has shared a trailer for director Park Chan-wook’s (Oldboy, Decision to Leave) South Korean satirical thriller No Other Choice. Based on Donald Westlake’s novel The Ax, the film stars Lee Byung-hun as a man desperately searching for work after being let go from the job he worked in for more than two decades, as […]
Lee Byung-hun has to eliminate the competition in the trailer for Park Chan-wook‘s No Other Choice
Mubi and Neon has released the teaser trailer for Old Boy director Park Chan-wook‘s latest feature film No Other Choice. The movie sees Squid Game star Lee Byung-hun playing a middle-aged man named Man-su, who finds himself unemployed after being sacked from the paper company he has worked at for 25-years. Desperate for a job […]
Netflix shares new Squid Game season 2 trailer and poster
With just a month to go until the eagerly-awaited second season of Squid Game lands on Netflix, the streamer has released a new trailer and poster for South Korean dystopian survival thriller series which sees Lee Jung-jae’s Player 456 return to the deadly game three years after winning the competition with a plan to end […]
4K Ultra HD Review – A Bittersweet Life (2005)
A Bittersweet Life, 2005. Directed by Kim Jee-woon. Starring Lee Byung-hun, Shin Min-a, Kim Yeong-cheol, Hwang Jung-min, and Jin Goo. SYNOPSIS: A mobster with a conscience falls foul of his boss when he disobeys an order, forcing him on a path of revenge. No country does revenge movies quite like South Korea, and Kim Jee-woon’s […]
Video Review – Concrete Utopia is a real contender for Best International Feature Film
EJ Moreno reviews Concrete Utopia… For decades, South Korea has produced some of the most iconic films of the modern era. But after Parasite, it seemed like the film industry had peaked in popularity and quality. Now, Concrete Utopia is here to shake that notion and become one of the year’s best films. With a […]
Movie Review – Emergency Declaration (2022)
Emergency Declaration, 2022. Written and Directed by Jae-rim Han. Starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Byung-hun, Jeon Do-yeon, Kim Nam-gil, Yim Si-wan, Kim So-jin, Park Hae-jun, Seol In-a, Kim Bo-min, Moon Sook, Maurice Turner Jr., and Im Sung-jae. SYNOPSIS: While investigating a terroristic threat that goes viral online, Korean authorities discover that a suspect has recently boarded […]
