It’s time to take a look back at 2025 in film and ponder what we’ve learned… 2025 is drawing to a close, and we can get a sense of how things have gone and what we’ve learned from cinema this year. It’s fair to say there have been surprises and some trends continuing, with others […]
Protecting Family At All Costs: Lee Byung-hun on No Other Choice – Exclusive Interview
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 […]
