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Ten Essential Korean Cinema Gems

July 27, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe offers up some essential Korean cinema gems… While Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite garnered global attention on its way to becoming the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture back in 2020, Korean cinema has been crafting trend setting, ahead of the curve cinema for years and always comfortable to […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Day Off, A Girl At My Door, Bong Joon-ho, Lady Vengeance, mother!, Night Journey, Oldboy, Parasite, Peppermint Candy, Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, The Good the Bad The Weird, The Handmaiden, The Vengeance Trilogy, The Wailing, The Witch: Part One – The Subversion

If Film & TV Is A Game… Is Korea Winning?

March 26, 2022 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at the booming worldwide popularity of Korean film and TV. With the Western studios so preoccupied with IP, are we getting more engaging films and shows from Korea? German cinema in the 30’s. American noir in the 40’s. Japanese cinema in the 50’s. Nordic cinema from the 50’s and 60’s. British cinema […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Television, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Burning, Hellbound, My Name, Oldboy, Parasite, Squid Game, The Handmaiden

The Art of Giving Film Recommendations

December 1, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on the art of giving film recommendations… You’ve got to see The Matrix! You have to! It’s 1999, and there’s a distinct transition between the recommender of The Matrix as being ahead of the curve, to a couple of months down the line when such a recommendation is lost in a cacophony of […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: cure, Legend Of The Holy Drinker, Maborosi, Naked, Possession, Possessor, Riders of Justice, Sonatine, Stalker, The Handmaiden, The Ipcress File, Violent Cop

Audience Manipulation Through Character Perspective

February 19, 2021 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe on playing with character perspective to take the audience exactly where you want them… In the history of cinema, many writers and directors have sought to transfix an audience and take them to very deliberate places. Sometimes these tales fire straight like an arrow, leading us on a linear and clear path, with […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: American Psycho, Fight Club, Rashomon, The Burning, The Handmaiden, The Usual Suspects

Movie Review – The Handmaiden (2016)

June 14, 2017 by Freda Cooper

The Handmaiden, 2016. Directed by Park Chan-wook Starring Min-hee Kim, Tae-ri Kim, Jung-woo Ha, and Jin-woong Jo. SYNOPSIS: Japanese heiress Hideko employs a new handmaiden, Sook-hee, but what she doesn’t know is that the girl is a pickpocket.  She’s been recruited by a con artist who aims to marry her mistress and swindle her out […]

Filed Under: Freda Cooper, Movies, Reviews Tagged With: Jin-woong Jo, Jung-woo Ha, Min-hee Kim, Park Chan-Wook, Tae-ri Kim, The Handmaiden

60th BFI London Film Festival 2016 Review – The Handmaiden (2016)

October 9, 2016 by Ben Robins

The Handmaiden, 2016 Directed by Park Chan-wook Starring Min-hee Kim, Kim Tae-ri, Jung-woo Ha, Jin-woong Jo SYNOPSIS: During the Japanese occupation of Korea, young con-woman Sook-Hee is hired to be a wealthy heiress’s handmaiden at an isolated countryside estate. Joining forces with a fellow thief, she plans to swindle the heiress out of her fortune, […]

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