Train to Busan, 2016 Written and directed by Sang-ho Yeon Starring Yoo Gong, Dong-seok Ma, Yu-mi Jeong, Eui-sung Kim, Soo-an Kim, Sohee SYNOPSIS: While a zombie-virus breaks out in South Korea, a couple of passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan. George A. Romero’s Night of the Living Dead was released in 1968, […]
Movie Review – Train to Busan (2016)
Train to Busan, 2016. Directed by Sang-ho Yeon Starring Yoo Gong, Soo-an Kim, Ma Dong-seok, Yu-mi Jeong, Woo-sik Choi, Sohee, Eui-sung Kim SYNOPSIS: In a viral outbreak afflicted South Korea, a group of passengers attempt to stay alive on the train from Seoul to Busan… Long distance train journeys are pretty frustrating at the best of times. […]
Movie Review – The Age of Shadows (2016)
The Age of Shadows, 2016. Directed by Kim Jee-woon. Starring Lee Jung-chool, Um Tae-goo, Yoo Gong, Byung-hun Lee, and Han Ji-min. SYNOPSIS: Set in the late 1920s, The Age of Shadows follows the cat-and-mouse game that unfolds between a group of resistance fighters trying to bring in explosives from Shanghai to destroy key Japanese facilities in Seoul, and […]
DVD Review – Train to Busan (2016)
Train to Busan, 2016. Directed by Sang-ho Yeon. Starring Yoo Gong, Soo-an Kim, Yu-mi Jung, Dong-seok Ma, and Eui-sung Kim. SYNOPSIS: A selfish businessman reconnects with his young daughter on a train journey across South Korea, albeit against a backdrop of marauding zombies. You would have thought that the zombie genre had all but dried […]
