Motherhood, careers and social expectation clash for one newsreader in Jung Ji-yeon’s tense psycho-thriller.
Category: Thriller
Rainbow Trout
Five friends escape to the country, before having to escape from the country in Park Chong-won’s black dramedy.
The Sparring Partner
Ho Cheuk-tin’s debut is a tight, well-written and stylishly-directed legal thriller with two wonderfully unlikeable leads.
A Taxi of Coldness
A cab driver and his passenger play a game of wits in Kim Joon-ha’s tense short.
Kinsenas, katapusan
In GB Sampedro’s erotic thriller, even fifteen days feels like too long.
Illang: The Wolf Brigade
There’s a lot of bark but not much bite in Kim Jee-Woon’s Wolf Brigade remake.
Naked Killer
Clarence Fok delivers on nudity and killers in Naked Killer, though not in the quantities one might have hoped.
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
A big, bad wolf faces the consequences of the life he’s chosen in Mamoru Oshii and Hiroyuki Okiura’s dystopian sci fi.
Furie
A mother goes on a rampage of revenge when her daughter is … well, taken in Lê Văn Kiệt’s martial arts beat-em-up.
The Housemaid
Im Sang-soo’s Housemaid remake could use a declutter.
Woman of Fire
Insanity reigns over a married couple and their housemaid in the most broken of homes.
Raging Fire
Benny Chan ensures he goes out guns blazing in his final theatrical film.