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Review: STEEL RAIN, Bombastic Action-Drama Ponders Nuclear Armageddon
The first of a trio of major end-of-year releases in Korea this winter, Steel Rain is the third North Korea-themed action-thriller of 2017 (following Confidential Assignment and V.I.P.) and easily its most bombastic. From The Attorney helmer Yang Woo-suk, who...
Opening: THE WAILING Cranks Up Tension To Unbearable Levels
After turning the Korean thriller on its head with The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, director Na Hong-jin has reinvented himself again, aggressively pushing against the boundaries of genre cinema with The Wailing. A deafening descent into hell, it may...
Cannes 2016 Review: THE WAILING, A Bone-Chilling, Thunderous Descent Into Hell
After turning the Korean thriller on its head with The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, director Na Hong-jin has reinvented himself again, aggressively pushing against the boundaries of genre cinema with The Wailing. A deafening descent into hell, it may...
Na Hong-jin's Blistering Thriller THE WAILING Gets US Trailer And Release Date
Ahead of its premiere this month at the Cannes Film Festival, Na Hong-jin's The Wailing, his follow-up to The Chaser and The Yellow Sea, has been picked up for North American distribution by Well Go USA, which just launched the...