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AFFD 2011: CYRANO AGENCY Review

A romantic comedy from Korea that snaps, crackles, and pops before fizzling out, Cyrano Agency is awash in earnest sentiment that drowns out the fun. It's more properly described as a male weepy. Directed by Kim Hyeon-sek (YMCA Baseball...

CHAWZ Blu-ray Review

Magnet Releasing: A young police officer is transferred from Seoul to a small village in the countryside for duty when he jokingly checked the box to be deployed "anywhere." Arriving at the village, he encounters a bumbling police force who...

Free Korean Movie Night NYC: Forever the Moment (우리 생애 최고의 순간)

On Tuesday the 22nd, the Korean Cultural Service in conjunction with Subway Cinemas will be hosting its final installment of the current series of Free Korean Movie Night featuring sports films at the Tribeca Cinemas. Like it says in...

CHAW Picked Up By Magnet Releasing For US DVD

Magnet Releasing, fine distributor of many excellent films, have picked up the North American distribution rights to Korea's 2009 monster boar flick, Chaw.  In what seems to be a habit with their Korean acquisitions, they've inexplicably changed the title to...

[K-FILM REVIEWS] 차우 (Chaw)

Hell, you could easily call it a cop-out. Would be perfectly understandable.But have you noticed how many Korean films - and I'm not merely limiting myself to genre pictures - seem to despise telling you who the bad guy is...