Tag: warfilm
Kim Ki-duk Gets $24 Million for Chinese War Film WHO IS GOD
And now for something completely different. Maverick Korean auteur Kim Kim-duk is hopping over to China for his next project, and after years of working on microbudgets and failing to crack his own country's commercial realm, he's getting a supersized...
Review: GOOD KILL Intelligently Examines Drone Warfare
"Keep compartmentalizing" is a piece of advice from a commanding officer to his ace pilot. This is darkly humourous, intelligent screenwriting because these drone-piloting soldiers spend 12 hours a day literally inside a box, albeit an air-conditioned one filled...
Interview: GOOD KILL, Director Andrew Niccol Discusses The View From Above
With the drone warfare drama, Good Kill, opening in Canada and the US this week, I had a chance to speak with director Andrew Niccol about the film briefly over the phone. But it was a very dense conversation that...
Kim Han-min To Follow ROARING CURRENTS With Manchuria-Set War Pic
In the wake of the record-breaking success of last summer's Roaring Currents, Kim Han-min is opting to remain in the period war genre as he is busy preparing a new film called Bongoh Town Battle (working title), about a two-day...
GOOD KILL: A Game of Drones, Latest Trailer for Andrew Niccol's Tense Thriller
Will Andrew Niccol's latest feature capture the imagination of the movie going public in a similar fashion to American Sniper? On the surface, both films share a number of commonalities, not the least of which are soldiers having to kill...