A review of The Conjuring 2 They say summer is the perfect time to stay cool watching horror movies. Tons of them came out the last couple of months, most of them not so good. The Conjuring 2, however, almost…
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An instruction manual for getting over guys
A review of How to be Single This February has been an amazing month for movie lovers. I bet a lot of you folks thought the same as me when the trailer for How to Be Single came out. I…
Ready, set, run for your Life!
Review of The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials The highly anticipated movie based on the popular dystopian books The Maze Runner series, arrived at Korean cinemas on September 18. The film is the sequel to last year’s The Maze Runner.…
A touching and instructive movie
Review of The Intern The Intern, released on September 24 stars Robert De Niro and Anne Hathaway. In the movie, online clothing retail company run by Jules (Hathaway) starts from her kitchen but gains more than 200 employees in only…
Suit up for action!
A Review of Kingsman: The Secret Service Director Matthew Vaughn’s movie Kingsman: The Secret Service has been a huge hit! Over six million Koreans have seen it. Usually only children’s movies get these kinds of numbers. A spy movie like…
Real love through all kinds of pain
A review of Fault in Our Stars Although a boy and girl fall in love, The Fault in Our Stars is not a typical love story. The characters suffer, but there is no hope for the future. And the story…
Myeongnyang makes waves
Koreans have been enjoying the biggest box office hit in the country’s movie history. Director Kim Han-min’s Myeongnyang (명량), also known as The Admiral: Roaring Currents, has been seen by over 16 million people, attracting huge audiences and breaking records…
Full of action and laughs: A review of RED 2
RED 2 is the sequel to the 2010’s RED (meaning Retired, Extremely Dangerous). Bruce Willis and John Malkovich return as Frank Moses and Marvin Boggs. RED 2 has gotten a lot more attention in Korea than the first one, probably…
A fresh take on zombies: a review of Warm Bodies
Jonathan Levine’s film Warm Bodies opened earlier this year to positive reviews and big numbers at the box office, earning more than $20 million opening weekend. The success of Warm Bodies is not a surprise considering the interesting story and…
Movie Review: Miracle in Cell No. 7
Director Lee Hwan-gyeong’s first three movies were not very popular. His fourth movie “Miracle in Cell No. 7”, however, is a different story. Last month the Chosun Ilbo reported that the movie sold more than 10 million tickets. The movie…
“Fix your eyes on the man’s resentment”
The above sentence from the poster for “Broken Arrow”, released on January 18, 2012, gets the public’s attention. This film is an adaptation of a true story based on the crossbow terror case of 2007. Since “The Crucible” (aka “Silenced”),…