“Three months ago, I didn’t know anything about this job. Now I know too much. How can I not do anything?” an aggrieved Lee Jung-do (Kim Woo-bin) asks his father in Officer Black Belt as he faces
Watching gruesome chiller The Substance brings to mind Madonna‘s speech at the 2016 Billboard Women In Music Awards. Outlining the sexist and regressive “rules” for women in the public eye, she said with a sigh: “Be what men
Words such as ‘legendary’ and ‘historic’ get tossed around in classic rock circles as readily as Turkish hair replacement recommendations these days. Sotheby’s regularly plays host to George Harrison’s “celebrated” shopping lists or John Lennon’s “mythic” nasal
When it was announced George Clooney and Brad Pitt would team up for their first film together in more than 10 years, Hollywood’s studio sharks were probably drooling with excitement. There was doubtless further delirium when Jon Watts, the
Different by name and different by nature, A Different Man is one of the most original films of the year. Not since the days of Charlie Kaufman, with his brilliant scripts for meta-movies Being John Malkovich, Adaptation and Synecdoche, New York,
Against the backdrop of mass discontent with the monarch, a slave rebellion in Joseon and a foreign invasion, a regal estate burns. A slave slated for the gallows, desperately searches for his master and friend
In theory, this offbeat horror comedy is an easy sell. Perennial Oscar nominee Amy Adams plays a stay-at-home mum who feels so frustrated and cut off from her former life as an artist that she thinks she
Whichever way you look at it, 11-11: Memories Untold is an unusual project. Publisher Bandai Namco is better known for RPGs, fighting games, and anime spin-offs, while co-developer Aardman Animation is the iconic studio behind cheery family
Call of Cthulhu immediately earns points for shelving horror tropes in favor of focusing on the foreboding atmosphere and slow-burn scares of its source material. Inspired more by the pen-and-paper role-playing game of the same name
2016’s Hitman is best remembered for its episodic format, but the experimental reboot also served up some of the assassination-sandbox series’ absolute best missions. The sequel shelves its predecessor’s business model – offering a full campaign over