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Blending realist grounding with a genre mood is difficult. Capturing the border between those two seemingly different realms and turning it into a film is no easy task. Even in South Korea’s film industry, where tightly executed genre movies and grounded, reality-driven stories dominate, films that...

In Netflix's 〈Husbands in Action〉, released on the 19th, Gong Myung delivers a performance that most fully showcases the actor’s coined "bright-eyed mania" charm. The film is a comedy-action story about an unpredictable rescue mission in which an ex-husband and a current husband, who unexpectedly...

Above all, it’s a genre festival. For its 30th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (Chairman Shin Chul, hereafter BIFAN), the festival screens 321 films from 50 countries (170 feature films, 85 short films, 38 AI titles, and 28 XR titles), and of these 93 are world premieres.

〈bracket〉HOPE〈/bracket〉 is an action film built with traditional techniques, featuring a high-tech 3D creature. 〈bracket〉HOPE〈/bracket〉 sought to make a classic action movie in which all stunts are performed and filmed directly by the actors, without any CG assistance, just like the action films...

Jill Smokler, the founder of the digital parenting platform ‘Scary Mommy,’ has died after a cancer battle, leaving behind a legacy of a once-in-a-generation blogger who changed the landscape of modern online parenting communities by telling millions of mothers worldwide, “It’s okay not to be...

When brutality reigns, being ordinary becomes a crime Brazil under the hard-edged blade of a military dictatorship in 1977. The reality facing ‘Marcelo’ (played by Wagner Moura) is pure, surreal terror. A rotting corpse sprawled on a gas station floor, and the ugly face of state power—geared more...

A counterattack by the analog age in the digital era, sweeping theaters worldwide Movie theaters around the world have fallen under the spell of Woody and Buzz once again. ‘Toy Story 5,’ the ambitious latest installment from the hallmark of well-made animation, ‘Pixar Animation,’ is unleashing a...

A backdoor tactic in the entertainment industry that ended up in the court of law — the winner was ‘Lee Si-an’ The model ‘Lee Si-an’, who captured the public’s overwhelming attention through Netflix’s global mega-hit reality show ‘Singles Inferno 4’, secured a complete win in a messy ‘exclusive...

In an era dominated by exclusive screen access, independent films have launched an all-out counterattack for survival. A nationwide audience coalition project aimed at reclaiming what theaters are for and protecting the value of long-run screenings, the “Slow Cinema” movement, has opened its...

A third miracle of goodwill that blossoms under the fan name 'PLLI,' breaking down the boundary between fantasy and reality 'PLAVE,' the front-runner among virtual idols, is bringing a heavy warmth to the real world.