Scribbles and Ramblings

In the late 1990s, it was difficult to come across many Korean films at the video stores. Bong Joon-ho hadn’t directed his first feature yet...

Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, John Sturges)  A train stops at Black Rock, startling the town residents. John Macreedy (Spencer Tracy) gets...

A quick four film spotlight on Hong Kong Crime films which focus on informers and undercover operatives. Hard Boiled (1992, John Woo) I...

Sometimes genre filmmakers are easily dismissed by critics and their works remain ignored until some influential film festival programmer or...