Setting the Scene: How Did The Asian Financial Crisis Shape Contemporary South Korean Horror?
‘Setting The Scene’ is a column where we examine how a country’s culture, economy, history and politics have all come together...
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Setting the Scene: How Did The Asian Financial Crisis Shape Contemporary Thai Horror?
‘Setting The Scene’ is a column where we examine how a country’s culture, economy, history and politics all come together to...
Park Chan-Wook’s ‘The Handmaiden’ – A Feminist, LGBTQ+ Classic in a Deeply Misogynistic Genre
Spoilers for ‘The Handmaiden’ Image credit: CJ Entertainment Park Chan-wook. You may not be familiar with his name, but I am...
Sound & Colour: Connie Mak’s ‘Nights of Entanglement’《夜夜痴缠》in Ronny Yu’s ‘The Occupant’ 《灵气迫人》
Sound & Colour is a column where we talk about memorable pairings of music and film. Think “Ride Of The Valkyries”...
Sound & Colour: Kazuyoshi Saito and Yoshihiro Nakamura’s ‘Fish Story’
Sound & Colour is a new column where we talk about memorable pairings of music and film. Think “Ride Of The...
Art and Soul – How Studio Ghibli Challenges the Notion of the Tortured Artist
There’s many lenses through which we can read Studio Ghibli films, like self-discovery, friendship and man’s relationship with nature. These are...
Sound & Colour: Masayoshi Yamasaki’s ‘One more time, One more chance’ in Makoto Shinkai’s ‘5 Centimeters Per Second’
Sound & Colour is a new column where we talk about memorable pairings of music and film. Think “Ride Of The...
Psychosinematics: Behind the Guilty Pleasure of Reality TV
All the shows mentioned in this article are available on hayu, reality on-demand, and you can check them out with a...
Exploring The Marxist Themes Behind Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’
(Spoilers for 2013’s ‘Snowpiercer’) Netflix has just released the first episode of Snowpiercer, a series based on Bong Joon-ho’s 2013 film...
Psychosinematics: Examining the Destruction of Mother and Son in Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Mother’
Bong Joon-ho is one of those psychologically insightful directors whose works portray more than what they seem. The first watching of...
Sound & Colour: Nat King Cole’s ‘Quizás, Quizás, Quizás’ in Wong Kar Wai’s ‘In The Mood For Love’
Sound & Colour is a column where we talk about memorable pairings of music and film. Think “Ride Of The Valkyries”...
Psychosinematics: Is There More to ‘Kaatru Veliyidai’s’ Megalomaniac Hero?
Psychosinematics is a series where we attempt to break down characters using psychoanalytic theories. In this in depth exploration we endeavour...