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Tag Archives: Disaster
Good News (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): A South Korean disaster black comedy from Netflix
South Korean Netflix film “Good News”, which was released two days ago, is a disaster black comedy film loosely inspired by a real-life hijacking incident in March 1970. While it is clear from the beginning that most of its story … Continue reading
A House of Dynamite (2025) ☆☆☆1/2 (3.5/4): Nobody can possibly be prepared for this
Kathryn Bigelow’s new film “A House of Dynamite”, which is being shown in South Korean theaters before being released on Netflix two weeks later, is quite tense and disturbing to say the least. Closely and vividly following how its many … Continue reading
The Lost Bus (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): It works whenever it is on fire
Paul Greengrass’ latest film “The Lost Bus”, which was released on Apple TV+ on last Friday, works whenever it is on fire. Based on one real-life story associated with the 2018 Camp Fire in California, the movie is as clichéd … Continue reading
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The End We Start From (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Her motherhood after a disaster
“The End We Start From” is a simple but compelling movie which follows a young woman’s struggle for survival and motherhood after one big national disaster. Mostly limiting itself around its heroine’s viewpoint, the movie often accentuates how things become … Continue reading
Twisters (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): There will come more tornadoes, you know
Lee Isaac Chung’s new film “Twisters” serves us as much as expected, and it did a fairly good job on the whole. While not going that far from the story formula established in its predecessor “Twister” (1996), the movie provides … Continue reading
Hijacking 1971 (2024) ☆☆☆(3/4): An intense South Korean hijacking drama
South Korean film “Hijacking 1971” almost made me forget that it is actually the heavily fictionalized version of one real-life incident. While I and many other audiences knew where it will eventually land, we all were gripped by its dramatic … Continue reading
Society of the Snow (2023) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Under that unimaginably extreme condition
What would you do under a situation as grim and extreme as whatever the survivors of the Andes Flight Disaster experienced in 1972? This is surely a hard and difficult question, and Netflix film “Society of the Snow”, which was … Continue reading
Concrete Utopia (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): An apartment building which survives
South Korean film “Concrete Utopia” is a dark but compelling apocalyptic thriller coupled with some biting social satire to be savored. While it feels conventional on the surface at times, the movie efficiently handles its story and characters in addition … Continue reading
The Moon (2023) ☆☆(2/4): A middling space drama with lots of squeezed tears
My mind instantly went back to several different space drama films as watching South Korean film “The Moon”, which is incidentally not a remake of Duncan Jones’ acclaimed 2009 SF drama film of the same name. While its first act … Continue reading
White Noise (2022) ☆☆(2/4): A whimsical misfire from Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach’s latest film “White Noise”, which is released in South Korean theaters in this week and then will be on Netflix around the end of this month, does not click that well with me. The movie, which is based … Continue reading
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