-
Recent Posts
- The Ivory Game (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): Save elephants
- Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower (2017) ☆☆☆(3/4): A vivid chronicle of the Umbrella Revolution
- Confess, Fletch (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): Fletch returns…
- Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): On his fiery artistry
- Citizen Pane (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Six little satires both painfully and realistically funny
- Dream Palace (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): The price of her compromise
- Father of the Bride (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): A likable Cuban American remake
- Victim/Suspect (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Victims treated as “suspects”
- Sprinter (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Desperate Sprinters
- Scream VI (2023) ☆☆☆(3/4): Ghostface is back… in Manhattan
Blogroll
Interesting Windows
Movies
Categories
Meta
Archives
My Photos
-
Join 794 other subscribers
Blog Stats
- 876,202 hits
Seongyong’s Twitter
Tweets by kaist455
Tag Archives: Korean War
Devotion (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): One black US Navy pilot in the Korean War
“Devotion”, which is currently available on Netflix in South Korea, is about one real-life black US Navy pilot who deserves to be known more for his barrier-breaking efforts. Although he is often regarded via a white figure who happened to … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Korean War, Military, Navy, Pilot, Race, Real-life figure, Real-life story, War
Leave a comment
Swing Kids (2018) ☆☆☆(3/4): Tap dancing at a Korean War prison camp
There are several spirited moments in South Korean film “Swing Kids”, a funny, delightful comedy drama movie about a group of different characters trying to do a tap dance performance at a Korean War prison camp. Although it starts to … Continue reading
Posted in Movies
Tagged Korean War, Musical, Prisoner-of-war, South Korean Film, Tap Dancing, War
1 Comment
My FFC review for The Front Line (2011)
My Far-flung correspondent review for “The Front Line”(2011) has just been posted. If you want to read it, click here. The review was revised from my original review written in July 2011.
The Front Line (2011) ☆☆☆(3/4) : Waiting for the truce
There is always the lagging phase in wars unless they end quickly. The soldiers on the both sides are tired and exhausted day by day. They doubt whether they can eventually survive or not. And it seems their hardship … Continue reading
71: Into the Fire (2010) ☆1/2 (1.5/4) : Awful Hollowness based on a real-life war story
Fortunately, “71: Into the Fire”, officially released on last Thursday in South Korea, is not the bottom of the barrel. But still, it’s near the bottom of the barrel. The movie is not as ideologically repulsive as I feared, but … Continue reading