Director – Hwang Dong-hyuk – 2017 – South Korea – 140m **** 1/2 Korean period, winter war movie in which a besieged King, his court and his army decide whether to negotiate or fight as the enemy approaches – the opening film in the London East Asia Film Festival 2017 From its title you might assume […]
Director – Won Shin-yeon – 2017 – South Korea – 118m *** A K-thriller with a memorable premise: serial killer with Alzheimer’s suspects man dating his daughter is also a mass murderer – at the London Film Festival 2017 and London Korean Film Festival 2018 At the start of Memoir Of A Murderer, Kim Byung-su […]
Director – Alexandre O. Philippe – 2017 – US – Cert. 15 – 91m ***** Oh, mother, mother, what have you done??? Find out everything you ever wanted to know about the infamous shower scene, in this doc about Psycho – in the London Film Festival on October 13th and 15th 2017, cinemas on Friday, […]
Director – Xin Yukun – 2017 – China – 120m *** Fist of parental fury: mute villager fights hard to find his missing son in rural China, in a film teeming with extraordinary social commentary and… fighting!!! From the BFI London Film Festival 2017 The young boy Zhang Liu tends sheep on a hillside in […]