Director – Im Kwon-taek – 1989 – South Korea – Cert. 18 – 121m ***1/2 As a young woman attempts to live as a Buddhist monk, she embarks on a series of increasingly physical sexual relationships – part of a strand of films celebrating actress Kang Soo-Yeon (1966-2022) from LKFF, the London Korean Film Festival […]
Director – David Yates – 2022 – UK – Cert. 12a – 142m *** In the 1930s, Newt Scamander, Albus Dumbledore and others attempt to prevent the despotic wizard Grindlewald from seizing power in a wizard’s election in J.K. Rowling’s third Fantastic Beasts movie – out in cinemas on Friday, April 8th It’s difficult to […]
Director – Christopher Smith – 2020 – UK – Cert. 15 – 97m ***1/2 A vicar, his wife and their daughter move into a haunted rectory which seems to be out to get them – on digital platforms from Friday, March 26th and Shudder from Thursday, April 15th The Rev Stanley Hall (Matthew Clarke) is […]
Director – Kim Ki-young – 1974 – South Korea – 111m ***** Buddhist, monastic drama. Celibacy confronts carnal desire and a new senior monk must be chosen as the incumbent nears death. Free to view in the Korean Film Archive as part of Korean Film Nights Online: Trapped! The Cinema of Confinement (Friday, July 17th […]