Movie Review: The Land of Morning Calm – The Shape of What Remains

By Farrukh Anique || In 2024, insurance fraud worth US$870,000 was committed in Korea, roughly half of it carried out through forged medical documents. This film’s story is, on its … Read More

Movie Review: The Pursuit of Happyness – Learning the Art of Hopeful Survival

By Tabbu Shaikh || At first glance, “happyness” is merely a misspelling on a daycare wall – a careless orthographical error painted over a place meant to nurture the future. … Read More

Movie Review: No Other Choice – The Lengths We Go for What We Love

By Farrukh Anique || Recently, nearly thirty-thousand employees of the American multinational tech company Oracle woke up at six in the morning to find an email waiting on their phones: … Read More

Movie Review: A Revival of Fiction for Life – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

By Jacqueline L. Becerra || At the hour of a setting sun, the fluorescent subway lights beam over bent postures looking at phones and over drifting sleepers. Even in transient … Read More

Movie Review: Silenced – A Hearing of the Unheard

By Farrukh Anique || In 2005, a scandal broke in Gwangju, one that would later be retold as Dogani (도가니). The principal of a special school for children with speech … Read More

Movie Review: I Can Speak – A Survivor’s Testimony

By Farrukh Anique || During the Second World War, Japanese soldiers abducted large numbers of underage girls from Korea, China, the Philippines, Taiwan, and other places, forcing them to satisfy … Read More

Movie Review: A Taxi Driver – A May 18 Film

By Farrukh Anique In an evening in October 1979, South Korea’s former-military president Park Chung-hee was sent to his grave in the midst of an elegant dinner, killed by his … Read More

Round and Around: Drawing an Arc of Korean History Through the May 18 Democratic Movement

“Although this film is very specific to South Korean history, it does not require the audience to have previous knowledge on the subject.”