Byun Sung-hyun’s latest endeavour, the black comedy Good News, starts with a line you might recognise โ at least partially: “Inspired by real events but all characters and events portrayed are fictional.” After a beat, the film offers us a question: “What’s the truth then?“ The answer to that might never come, but the mad…
2025 Korean films
Wall to Wall Review: An Average Joe in an Average (Yet Socially Critical) Thriller
Some films prove that real life can be scarier than any fiction. Endless debt, rising interest rates, undue blame, terrible bosses, desperate decisions, noisy neighbours. If you put all of these elements together, you can easily draw a nightmarish scenario that might shake even the most stoic of us. That’s where we might find Netflix’s…
Revelations (Netflix) Review: A Timely Message… But Does It Stick the Landing?
To promote his most recent Netflix feature Revelations, director and co-screenwriter Yeon Sang-ho (of Train to Busan fame) gave an interview to The Korea Times in which he shared: Nowadays, people only want to see what they want to see and believe what they want to believe. (โฆ) Like everyone else, I’m curious about my…
