Mr. Gam’s Victory (South Korea, 2004)
Korean cinema is very much an industry of genre films: gangster, high school, melodrama, horror and revenge dramas are the most recognizable but recently, sport...
Cavite (2005)
Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon’s film Cavite (2005) wears its indie film roots on its sleeve for good and bad reasons. As a movie,...
Parking (Taiwan, 2008)
It is Mother’s Day in Taiwan and the nominal hero of Parking – upwardly mobile professional Chen-Mo (Chang Chen) – is having a particularly eventful...
Episode 26: Yi Yi
As we mentioned during our one year anniversary episodes, one of the goals of the VCinema podcast is to explore the cinema of Asia in...
Three String Samurai (2006)
The mention of Three String Samurai might instantly evoke the cult action/comedy Six-String Samurai (1998). However, instead of a post-apocalyptic film set in an odd...
Happy End (1999)
Chung Ji-woo’s Happy End is a carefully observed film about love and infidelity. The world that it portrays is a grim one, where all the...
Syndromes and a Century (Thailand, 2006)
When Syndromes and a Century, the fifth feature by art-house wunderkind Apichatpong Weerasethakul, was granted a limited release in his native Thailand following a battle...
Tomie Vs Tomie (2007)
If there’s one good thing to be said about the Tomie film franchise—and this really may be the only good thing—it’s that the films could...
Episode 25: The Housemaid(s)
안녕하세요! VCinema is donating $1 to the Japan Society of New York’s quake relief fund* for each download of this episode between 03/14/11 and 03/28/11. ...
The Foul King (2000)
I surprised myself when I first sat down to write this review. After looking up the director I realised that The Foul King is the...