Showing posts with label midnight screenings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label midnight screenings. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

Review: THE VILLAINESS Shoots and Chops Her Way to Bloody Revenge


By Pierce Conran

Korean action cinema bursts through to new horizons in the hyperkinetic pulp blade and bullet ballet The Villainess. Equal parts Kill Bill, Nikita, John Wick, Hardcore Henry and HK-era John Woo, the second film from Confession of Murder director Jung Byung-gil is an inspired but exhausting entry into this year's Midnight Screenings lineup at the Cannes Film Festival.

Thursday, August 10, 2017

Review: THE MERCILESS Punches Up Familiar Gangster Tale


By Pierce Conran

After helming a low-key music drama (The Beat Goes On) and a romantic comedy (Whatcha Wearin'?), director Byun Sung-hyun finally shows off what may be his true colors in the brash and confident half gangster thriller, half prison drama The Merciless, the second Korean film to be featured as a midnight screening in Cannes this year.