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Blu-Ray Review: Snowpiercer
Distributor: Anchor Bay
Release Date: October 21, 2014
MSRP: $29.99
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Film: B+ / Video: A- / Audio: A / Extras: B+
By some degree the best of the recent American projects of Korean auteurs, Bong Joon-ho’s Snowpiercer uses its conceit of a tr...
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Control The Engine, Control The World: Obsession In “Snowpiercer”
Every filmmaker has their obsessions. Martin Scorsese has examined the ins and outs of Catholic guilt and redemption through a gangland lens since the start of his career. Alfred Hitchcock nursed a predilection for mistaken identity and the kinky duality of tr...
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“Snowpiercer” And the Eclectic Whiteness of the Eco-pocalyspse
Note. This review is based on the version screened during the 2014 Berlinale Film Festival.
Joon-ho Bong's The Host was delightfully eclectic, allowing gore and camp to swiftly mingle within a more traditional horror narrative frame. The Korean director's l...
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LAFF Review: “Snowpiercer” is Spectacularly Off the Rails
Once upon a time, Bong Joon-Ho's ambitious sci-fi action film Snowpiercer was threatened with an Americanized edit by controversial industry magnate Harvey Weinstein. Fans of the Korean auteur (as well as fans of good sci-fi in general) were understandably ver...
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Bong Joon-ho‘s ‘Snowpiercer’ Hitting Theaters Summer 2014
The war is over! The Weinstein Co. have denied Western audiences the ability to see Bong Joon-ho‘s Snowpiercer for far too long. The sci-fi film had its world premier in South Korea last summer, but now there's a date in Summer 2014. According to Box Office Mo...
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“Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons”: Another Giddily Over-the-Top Fantasy Epic from Stephen Chow
For audiences habitually hungry for visual feasts of movement and mayhem, lapping up Stephen Chow’s films can be irresistible. That unstoppable box office titan of Hong Kong cinema’s wired filmmaking flair is evident as ever in his ninth feature as director, t...
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New ‘Snowpiercer’ Stills Make Wait for US Release Date So Much Worse
The road to getting a solid US release date for Bong Joon-Ho's Snowpiercer has been a ragged one, with the disgruntled director reportedly battling Harvey Weinstein over what he felt were unnecessary cuts made to the film. But it appears that the saga may fin...
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Bong Joon-ho Not So Pleased with Cuts to ‘Snowpiercer’
A few months ago The Weinstein Company announced that the U.S. theatrical release of Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer would be significantly shorter than the overseas finished product with 20 minutes cut from the film's 126 minute runtime. In August, Bong seemed unp...
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Why Harvey Weinstein’s Neutering of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...
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