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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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Weekend Box Office: “Captain,” Of Course
Whenever a new Marvel movie comes out, there's not much else to talk about at the box office, as no one wants to open a movie against it and the Marvel movie plays on so many screens that it's inevitable that it claims the top prize. And so it was this weekend...
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No Retirement for Entertaining Marvel Sequel, “Captain America: The Winter Solider”
"Captain America retires! " Such scandalous news made headlines in the American media a few days ago. Chris Evans, one of the key players in the Marvel-inspired film universe, announced that he's abandoning acting indefinitely in favor of directing. The reason...
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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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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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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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