Over the last few days, we watched a couple of films. Neither of the movies were path-breaking or landmarks but by any measure they were decent enough. * Given our recently developed fondness for Korean films, one of the movies was not surprisingly the 2010 film Housemaid featuring the lovely Jeon Do-yeon and directed by […]
By size, South Korea is smaller than the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu (100,000 sq km vs 130,000 sq km). In terms of population, Tamil Nadu has 72-million people versus 49 million for South Korea. The Tamil film industry and its larger Bollywood sibling make scores of films every year, most of them unwatchable […]
Psychopathic killer Kyung-chul fondling his au naturel victim’s arms: Your skin is so soft. Looks like it’ll be easy. Bleeding, battered young woman Joo-yeo: Please don’t kill me. Kyung-chul: Why not? Joo-yeo cries: I’m pregnant. Please, let me live. Kyung-chul pauses for a second, lifts his hand high and brings the knife down swiftly, brutally […]