Yonggary (1999) – Review

The 90s were something of a banner decade for Kaiju, with numerous genre efforts thundering into town on a yearly basis. Not only did Toho

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Jung_E (2023) – Review

While the ever-present spectre of A.I. looms over us, one bright side that’s come from all this global anxiety seems to be that any filmmaker

Yongary: Monster From The Deep (1967) – Review

One of the most fascinating things about the success of Ishiro Honda’s Godzilla back in 1954 is that other countries decided to give the whole

Taegukgi: The Brotherhood Of War (2004) – Review

One of the greatest legacies of Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan is that not only did it infuse the war movie with a brutal new

Space Sweepers (2021) – Review

From the hapless, jumpsuited victims of Alien to the Guardians Of The Galaxy, to the lesser known flicks such as Stuart Gordon’s Space Truckers and

Peninsula (2020) – Review

Released in 2016 to universal acclaim, Yeon Sang Ho’s Train To Busan was the best thing to happen to the zombie genre in bloody ages.

#Alive (2020) – Review

The biggest problem you could possibly face being a Korean filmmaker with aspirations of crafting a zombie film is that there’s absolute no way in

The Host (2006) – Review

Not to be confused with the many other movies out there that’s claimed this admittedly derivative title, Bong Joon-ho’s genre blending monster mash emerged from

Train To Busan (2016) – Review

In many ways, the zombie genre over the last twenty years has behaved much like zombies themselves. Uncontrollably spreading in number like a virus and

Parasite (2019) – Review

The dictionary describes the word “parasite” as an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving