By Gordon Foote. Carrying on from Land of Hope, I have another Eastern film on the block this week. Moving from Japan to South Korea, we have Nugu-ui ttal-do anin Haewon, or Nobody’s Daughter Haewon for those, like myself, whose only prior exposure to the Korean vernacular came courtesy of Psy
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Movie stars don’t get much more iconic than the original blonde bombshell herself, Marilyn Monroe. Her astonishingly photogenic face and infamous curves have been splashed across prints, paintings and all amount of paraphernalia since her rise to fame in the 1950s. Her character, equally, has been the subject of numerous documentaries
Sandcastle (The Search) is the beautifully intricate story of a young woman on her journey of self-discovery and her break through of societal pressures in a modern India. The movie is the debut feature for director and writer Shomshuklla Das and on the modest budget, can be described as nothing
The Conjuring is the new addition to James Wan’s list of supernatural horrors. With his previous works including Insidious and Saw, there’s an almost determined certainty of the delightfully creepy inclusions of poltergeists and demonic presence. But being up against Insidious 2 and quite clearly comparable to the original Paranormal
