Song Kang-ho – Stream On Demand

Bong Joon-ho's 2006 South Korean monster movie 'The Host'

‘The Host’ – Bong Joon-ho’s monster mash on Paramount+ and free on Kanopy and Hoopla

!Featured, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Free, giant monsters, Halloween, Hoopla, horror, International Cinema, Kanopy, Paramount+, SVOD 10/23/2023 Sean Axmaker

This South Korean thriller combines political commentary, dysfunctional family satire, and earnest emotional pathos with the conventions of seventies drive-in movies and Japanese monster movies.

‘Thirst’ – Park Chan-wook’s holy vampire on Peacock

!Featured, based on a novel, Blu-ray, Cannes winner, DVD, Halloween, horror, International Cinema, Peacock, religion, SVOD, thriller 10/13/2023 Sean Axmaker

Song Kang-ho is a Catholic priest who is transformed into a vampire in a medical experiment gone wrong and is torn between his faith and his newfound drives.

Tilda Swinton in Bong Joon-ho 's 'Snowpiercer'

‘Snowpiercer’ – careening apocalyptic allegory on Hulu and Prime Video

!Featured, Amazon Prime Video, based on a comic book, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, Hulu, Science Fiction, Streaming Movies, SVOD 08/29/2023 Sean Axmaker

Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho (‘Parasite’) directs this high-speed allegory barreling down the science fiction tracks of genre cinema.

Park Chan-Wook’s ‘Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance’ on Criterion Channel and MUBI

!Featured, Blu-ray, Crime, Criterion Channel, DVD, International Cinema, MUBI, SVOD, thriller 03/15/2023 Sean Axmaker

Song Kang-ho stars as the corporate CEO who hunts for the man who kidnapped his daughter in the first film in what would become Park’s ‘Vengeance’ trilogy.

Woo-sung Jung, Byung-hun Lee, and Kang-ho Song in the Korean action blast from Kim Jee-Woon

Last chance: ‘The Good, the Bad, the Weird’- Kim Jee-won’s “Oriental Western” on Hulu

!Featured, Action, adventure, Blu-ray, Cult Movies, DVD, historical, Hulu, International Cinema, Last chance 07/20/2021 Sean Axmaker

Kim Jee-won’s The Good, the Bad, the Weird (South Korea, 2008) is a self-proclaimed “Oriental Western.” That about pegs this treasure hunt right out of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly by way of Peking Opera Blues and Dragon Gate Inn, set in thirties Manchuria and filled with Korean expatriates, Chinese bandits, Japanese occupiers, […]

What to stream: ‘Little Women’ on VOD, ‘Parasite’ on Hulu, ‘Quibi’ launches short form streaming programs

!Featured, Academy Award, Academy Award nominee, Acorn TV, Amazon Prime Video, based on a novel, Criterion Channel, Directed by Women, drama, Hulu, International Cinema, literary adaptation, Netflix, On Demand, satire, Showtime Anytime, socially aware cinema, Streaming Movies, SVOD, VOD, What to Stream 04/10/2020 Sean Axmaker

Here’s what’s new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Greta Gerwig directs and adapts “Little Women” (2019, PG) and her take on Louisa May Alcott’s beloved novel brings a modern perspective to the lives of women in Civil War-era America. Saoirse Ronan […]

Song Kang-ho stars in the South Korean spy thriller by Kim Jee-woon

‘The Age of Shadows’ – Korean spy thriller on Netflix

!Featured, Blu-ray, DVD, historical, International Cinema, Netflix, spies and espionage, SVOD, thriller 01/01/2018 Sean Axmaker

Kim Jee-woon, director of such hits as hits The Good the Bad the Weird and I Saw the Devil, announced his return to South Korea after his Hollywood tryout with The Age of Shadows (South Korea, 2016, not rated, with subtitles), a sprawling spy thriller set in the underground resistance to the Japanese occupation of […]