Sometimes a film ends and you’re left sitting in your seat, unable to move, speechless and in shock.
Luc Besson
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Lockout
I know exactly what a Besson production will mean: high-concept action rendered as a high-octane cartoon in live-action, with a severe chance for martial arts. The French filmmaker’s name equals a style equals a brand. His aesthetic appears even when he doesn’t direct. His creative stamp supersedes all. And so it is again with Lockout, […]
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The Man from Nowhere
In writer/director Lee Jeong-Beom’s “The Man From Nowhere,” that’s a dilapidated apartment building of misery, where Tae-shik (Won Bin, “Mother”) glares from under his unkempt hair and generally keeps to himself. Doesn’t have a point of view, knows not what he’s going to do. Then he meets So-mi (Kim Sae-Ron), the cute little waif next […]