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Don't feed these links after midnight…

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[adrotate banner=”1″]I’m going to format these a little differently from now on, putting the links to other websites first and the news stories second, that way less good people get buried beneath mediocre news!

**Pre-Code watches the Calvacade!

**Forgotten Classics of Yesteryear goes 23 Skidoo!

**Turban Decay faces Zero Dark Thirty!

**Beth Loves Bollywood’s Beth Watkins stops by The Cultural Gutter to give tips on Using Fantasy To Be Better Than We Are In Real Life!

**Fist of B-List battles a Psycho Kickboxer!

**Blueprint: Review and the Weekend of Trash IX!

**Pulp Curry and Wallace Stroby give us the best 5 crime films you’ve never seen!

**Kyle Baker put up a whole ton of his comics for free!

**Check out the fantabulous art of Scott C., and feel guilty for the drawings you don’t recognize!

**This drawing of a teddy bear with a wooden sword protecting a girl from a giant monster has been optioned for a film starring The Rock. What you hear is the sound of a thousand people breaking out their sketch pads! You can thank Ted for this.

**The Rock is also Hercules in Brett Ratner’s Hercules!

**A remake of Romancing the Stone is a possibility. Because kids love a good Romancing the Stone flick…

**French action crime flick Point Blank is getting both a US and a Korean remake. The US version is rumored to be produced by Mark Wahlberg, while the Korean version will be directed by Juhn Jai-hong (a former protege of Kim Ki-duk)

**Speaking of Kim Ki-duk and his proteges, another one (Shin Yeon-shik) will be directing Rough Play, an action thriller Kim Ki-duk wrote and is producing. Boy band singer Lee Jun stars, he was also in Ninja Assassin. The plot deals with an actor who gets big overnight and the danger that entails.

**A Gremlins reboot is simmering once again.

And we’re outta here, until the next time we’re in here. Which will be soon.

The Man From Nowhere

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The Man From Nowhere

aka 아저씨 aka Ajeossi

2010
Written and directed by Lee Jeong-beom
The Man From Nowhere
Korea embarks on a tale of kidnapping and revenge, as a former special ops officer hunts down the men who kidnapped his young neighbor, the only person left he has a connection with. The travel embarks on a quest through the Korean underworld, dealing with organ trafficking, child slave labor, drug dealing, and identity theft. In the grand Korean tradition, things are non-compromising, with a bleak and desperate situation getting increasingly both as time goes on.
The Man From Nowhere
The Man From Nowhere is a good film to throw on for everyone disappointed with Taken 2. It takes the similar style of the original Taken (and also Man on Fire) and ramps it up. Cha Tae-sik becomes mixed up not only in the kidnapping, but with a turf war between different gangsters and the police who are trying to take everyone down. While the police often get in the way, they realize quicker than the arrogant gangsters that Cha Tae-sik is someone more dangerous than he appears.

The fights become increasingly more awesome and brutal. At first, all you see is breaking windows and an unconscious goon. Then you begin to see Tae-sik beating up small numbers of people. By the end, there is one of the best knife fights I have ever seen in a movie, and Tae-sik becomes a savage force of nature carving his way through the criminal empire.
The Man From Nowhere

Cha Tae-sik (Won Bin) – A former black ops officer who retired and runs a small pawn shop after the murder of his pregnant wife. Cha Tae-sik is withdrawn from society, his only real connection is So-mi, who practically inserts herself into his life due to her unfortunate home situation. When she’s kidnapped, Tae-sik stops at nothing to get her back.
So-mi (Kim Sae-ron) – Young outcast child who spends her free time around neighbor Cha Tae-sik because she has no friends and an absentee parent. Her mother is a heroin addict whose theft of drugs sets off the whole kidnapping situation. So-mi longs to do nail art, but she is too poor to afford most of the supplies, resorting to stealing it.
Man-seok (Kim Hee-won) – The de facto leader of a gang that includes his brother, they carve out their own criminal empire by double-crossing their former partners. Organizes all the horrible deeds done and sets up the bigger deals.
Jong-seok (Kim Sung-oh) – The most arrogant of the two brothers, is often wearing flashy clothes and is more likely to try to make a big show of how awesome he is. Is involved in more of the day to day operations than his brother. Kim Sung-oh is also in She is on Duty.
Ramrowan (Thanayong Wongtrakul) – Ramrowan is awesome, Western educated Thai gangster who is working for the Koreans for reasons unknown, who only speaks English for reasons unknown. He’s a great killer, cold and calculating, but has an honor code that is his and his alone instantly pics up that Cha Tae-sik is more than a simple pawn shop owner You get the feeling that Ramrowan could easily take over and be a boss, but he’d rather be an enforcer because he loves the job so much.

The Man From Nowhere
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Korea's got their own Infenal Affairs with New World

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[adrotate banner=”1″]Korea gets into the undercover cop movie business with New World/Sinsegye/신세계

Lee Jung-Jae plays an undercover detective who rises through the ranks of the local mafia, eventually becoming the number 2 guy beneath the newly installed boss. The detective then has to balance the mob boss who believes and trusts him versus his police superiors, who think of him nothing more than a pawn in their gang takedown. Hwang Jung-Min plays the mob boss, while Oldboy‘s Choi Min-Sik plays the police supervisor.

Park Hoon-Jung wrote and directs (he wrote I Saw the Devil, so this has a change of being good and grim!) And Choi Min-Sik is always awesome. It will be worth a watch!

See a preview trailer at AsianMediaWiki!

Choi Min-Sik

You cannot out act me, you can only get out of the way!

Kim Sun-A set for revenge flick The Five

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[adrotate banner=”1″]Kim Sun-A (She’s On Duty) returns to film with The Five (더 파이브 / Deo Paibeu), a revenge tale based on a popular webcomic called The 5ive Hearts by Jung Yeon-Sik. Kim Sun-A plays Eun-A, whose family was murdered by a serial killer, herself is paralyzed, and her life is destroyed. She rounds up four societal outcasts who need organ transplants (using her organs as collateral!) and sets off on her revenge plan. Comic creator Jung Yeon-Sik is slated to write and direct, and the comic is originally based on a movie script Jung wrote, so the booming web popularity helped this newcomer get a job!

via Asian Wiki

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Raunchy South Korean romantic comedy My PS Partner will spice up your wrong numbers!

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[adrotate banner=”1″]My PS Partner (나의 P.S. 파트너 aka Naui P.S. Pateuneo) is an upcoming Korean romantic comedy. A woman named Yoon Jung is attempting to spice up her boring five year long relationship attempts some phone sex with her man so he’ll get around to proposing. She accidentally dials the wrong number, reaching recently dumped Hyun Seung instead. Then hijinks ensue and the trailer is bleeped because of all that nasty language and stuff from the phone sexing. But most importantly, there is a line that goes across the curves of a woman’s body and also a lot of running. That’s important in phone sex. So I hear.

Kim Ah-Joong plays Yoon Jung, and Ji Sung plays Hyun Seung. Byun Sung-Hyun directs.

via AllKPop

My PS Partner

My PS Partner
My PS Partner

The Huntresses – upcoming Korean Female Three Muskateers flick!

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[adrotate banner=”1″]An action comedy filming now in Korea is The Huntresses (조선미녀 삼총사 – Joseonminyeo Samchongsa, which translates to The Joseon Beautiful Three Musketeers) It is a period piece and as you can see from the costume concept art above will have a stylized look.

Set in the Joseon Period, three beautiful musketeers fight against a powerful group who tries to overturn the royal family and gain absolute power. The leader of the Beautiful Three Musketeers is Jin-Ok (Ha Ji-Won), a smart and righteous woman. Hong-Dan (Kang Ye-Won) is the only married woman among the three women. Ga-Bi (Son Ga-In from Brown Eyed Girls) is the youngest among the musketeers and excels at fighting.

Ha Ji-Won’s Jin-Ok builds all sorts of unique weapons and is a master of disguise. Ga-In’s fight before talk character uses those weapons, including a yo-yo that has appeared in some publicity art. Oddly enough, that’s caused some people to freak out. Didn’t they see that episode of The Simpsons with the yo-yos? Kang Ye-Won’s married character is a throwing knife expert who can’t do housework and is the funny one. They are mentored by a character played by Go Chang-Suk, who is described as more comic relief. Their main rival will be played by heartthrob Joo Sang-Wook as Sa Hyun, a warrior with superb martial art skills.

Park Je-Hyun is directing, and filming has just started, thus the lack of real images at this time beyond a social media photo below.

Samchongsa is also what Charlie’s Angels was called in Korea, so you can probably figure out the vibe they are going for from that.

via Nate

The Huntresses

Ga-In

Son Ga-In


Kang Ye-Won

Kang Ye-Won


Ha Ji Won

Ha Ji-Won