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Jan 15, 2025 | 
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Considering it’s inherently a movie about mundane suburban life, Pitfall doesn’t hesitate to pull the rug out from under its characters as well as its audience. Jumping right in, it’s set in your run-of-the-mill post-war era, featuring a bored insurance man, his lovely wife, and the ins and outs of their days. Then comes a femme fatale and a covetous private eye who end up spurring a moral spiral heading for disaster.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
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If there's one point that The Man Standing Next drills on, it’s that power makes people do wild things. The movie itself provides an intriguing look at the last days of President Park's (Lee Sung-min) regime narrated through the points of view of the men who built and destroyed it. Central to the story is Kim Gyu-pyeong (Lee Byung-hun), head of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
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If there’s one thing that Bad City proves, it’s that sometimes justice doesn’t play fair. Set in the heart of a city practically rotten with corruption, the thriller proves that sometimes the people meant to uphold the law are just as sinister as the ones breaking it. The story itself is centered on disgraced former detective, Torada (Hitoshi Ozawa), who’s abruptly released from prison to take down a powerful businessman rooted in organized crime.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
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Before Hwang Dong-hyuk created the global megahit that is Netflix’s Squid Game, he directed the charming Miss Granny. Off the bat, the fantasy comedy-drama asks a compelling question— what happens if a late-life crisis comes with a soundtrack and the magical ability to hit the rewind button? The titular character here is a no-nonsense 74-year-old (played by Na Moon-hee) who finds herself trapped in her 20-year-old body (Shim Eun-kyung).
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
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It’s no secret that the name Chris Evans is synonymous with a certain star-spangled hero with a shield in hand. But long before he became the Marvel golden boy, Evans stepped into a much grittier role in the legal thriller, Puncture. The name alone is ample proof that it isn’t the clean-cut superhero — this is Evans raw and unpolished, delivering a performance that feels more human than heroic.
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Jan 11, 2025 | 
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As the saying goes, love is a battlefield, and that’s the concept on which The Hidden Face builds its twisted narrative. The 2011 Colombian-Spanish thriller takes your run-of-the-mill love triangle and transforms it into something more sinister and, dare we say, clever. In essence, it doesn’t waste time with your average love-gone-wrong plot. At the start, we have a man grieving over his girlfriend’s mysterious disappearance.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
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Zombies and comedy are two genres that rarely miss when done right, just take a look at everything from Zombieland to Shaun of the Dead. Then there’s Final Cut, which takes a step beyond doing it right by flipping the actual concept of zombie movies on its head. Directed by Michel Hazanavicius, the same brilliant mind that brought us The Artist, this French remake of the Japanese cult hit One Cut of the Dead is somewhat of a cheeky love letter to low-budget filmmaking.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
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What do you get when a tech genius, a relentless cop, and a charming con man collide? The answer lies in the 2016 heist thriller,Master. The South Korean film isn't your typical collage of action and sleight of hand. It gives viewers front-row seats to a slick takedown of greed and corruption wrapped in an entertaining package. Besides delivering layers of twists, Master thrives on them bringing an electric narrative to life via the acting chops of Lee Byung-hun, Kang Dong-won, and Kim Woo-bin.
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Jan 2, 2025 | 
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It’s daunting and borderline terrifying to think that sometimes the most dangerous criminals aren’t lurking in the shadows but hiding in plain sight. On the Job doesn’t just conceptualize this, it transforms this premise into something most people won’t see coming. The 2013 Filipino thriller combines straight-shooting realism with a unique central narrative, as prisoners turned hitmen are secretly allowed to leave their cells to carry out assassinations for the corrupt elite.
