What's Korean Cinema? (Podcast on Fire Network)
What’s Korean Cinema? asks the question, possibly doesn’t answer it but gathers a cast of experts for an in-depth look at defining works of Korean cinema…even North!
Episodes
April 6, 2024 • 55 mins
Kenny B and Paul Quinn discuss a trio of recent Korean films that can be found on streaming or digital, on blu ray, and on the cinema screens: Badland Hunters, The Chaser and Exhuma. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/Badland Hunters review. 21m 23s – The Chaser review. 38m 25s – Exhuma review. Contact the […]
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March 23, 2024 • 82 mins
The Korean war movie gets spooky, in 2004’s R-Point. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/R-Point background. 49m 49s – R-Point review. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or X (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to our iTunes feed. What’s Korean Cinema? on Spotify Kenny B’s Letterboxd Hangul Celluloid. Erro...
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September 23, 2023 • 75 mins
Kenny B and Paul Quinn discuss a trio of recent Korean films that can be found on streaming or digital, on blu ray, and on the cinema screens: Project Wolf Hunting, Midnight and The Moon. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/Project Wolf Hunting 25m 11s – Midnight 50m 46s – The Moon Contact the show […]
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March 4, 2023 • 78 mins
Before there was a sassy girl, the ever so luminous Jun Ji-hyun starred in Il Mare, about a mailbox that is a portal to two years earlier. Going back to Korean cinema in the year 2000, with Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/reception/on Jun Ji-hyun 28m 25s […]
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September 24, 2022 • 80 mins
Dressed up as Silence Of The Lambs and Se7en through grim findings of body parts and constant rain, Korean cinema of 1999 heads into the serial killer film with Tell Me Something. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/reception. 25m 30s – Director Chang Hoon-yun’s films. 28m […]
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August 6, 2022 • 71 mins
Multiple romance stories are being gradually told. One for us. One by and before the characters in 1998’s Art Museum By The Zoo. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/reception/on director Lee Jeong-hyang. 26m 58s – Shum Eun-ha biography and discussion. 37m 39s – The remaining films […]
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February 26, 2022 • 78 mins
After a 11 year hiatus, the Whispering Corridors series is back with its 6th entry. Containing horror that leads into hints of great sadness and insanity connected to friendship and South Korea’s turbulent history, we’ll tell you all about it discussing Whispering Corridors 6: The Humming. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running […]
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December 18, 2021 • 105 mins
The whispers in the corridor do not stop and the Ghost School Horror series out of Korea is on its fourth and fifth entry: 2005’s Voice and 2009’s A Blood Pledge. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/series box office, notes on the director 27m 17s – […]
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September 4, 2021 • 89 mins
The Monkey’s Paw and ballet collide in the third Ghost School Horror entry. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/literary background 22m 40s – Notes on the director, box office 37m 13s – Wishing Stairs review. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) […]
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July 10, 2021 • 93 mins
The Whispering Corridors-series had wind in its sails commercially but rather than do a year later in the same all-girls school follow-up, the makers decided to create a thread for the series based on similar setting and supernatural elements but not story. So for 1999’s Memento Mori, spooky and heart-breaking stuff is back but also […]
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June 26, 2021 • 75 mins
New wave Korean cinema of the late 90s and onwards logged iconic imagery, settings and atmosphere. Whether through blockbuster action, exploration of vengeance, relationships between North and South Korea at the DMZ but in one of the film industries OG years, at the start of a re-birth we find spooky stuff set in a school […]
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April 11, 2021 • 94 mins
Korean cinema throws their hat into the J-horror ring… by making a Ring of their own. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/background on the novel, Japanese film adaptations, reception of The Ring Virus and director 48m 44s – The Ring Virus review. Contact the show via email […]
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October 3, 2020 • 55 mins
The director of Volcano High goes back to school but throws out the fighty fighty stuff in favour of the psychological, teachers shouldn’t get romantically involved with students, erotic thriller stuff in Innocent Thing from 2014. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/Innocent Thing production notes, reception, […]
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September 12, 2020 • 71 mins
Korean cinema could probably do a violence in school exposé with the best of them but here priorities were a little bit different. Putting actors and stuntmen on wires to depict their martial arts powers as conflicts between teachers and students is brewing, in this episode we take a look at 2001’s Volcano High. With […]
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May 2, 2020 • 72 mins
Welcome to Haeundae. It’s going to be a wet vacation. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/Haeundae reception, discussion of director and cast. 43m 49s – Haeundae review. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to our iTunes feed. Show Links: […]
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April 18, 2020 • 70 mins
Outbreak or Contagion… Korean style. 2013’s Flu that’s up for review this episode. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Flu director Kim Sung-su discussion, production notes, reception. 32m 25s – Flu review. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to o...
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February 8, 2020 • 88 mins
Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite has opened in UK cinemas so Kenny B and Paul Quinn sit down to discuss the record breaking 2019 South Korean movie. The main discussion contains mild to medium spoilers and the chat after the outro music contain major spoilers. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro 20m 30s – Parasite review. 67m […]
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November 2, 2019 • 65 mins
Possibly your favourite actor out of Train To Busan takes on awfully stabby gangs in The Outlaws from 2017. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – The Outlaws true life background, release, director Kang Yoon-Sung and actor Ma Dong-Seok discussion. 32m 17s – The Outlaws review. Contact the show via […]
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October 26, 2019 • 64 mins
Let’s review Attack The Gas Station. Why? Just because. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Cellulouid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Attack The Gas Station background, production, cast and crew, release. 29m 08s – Attack The Gas Station review. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page and Facebook group or Twitter (@podcastonfire, @sogoodreviews) and SUBSCRIBE to our [R...
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July 20, 2019 • 76 mins
The unluckiest but most effecient woman in the world enters debt and when the world screws her over, she enters revenge-mode. It’s very funny but you should feel a bit ashamed if you do. This all takes place in the 2015 black comedy Alice In Earnestland from 2015. With Kenny B and Hangul Celluloid’s Paul Quinn. […]
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