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Snowpiercer has yet to pierce the shores of America due to the infighting between Harvey Weinstein and South Korean film director and screenwriter Bong Joon-ho, with the former wanting to give the critically acclaimed apocalyptic thriller the ‘western treatment’. Who can blame him? When things get ‘westernised’ they tend to suck, just look at the abysmal 47 Ronin, something I …

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We’ve seen plenty of TV shows rebooted in the past. Dallas, Battlestar Galactica and Beverly Hills 90210 are just a few such examples. And it looks like that trend won’t stop any time soon, as network exectuives have their eyes set on bringing back a certain famed whodunnit-solver. Ladies and gentlemen of a different generation, prepare for the return of …

Michael B. Jordan (no, not the NBA legend/wannabe baseball player/Looney Toons co-star) is a name you need to get used to hearing quite a bit. The Chronicle star has been popping up on just about every single shortlist in Hollywood lately that asks for somebody possessed of a Y-chromosome. Most recently (and infamously depending on your level of racial prejudice) he was …

Unlike their most famous Northern neighbour, the trio of big name South Korean directors making their English language debuts this year – Park Chan-Wook, Jee Woo-Kim and Bong Joon-Ho – all look like they’re actually going to blow up. In a good way, of course. And as a massive sci-fi geek and a huge fan of his 2006 monster movie …

The Korean invasion of Hollywood is in full swing, with Park Chan-Wook’s opening shot, Stoker, already racking up the accolades. The second salvo, Kim Ji-Woon’s The Last Stand, may have misfired a bit (and by a bit I mean a lot!) at the box office but it was still a reasonably fun film. The third prong of this attack though, The Host  director Bong …

Despite getting praised for his 2006 creature feature, The Host, Korean director Joon-Ho Bong is not exactly a household name. But that might change with his next project,  Snow Piercer, especially after now adding Octavia Spencer to the cast of the indie sci-fi thriller. Ms. Spencer is currently riding a wave of attention for her Oscar nominated performance in The …