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fromwww.theguardian.com
2 days ago

I swapped England for Seoul after watching a Korean teen drama and found myself cast in a K-pop video

Discovering South Korean culture through a Mandarin homework mishap led to a deep passion for the language and its entertainment.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 days ago

There's no shortage of terrifying technology': how AI became TV drama's new go-to villain

AI is portrayed as a powerful and dangerous tool in modern surveillance and military operations.
fromInverse
3 days ago

How An Eerie New Thriller Revolutionizes The Video Game Movie

Kawamura found ways to give Exit 8 an emotional center that the game lacked while still capturing the uncanny experience of walking down the seemingly endless tiled hallway.
Independent films
Film
fromDefector
3 days ago

'The Drama' Has More Going For It Than A Provocative Twist | Defector

Kristoffer Borgli uses dark humor and controversy to engage audiences and promote his films.
Music production
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks ago

The nightmarish sounds of Squid Game composer Jung Jae-il: Having no identity very much defines my identity'

Jung Jae-il's unique composition style blends familiar sounds with unsettling elements, exemplified in the haunting theme of Squid Game.
Film
fromInverse
1 week ago

Bong Joon-Ho Just Revealed His Surprising Next Project

Bong Joon-ho is developing an animated film titled Ally, exploring themes of friendship and courage through the journey of a piglet squid.
Independent films
fromThe Independent
1 week ago

Hugely underrated 2026 film added to streaming

'Crime 101' is an underrated heist thriller featuring strong performances, particularly from Halle Berry and Mark Ruffalo, now available for streaming.
fromEngadget
1 week ago

An immersive 'Black Mirror Experience' is launching in Montreal

The Black Mirror Experience is an interactive virtual reality experience that blends physical space and VR, designed to blur the lines of fiction and reality in which you become the main character.
Television
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 week ago

From the phone to the plex: why TV shows are turning into movies

Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man achieved over 25 million views on Netflix in three days, showcasing the shift from cinema to streaming.
Television
fromEsquire
2 weeks ago

Why Is Horror TV So Complicated Right Now?

Modern horror films have become overly complicated, straying from classic survival rules established in the 1996 film Scream.
Independent films
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Just Released An Eerie Psychological Thriller Like No Other

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Chime explores modern terrors through a ringing sound that incites violence, reflecting societal issues and psychological pressures.
#academy-awards
Television
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

'The Americans' Is Getting The K-Drama Treatment

The Americans is being remade as The Koreans, set in 1990s South Korea with North Korean spies as the main characters.
fromThe Independent
2 weeks ago

The King's Warden: Highest-grossing film in South Korea set for global release

The King's Warden has rewritten box-office benchmarks, earning over £70m to become the top-grossing film in the country's history, according to The Korea Herald.
Independent films
Music production
fromVulture
4 weeks ago

The Oscars Playing Off the KPop Demon Hunters Team Sucked

The Oscars abruptly cut off the 'Golden' winners' speech with an aggressive orchestra swell, prioritizing time management over celebrating their achievement despite allocating excessive time to entertainment segments.
#duffer-brothers
fromInverse
2 weeks ago
Television

Netflix Just Quietly Released The Twistiest Horror Series Of The Year

The Duffer Brothers' new series offers a shocking twist on marriage, blending horror with dark humor and a supernatural element.
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago
Television

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen: the Duffer brothers' horror series is absolutely terrifying

The new series by the Duffer brothers combines horror elements with a wedding setting, creating an unsettling atmosphere filled with eerie occurrences.
Television
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

Netflix Just Quietly Released The Twistiest Horror Series Of The Year

The Duffer Brothers' new series offers a shocking twist on marriage, blending horror with dark humor and a supernatural element.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen: the Duffer brothers' horror series is absolutely terrifying

The new series by the Duffer brothers combines horror elements with a wedding setting, creating an unsettling atmosphere filled with eerie occurrences.
Television
fromThe Atlantic
2 weeks ago

Is Binge-Watching TV Really a Pastime?

Binge-watching television has become a prevalent pastime in America, but it can lead to negative psychological effects like anxiety and depression.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
4 weeks ago

South Korea celebrates miracle' Oscar wins for KPop Demon Hunters

KPop Demon Hunters won two Academy Awards, becoming a cultural milestone that demonstrates South Korea's growing global artistic influence and the international recognition of Korean aesthetics and culture.
fromThe Verge
1 month ago

KPop Demon Hunters is getting a sequel, obviously.

Netflix's smash-hit, Oscar-nominated animated film KPop Demon Hunters is returning for a sequel, with the fictional Korean girl group HUNTR/X coming back to lay down pop hits and smash evil boybands (and/or other demons). Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans will once again direct their first project in an exclusive multiyear writing and directing partnership with Netflix.
Independent films
Film
fromPsychology Today
4 weeks ago

Hollywood Is Dead: We Must Fight to Save the True Magic

Technological advancement in filmmaking has eliminated scarcity and bottlenecks that once created awe, diminishing the magic of cinema through abundance rather than enhancing it.
Television
fromEsquire
3 weeks ago

Netflix Swears That Its Shows Don't Repeat the Plot Over and Over Again

Netflix executives direct creators to repeat plot points for distracted viewers, though the company denies this practice despite evidence in their own shows.
Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

Netflix's Biggest Surprise Hit Of 2025 Is Officially Getting A Sequel

KPop Demon Hunters became a cultural phenomenon, prompting a Netflix sequel announcement with directors returning and a multiyear deal for additional animated films.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

KPop Demon Hunters sequel confirmed at Netflix: This is only the beginning'

I feel immense pride as a Korean film-maker that the audience wants more from this Korean story and our Korean characters. There's so much more to this world we have built and I'm excited to show you. This is only the beginning.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

Eric Nam Gets Revenge on Rob in His New Music Video

I'm gonna have some really good music to put out after this. All those heady emotions he encountered in Scotland - obsession, treachery, heartbreak - are great fuel for writing pop music. Nam's first single in two years, "How the Fire Started," starts with "You never gave a damn about me until I had something you needed" - a message to Rob if there ever was one.
Music production
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Wouldn't life be easier if I were white?': inside a provocative race-swap body horror

It was the first time I felt genuinely unsafe here, she says. Alongside a growing fear, childhood memories resurfaced—the internal and external racism and the exhaustion of never quite fitting in. I moved to Australia when I was seven and didn't speak English—it was a tough time for me, she admits. And then there was one particular recurring thought. There were many times when I'd wake up as a teenager and think to myself: Wouldn't life be easier if I were white?
Film
#journalism-funding
Television
fromEngadget
1 month ago

KPop Demon Hunters is officially getting a sequel

Netflix and Sony Pictures Animation announced a sequel to KPop Demon Hunters, their most-watched movie of all time, with original directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans returning to direct.
Independent films
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

'Will change your life': 'Sinners' blends blues, horror and heart

'Sinners' is a supernatural vampire film set in 1930s Mississippi featuring Michael B. Jordan in a dual role as twin brothers, blending blues culture with horror and exploring themes of community, immortality, and redemption.
Film
fromKotaku
1 month ago

Netflix Finally Confirms KPop Demon Hunters 2

Netflix announces an exclusive multiyear partnership with co-directors Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans to develop a K-pop Demon Hunters sequel and multiple animation projects.
#netflix
Artificial intelligence
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Requiem for a film-maker: Darren Aronofsky's AI revolutionary war series is a horror

An AI-generated short series about the American Revolutionary War attempts photorealism but results in unsettling, low-quality, uncanny visuals that harm the dramatic intent.
fromVulture
1 month ago

We're Getting a VIP Version of Squid Game: The Challenge

According to a Netflix synopsis, the celebrity VIPs will be "raising the stakes in a brand new game" that will "put their wit, strategy, and skillset to the ultimate test." For now, it's unclear if 456 non-famous people will still be involved in some sort of VIP-versus-player setup.
Television
fromInverse
1 month ago

Netflix Just Quietly Released The Most Creative Sci-Fi Thriller Of The Year

I was floating around this idea in my head, I knew I wanted to tell a story about the last 24 hours of the simulated mission as part of the Army Ranger selection program. Then I had this horrific nightmare where I was being stalked in a forest with rain and lightning, and I just saw the foot of this giant metallic beast, and it was stalking me, and it had this laser that was sweeping over.
Film
fromVulture
1 month ago

The 14 Best Movies and TV Shows to Watch This Weekend

Melling plays a shy young man, Colin, who meets a hot biker, Ray (Skarsgård); the two sweetly and awkwardly develop a BDSM relationship as Colin starts to grasp on to what he really wants from his life.
Television
fromFast Company
2 months ago

Why a Korean film exec is betting big on AI

"The CEO said: Koreans don't do sci-fi," Park recalls. "It's a Hollywood thing. The budgets are too big. It doesn't really make sense. It will never look real."
Film
fromAnOther
2 months ago

Park Chan-wook on His "Bitter" Black Comedy, No Other Choice

At the narrative midpoint, pathetic protagonist Yoo Man-su ( Lee Byung-hun) - also a hobbying horticulturist with a bonsai mag subscription - arrives at the home of a man he deems a rival for one of the only paper jobs on the market. He wields a pistol concealed inside several oven gloves, intending to kill vinyl enthusiast Goo Beom-mo (Lee Sung-min) as a means of levelling the playing field.
Film
fromBusiness Insider
2 months ago

Love the work, hate the slaps: Creators and fans wrestle with the dark side of the micro drama boom

"Bound by Honor," billed as a "top series" on ReelShort, opens with a young woman being drugged and coerced into marriage. In "Divorced at the Wedding Day," a "popular" pick on DramaBox, a pregnant widow is whipped and pushed onto broken glass at an engagement party before being locked up in a crate. ReelShort and Disney-backed DramaBox are the market leaders in the rising category of micro dramas, made-for-mobile soaps that feature fast-paced action and wild plots.
Television
fromAnOther
2 months ago

Park Chan-wook on His "Bitter" Black Comedy, No Other Choice

At the narrative midpoint, pathetic protagonist Yoo Man-su ( Lee Byung-hun) - also a hobbying horticulturist with a bonsai mag subscription - arrives at the home of a man he deems a rival for one of the only paper jobs on the market. He wields a pistol concealed inside several oven gloves, intending to kill vinyl enthusiast Goo Beom-mo (Lee Sung-min) as a means of levelling the playing field.
Film
fromRoger Ebert
2 months ago

Aim Your Rage at the Right Target: Park Chan-wook and Lee Byung-hun on "No Other Choice" | Interviews | Roger Ebert

Sam-nyun-sang sets a cultural three-year minimum for mourning; Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice links grief and identity collapse to desperate, violent responses to job loss.
fromConsequence
1 month ago

Stream On This Week: A New Michelle Yeoh Short and a Ciaran Hinds Recommendation!

Welcome to the latest issue of Stream On, the weekly newsletter from Consequence that answers the eternally confounding question: What films and TV shows should you be watching? (Subscribe here!) We're looking at all the new and recent releases from Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, Prime Video, Paramount+, Peacock, HBO Max, and more for ideas - not to mention a Blast From the Past and streaming suggestions from this week's special guest: Midwinter Break star Ciarán Hinds!
Television
Film
fromVulture
2 months ago

Why Are So Many Movies About Kidnappings Right Now?

Contemporary hostage films use captivity to interrogate power imbalances, allowing marginalized figures to confront untouchable elites and reflect wider social anxieties.
#thriller
fromBustle
2 months ago
Television

'Vanished' Starts Sweet, Then Drops You Into A Twist-Heavy Mystery You'll Devour

fromBustle
2 months ago
Television

'Vanished' Starts Sweet, Then Drops You Into A Twist-Heavy Mystery You'll Devour

Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Eternally spellbinding': the TV shows that baffle you but you can't get enough of

Catterick, Monkey Dust, The OA, and Mrs Davies deliver surreal, darkly comic, and increasingly bizarre narratives blending crime, dreamlike animation, sci‑fi, and oddball humor.
fromInverse
2 months ago

35 Years Later, A Terrifying Martin Scorsese Classic Is Getting A Massive Update

The 10-episode series will premiere on the streamer in June 2026, but Apple unveiled a first look during the Apple TV press day this week. There, Antosca teased his plans for the new Cape Fear alongside its stars, Amy Adams and The Conjuring's Patrick Wilson. The duo play a pair of happily-married lawyers whose idyllic life immediately unravels when Max Cady (Bardem), the notorious serial murderer they convicted years prior, is released from prison.
Television
#k-pop
Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

'How To Make A Killing' Is A Screwy Social Satire That Falls Just Short Of The Mark

How to Make a Killing follows Becket Redfellow murdering wealthy relatives in a tonal blend of black comedy and satire, buoyed by Glen Powell's charm.
fromThe Verge
2 months ago

Tattle TV has turned a Hitchcock classic into a vertical video 'microdrama'

Though Tattle TV - a UK-based streaming platform created by filmmakers Philip McGoldrick and Marina Elderton - features a reality dating series about dog-owners and a modern drama about a female MMA fighter, the company's latest debut is a vertically-oriented edit of Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog. Similar to other microdrama apps, Tattle TV splits all of its content into short segments that can be purchased individually using an in-app currency (Tattle Coins).
Film
Film
fromThe Atlantic
2 months ago

Zombie Movies Should Always Be This Hopeful

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple presents a hopeful vision of postapocalyptic humanity, subverting the genre's expectation of survivors preying on one another.
Film
fromInverse
2 months ago

'Dead Man's Wire' Proves Gus Van Sant Movies Still Matter

Dead Man's Wire is a taut, timely crime thriller and strong Gus Van Sant comeback dramatizing a 1977 three-day hostage standoff with crowd-pleasing energy.
fromSlate Magazine
2 months ago

It's Sydney Sweeney's Hand That Rocks the Cradle in The Housemaid

Podcasting is a privilege as Steve is joined by Dan Kois and Rebecca Onion to unpack and cackle at the domestic thriller schlockfest The Housemaid. Sydney Sweeney and Amanda Seyfried star in the Paul Fieg-directed tale of two women facing off to rule the McMansion roost. Next, Seyfried proves she's got the range as the panel joins the chorus appraising her performance in The Testament of Ann Lee, the epic tone poem and musical biopic about the founder of the Shakers directed by Mona Fastvold.
Film
Film
fromInsideHook
2 months ago

In Defense of Movie Sex Scenes

Onscreen sex scenes can be narratively essential but are often gratuitous, harmful, or disruptive when objectifying participants, reinforcing stereotypes, or damaging a film's flow.
fromVulture
2 months ago

KPop Demon Hunters Was the Most-Streamed Movie of 2025

KPop Demon Hunters climbed up, up, up on the streaming charts over the last seven months or so, enough that the Netflix animated film has earned another award in its race for world domination: According to newly released Nielsen numbers, it was officially the most-streamed movie of 2025. The film notched 20.5 billion viewing minutes in the U.S. - and if you do some quick math to account for its run time, that equates to approximately 207 million full streams of the movie.
Film
Film
fromLos Angeles Times
2 months ago

'KPop: Demon Hunters' stays 'Golden' with two Oscar nominations

KPop Demon Hunters earned two Oscar nominations for animated feature and original song, marking mainstream Academy recognition for K-pop and Korean-diaspora musicians.
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