Movie Review: “Warning: Do Not Play”

   Directed by Kim Jin-won, Warning: Do Not Play is our latest installment in the South Korean Sunday catalog, and is currently available on the Shudder streaming service, branding itself a Shudder Exclusive film. The feature was released…

Movie Review: “Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum”

   In my desire to offer diversity of flavor on Readers Digested, something I knew I had to do was step out of my usual preferences for what I watch. When…

Movie Review: “I Saw the Devil”

   Directed by Kim Jee-woon and written by Park Hoon-jung, I was looking forward to my chance to revisit and write about I Saw the Devil again. I had wrote about the film once prior back in 2014, but…

Movie Review: “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance”

   Something I have wanted to do for a while on Readers Digested is talk about South Korean cinema in a significant, expansive fashion. I appreciate and respect all of the writers who have…

Movie Review: “Snowpiercer”

   Snowpiercer is a 2013 science fiction action film based on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige by Jacques Lob, Benjamin Legrand, and Jean-Marc Rochette.    This is a film that has been on my radar for years now, but,…

Movie Review: “Parasite”

Reviews    The Academy Awards receive a lot of criticism and stigma in regards to elitism and exclusivity for what they nominate and subsequently award at the coveted Oscar ceremony. Whether…