2020 at the Podcast On Fire Network gets off to an animated, butt kicking and Oscar winning start. For your listening pleasure, you’ll find specials on Fist Of The North Star, Enter The Dragon and the 2020 Academy Awards Best Picture winner Parasite is discussed over at What’s Korean Cinema? A few more people know if it now and can answer the question. Click images or links below to access the shows! Continue reading Post ID 1854
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Latest trio of shows from the Podcast On Fire Network!
Due to computer issues, episodes have not been promoted on here during the Autumn but I do recommend going to podcastonfire.com and checking out the grand finale to The Ekin Hour, The Director’s Series is back and this time covers a filmmaking team and life partners in one. But am here to promote the year end shows, starting with the annual Podcast On Fire Christmas Special that features a chat session about writing books, making audio commentaries and the best out Of Korean cinema in 2019. Also on This Week In Sleaze, Charlie Cho turns into a dog and is forced to have sex with ghosts. It’s a Christmas… mircale? Click the images or links below to access the shows! Continue reading Post ID 1854
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What’s Korean Cinema? triple special at the Podcast On Fire Network!
What’s Korean Cinema? takes a trip back to the origin points of the Korean cinema new wave and one of its elite directors Kim Jee-woon as we discuss 1998’s The Quiet Family. It was also remade in Japan by Takashi Miike and we fast forward to a darkly comedic tale in 2015 in the form of Alice In Earnestland. Click images or links below to access the shows! Continue reading Post ID 1854
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Latest trio of shows at the Podcast On Fire Network!
Stephen Chow’s fantasy-romance-comedy Mermaid is reviewed on a new Podcast On Fire and What’s Korean Cinema? takes a look at a bunch of short films. One involves poo, some are brought to you by the biggest directors out of Korean cinema. Click images or links below to access the shows.
What’s Korean Cinema? 43 – Six Short Films
Podcast On Fire Network Bonus Episode 44: Three more Korean shorts!
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Latest trio of shows at the Podcast On Fire Network!
What’s Korean Cinema? breaks down a sparse directorial career and the huge and ongoing one of the Action Kid of Korean Cinema. Also, Lunar New Year fun from Hong Kong honoring comedies of old. Perhaps a bit too local for Westerners to get the joke? Click images or links below to access the shows.
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What’s Korean Cinema? x 2 and BMW Films + John Woo = 2 x Podcast On Fire
What’s Korean Cinema? talks of the one that started it all for most people: Shiri and Podcast On Fire goes vroom vroom as we take a look at the roster of shorts films from BMW that included entries by John Woo, Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee. Click the images below or links to access the shows! Continue reading Post ID 1854
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Review: Ninja Operation 5: Godfather The Master (1986)
IFD and Joseph Lai raid Korean cinema for gangster-stuff and finds a hit album by A-ha that has ninja written all over it.
Full, written review available at sogoodreviews.com.
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Latest trio of Podcast On Fire Network shows!
What’s Korean Cinema? does dual episodes that includes content on small, gentle dramas, discussion of meeting both actor Choi Min-sik and one of the most comercially viable directors out of the South in the 80s. Also, Podcast On Fire concludes the ‘Aces Go Places’-series and Corey Yuen does girls with guns for the new millenium. Click images or links below to access the shows! Continue reading Post ID 1854
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Review: The Great Escape From Women’s Prison (1976)
South Korea and Taiwan bond over Women In Prison-movies… for like the third time in 1976.
Full, written review available at sogoodreviews.com.