Marrying the Mafia II: Above the Law and Below the Belt

I watched Marrying the Mafia II, not because I liked the first one but because I wanted to see actress Kim Jung-eum do her weirdo act again. That curiosity had to be shelved though since Kim's role this time is minimal if memorable. In truth, Jeong Yong-ki's MTM II isn't an extension of the first movie; it just reuses the same formula with a stronger cast, tighter storyline, and funnier gags. What happens this time is more or less the same: Two pretty people on different sides of the law fall in love forcing one to change his ways if church bells are going to chime. Here it's a gangster (Shin Hyeon-jun) gaga for a female prosecutor (Kim Won-hie). Far from getting her to marry into the mob, he's doing all he can to clean up his act and marry out of it. Before he gets to the wedding aisle, however, you'll get plenty of giggles from jokes based on Big Big breast cream, a padded penis protector, and his outlandish mother (Kim Su-mi) who runs the syndicate. Many of the devices from the first film are repeated (the observatory courtship, the botched serenade, the numbskull brothers) but what felt stale the first time, feels room temperature for take two. Maybe by Marrying the Mafia III, it will feel inventive!

Heart is... (Movie - 2006)

cast : Yoo Seung-ho(유승호), Kim Hyang-ki (김향기)
Directed by Oh Dal-gyoon (오달균)

Screenplay by Sin Dong-ik (신동익)

•Drama
97min Release date in South Korea : 2006/10/26

Alternative title : Hearty Paws


Ini film sedih bgt. Tengtang persahabatan kakak beradik dengan seekor anjing bernama "Ma-eum". Kakak beradik itu tidak memiliki orang tua. Mereka hanya tinggal berdua bersama anjingnya. Suatu hari si adik tiba-tiba meninggal karena kecelakaan. Sejak di tinggal si adik, Si Kakak membuang Maeum karena ketika melihat anjing itu dia akan teringat sang adik. Ia pun pergi ke kota seorang diri untuk mencari Ibunya dan mengabarkan kematian adiknya. Ternyata setelah bertemu sang Ibu, Ibunya tidak terlihat senang bertemu dengannya, bahkan ibunya berencana pergike luar negri untuk menetap di sana bersama kekasihnya.
Si kakakpun akhirnya terlantar di kota besar dan berteman dengan para anak jalanan. Ia pun bertemu kembali dengan maeum, anjung yang dulu pernah di buangnya.

Death Bell (Movie - 2008)

Directed by Director Chang (창감독)
Screenplay by Director Chang (창감독), Kim Eun-kyeong (김은경)
•Fear
88min | Release date in South Korea : 2008/08/06
Cast :
Lee Beom-soo 이범수 As Hwang Chang-wook, teacher (교사, 황창욱)
Yoon Jeong-hee 윤정희 As Choi So-yeong, English teacher (영어교사, 최소영)
Nam Gyoo-ri 남규리 As I-na (여고생, 이나)
Kim Beom 김범 As Kang Hyeon (남고생, 강현)

Alternative title : "Gosa", "Midterm of Blood"


Film ini bergenre horor. Aku ngebahas film ini karena film ini cukup menegangkan dan yang paling penting adalah salah satu pemainnya adalah Kim Bum. hehehe...

Crita ini bersetting di dalam sekolah. Siswa siswi di sekolah itu sedang mengikuti ujian, di tengah-tengah ujian tiba-tiba layar televisi yang ada di depan kelas menunjukkan gambar yang mengerikan. Di layar itu terlihat jelas salah satu teman mereka sedang di kurung di sebuah akuarium kaca yang secara perlahan-lahan air masuk ke dalam akuarium tersebut. Di akuarium tersebut terdapat tulisan berupa soal yang harus diselesaikan dalam batas waktu yang telah ditentukan. Syaratnya adalah mereka semua yang ada di dalam sekolah harus dapat menyelesaikan soal tersebut sebelum waktunya dan tidak diperbolehkan keluar dari sekolah, klo melanggar aturan tersebut, akan ada lebih banyak korban yang berjatuhan.

Akhirnya soal pertama tidak dapat terselesaikan dan siswi yang berada di dalam akuarium tersebut tidak terselamatkan, seorang guru yang berusaha keluar dari sekolah tewas mengenaskan. Selanjutnya muncul soal-soal berikutnya di sertai bunyi bell. Para siswa dan guru berusaha memecahkan soal-soal tersebut. Ternyata jawaban-jawaban dari soal yang diberikan perlahan menguak suatu misteri kematian seorang siswa teladan beberapa tahun lalu. Dapatkah mereka semua menjawab soal-soal itu, dan sebenarnya apa yang terjadi pada siswi yang mati beberapa tahun itu? Jawabannya nonton aja sendiri ya...




Ini trailernya :

Marrying the Mafia: Lessons in How to Be the Bride of Frankenstein

You'd think a jopok comedy that spawned a few sequels would be pretty good. And if it ended up being that year's most highly attended flick in South Korea then it would have to be really funny, too, even if the jokes were all kind of dumb, no? I mean how bad can it be? Which brings us to Jeong Heung-sun's Marrying the Mafia, a head-scratcher that is neither awful nor awesome. It's a stale confection at best, something you might call sweet but never delectable. It wouldn't merit your time at all if it weren't for actress Kim Jung-eum who plays the female lead, a mobster's daughter suddenly headed for an arranged marriage. Like a show-and-tell of extreme performance, Kim's acting is all wrongs that add up to right: As she struggles with both her white collar fiance (Jeong Jun-ho) and her three thug brothers, she overly indicates instead of acts so that perky, sad and annoyed all come across as neurotic, psychotic, and deranged. That she's surrounded by boilerplate interpretations that can be alternately harmless and charmless works to her advantage. With each glare, grin, and goofball glance, she's like the kid in class who's constantly making funny faces. You may find her irritating at first but eventually she will make you laugh.

Hansel & Gretel: The Babies of Beelzebub

Childhood, smilehood. Put it that way, and it all sounds so cloyingly sweet, doesn't it? Well, it's just that kind of sickly preciosity that Yim Pil-sung is scrutinizing in his K-horror remake of the Grimm fairy tale. His Hansel & Gretel is no faithful adaptation, however, dear reader, for despite the title, there are three kids, not two, and the carnivorous witch is long gone leaving the children to lure unsuspecting adults to that cozy-looking house in the woods. Babysitters, beware! The oldest child (Eun Won-jae) has diabolical tantrums; the middle one (Sim eun-kyung) struggles with weird sexual boundaries; and the baby (Jin Ji-hee) vacillates between creepy and cute -- as all tykes tend to do. Since mom and dad can't set proper boundaries in absentia, their latest adopted uncle (Cheon Jeong-myeong) must take on the duties of childcare which here means balancing genuine affection with a growing realization that these three are akin to Satan's spawn. When an ungodly deacon (Park Hee-soon) enters the scene, things go from bad to worse. Suddenly, siding with sociopathic delinquents seems like the lesser of two evils. Wicked comes in all sizes and age groups evidently. Sometimes, you should stab indiscriminately. And run!

The King and The Clown: A Daisy Chain of Tops and Bottoms

Indigent circus performers strike it rich. Now that's a cause for celebration, right? Sure, it is. But for some lucky clowns, it's also a cause for consternation. You see, when this particular tightrope walker (Kam Woo-seong) and his cross-dressing sidekick (Lee Jun-gi) find favor with a somewhat crazy, petulantly sadistic emperor (Jeong Jin-yeong), they also find themselves drawn into more than one troubled love triangle and some life-threatening political intrigue. But can the rope-walking acrobat help caring so deeply about his cross-dressing cohort? And can the cross-dresser help inspiring lusty thoughts in that kooky king? And, for that matter, can the royal courtesan (Kang Seong-yeon) help being jealous of that role-playing pretty boy who's also good with puppets and has a unique calligraphic style? No. No. No. A magnificently told tale based on a true story from the 16th century Chosun dynasty, The King and the Clown is a topnotch, romantic costume drama that knows when to be comic even if it's headed for tragedy. The performances are uniformly excellent, right down to the minor characters. Needless to say, I'll be checking out other collaborations of director Lee Jun-ik and writer Choi Seok-hwan.

Yesterday: Tomorrow Is Looking Doubly Depressing Today

The year is 2020 and two kindred spirits (Kim Seung-woo and Kim Yunjin) raised during the 1980s are having a rough time of it. Consider the headaches, the memory lapses, and their inability to have a sparkling conversation. A desperate, combined search for their father and a serial killer (Choi Min-Su) isn't about to make their lives easier. And despite all the years that have passed for them (and for us), tomorrow looks suspiciously like yesterday. Cops still fire machine guns, fat girls still sing in discos, and everyone still loves their cellphones -- which now come with constant advertising! In this all-too-familiar future, the most screenworthy character is secondary, a tough lady cop named May (Kim Seon-a) who likes to shoot firearms in a short sporty haircut and a tight-fitting leather tanktop. Maybe in some alternate universe, audiences will get to learn her storyline too and movies -- like video games -- will come with multiple plots we can follow and not just the one chosen by director-writer Jeon Yun-su. For today, we were stuck with Yesterday, his middling scifi flick about three siblings drowning in a messed up gene pool. For something more buoyant, check out Jeon's delightful comedy Le Grand Chef.