Song Sae-byeok – Heroic Cinema https://www.heroic-cinema.com The guide to Asian movies in Australia Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:47:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 18894642 Special Delivery (2022) https://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/special-delivery-2022/ Fri, 09 Sep 2022 12:47:25 +0000 https://www.heroic-cinema.com/?post_type=reviews&p=20168 It’s that time of year again. KOFFIA rolls into town, offering the chance to see some fresh films without knowing much about what’s coming. Special Delivery reminded me once more that South Korean movies, even broad crowd pleasers like this, are consistently surprising.

The movie’s forty-five second trailer sells itself on the car chasing and other action, but elements of a lot of other genres — jokes, jump scares, melodrama and more — are along for the ride as well. … (read more)

]]> 20168 My Ordinary Love Story (2014) https://www.heroic-cinema.com/reviews/my-ordinary-love-story-2014/ Sun, 16 Aug 2015 00:53:15 +0000 http://www.heroic-cinema.com/?post_type=reviews&p=12879 My Ordinary Love Story is screening at this year’s Korean Film Festival in Australia. See the KOFFIA website for more details!

My Ordinary Love Story is not your ordinary love story. It starts off as one, but soon takes you on an unexpectedly wild ride along with the film’s main couple, Eun-jin and Hyeon-suk.

Eun-jin is an almost-30 year old woman who has yet to find the right man; that is, until she meets the plain but loving Hyeon-suk. The … (read more)

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