Posts Tagged ‘Kim Min-hee’

Chungmuro/Film
Trailer and stills for conspiracy thriller Moby Dick
by | July 16, 2011 | 35 Comments
It’s a movie I had been waiting for… for almost a full year. I’ll probably have to wait that long till it hits us stateside, but conspiracy thriller Moby Dick has been out in theaters in Korea, and I sort of let it slip by me, with so many summer dramas on my plate. But... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Kim Min-hee and Lee Seon-kyun in new thriller
by | June 25, 2011 | 42 Comments
Three actors I love starring together in a thriller? Count me intrigued. Kim Min-hee (Moby Dick, Actresses), Jo Sung-ha (Romance Town, Sungkyunkwan Scandal), and Lee Seon-kyun (Arrest King, Petty Romance) have been cast as the leads in the upcoming film Train (working title, also called Help). It’s an adaptation of the novel Train by the... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Kim Min-hee in Moby Dick
by | September 26, 2010 | 15 Comments
Kim Min-hee (Love and Marriage, Goodbye Solo, Actresses) is slated to return to film in a production of…Moby Dick? What the…? Are people just running out of ideas? It turns out that Moby Dick is just a figurative title for an action-thriller involving an explosion, and the journalists who try to uncover the truth, going... More »


Celebrity News
Jang Dong-gun marries Go So-young
by | May 2, 2010 | 107 Comments
On May 2, Jang Dong-gun married fellow actress Go So-young, and given Jang’s status as one of Korea’s most popular (and most loved) actors, the wedding was pretty much the equivalent of a fancy awards ceremony red carpet. There were approximately 500 (!) guests in attendance. The wedding took place at Seoul’s Silla Hotel, which... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Actresses: Fake documentary or reality filmmaking?
by | December 8, 2009 | 41 Comments
I previously posted about the new movie Actresses, which stars six famous movie stars playing six famous movie stars: each portrays a version of her real self, but the question is, how much of that is “acted” and how much stems from reality? I found the initial reports really interesting, and much has been said... More »


Chungmuro/Film
2009 Blue Dragon Film Awards
by | December 2, 2009 | 53 Comments
Kim Ok-bin, of vampire thriller “Thirst” It’s that time of year again: awards season! On December 2, the 30th Blue Dragon Film Awards were held at KBS Hall in Yoido, Seoul, hosted by actors Kim Hye-soo and Lee Beom-soo. Considering the recent slump in the Korean movie industry, it was a pretty good year for... More »


Chungmuro/Film
Movie “Actresses” blurs line between fact and fiction
by | November 17, 2009 | 52 Comments
Talk about an all-star line-up: the new film Actresses [여배우들] features a whole slew of high-profile names, such as Queen Seon-deok‘s Go Hyun-jung and Hallyu princess Choi Ji-woo, pictured above, in addition to Lee Mi-sook (East of Eden), Kim Min-hee (I Like It Hot), Kim Ok-bin (Thirst), and Yoon Yeo-jung (The World They Live In).... More »


Celebrity News
7th Korea Film Awards
by | December 4, 2008 | 35 Comments
You know how at the prom, everyone goes for uber-glitz and black-tie formal, only it’s done through the filter of a 17-year-old fashion sense — or rather, what a 17-year-old would think was formal black-tie fashion sense? So the end result is a really weird mix of over-the-top gaudiness that may have been expensive but... More »


Drama Recaps
Love & Marriage: Episode 16 (Final)
by | October 22, 2008 | 65 Comments
I knew Love & Marriage would end on a happy note, and that nothing totally unexpected would come in the last hour. But I was still pleasantly surprised with how well the drama wrapped up its romance — even managing to pull out a bit of cleverness to keep the inevitable from being totally predictable.... More »


Drama Recaps
Love & Marriage: Episode 15
by | October 15, 2008 | 33 Comments
Love & Marriage reminds me of the exchange in Clueless — Cher: “He said you gave him a toothache.” Tai: “How’d I do that?” Cher: “It’s an expression. It means he thought you were sweet.” If this drama were a type of candy, all my teeth would have fallen out by now. SONG OF THE... More »