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Hong Gil-dong 2084 (Korea), Opening Aug. 18

Aug 5, 2011

Hong Gil-dong 2084 (Korea) Opening Aug. 18 Animation. Directed by Lee Jeong-in. In 2084, a young man named Hong Gil-dong lives with a little boy named Cheol alone near a city named Yuldo. Gil-dong ...
Bruce Lee items to be sold at Hong Kong auction

Aug 1, 2011

HONG KONG (AFP) -- Thirteen items belonging to the late kung fu legend Bruce Lee, including a 1966 letter he wrote and a fur-lined coat will go under the hammer in a Hong Kong auction next week, a re...
Incubus turns less experimental

Jul 29, 2011

Incubus “If Not Now, When?” Sony Music American rock band Incubus is back with its seventh studio album “If Not Now, When?” five years after the release of “Light Grenades.” Formed in 1991 by voca...
Maestro Chung’s DG albums released

Jul 29, 2011

Chung Myung-whun “Myung-Whun Chung DG Recordings 1991-2010” Universal Music Universal Music has released a collection of recordings by conductor Chung Myung-whun, recorded under the label of Deuts...
Smallwood returns with 12th album

Jul 29, 2011

Richard Smallwood “Promises” Verity Records The death of Richard Smallwood’s mother in 2005 left him so distraught that the Stellar- and Dove Award-winning artist lost the inspiration to write a s...
Box office

Jul 29, 2011

Arrow, the Ultimate Weapon (Korea) Opening Aug. 11 Action. Directed by Kim Han-min. When the second Manchu invasion of Korea occurs in 1636, a young man named Na-mi (Park Hae-il) loses her sister J...
Genre shootout: Western has a dust-up with aliens

Jul 29, 2011

Western has a dust-up with aliens You see the strangest things in the desert. Last year, for instance, if you followed a ridgeline here you would have discovered a massive alien spaceship and, nearb...
University of Texas center acquires Nicholas Ray archives

Jul 28, 2011

The Harry Ransom Center of the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archives of Nicholas Ray, the director of such classic film noirs as 1950’s “In a Lonely Place” and 1952’s “On Dangerous ...
Nicolas Cage to star in film about Alaska serial killer

Jul 28, 2011

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) ― The hunt for Alaska’s most infamous serial murderer is about to get the Hollywood treatment. Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage will star in “Frozen Ground,” a movie d...
‘Cinematheque connects past and future of cinema’

Jul 26, 2011

Extremely eloquent and calm in nature, Seoul Art Cinema’s program director Kim Seong-uk knows his job and films. Kim Seong-uk, program director of the Korean Associat ion of Cinematheques, speaks d...
Coppola unveils 3-D horror ‘Twixt’

Jul 25, 2011
Spielberg says new 'Jurassic Park' is coming soon

Jul 23, 2011

SAN DIEGO (AP) — Dinosaur fan alert: Steven Spielberg says a fourth "Jurassic Park" film may be only a few years away. Spielberg told an audience at the Comic-Con fan convention Friday that he has a...
Japanese jazz band’s 37th album

Jul 22, 2011

T-Square “Nine Stories” Sony Music In any field, being the best is obviously meaningful but being the oldest is also a difficult goal to achieve. In jazz, it is all the more difficult because jazz...
Blake Shelton delivers his best

Jul 22, 2011

Blake Shelton “Red River Blue” Warner Bros. Ten years in, Blake Shelton’s up-and-down career is now skyrocketing, with no dips in sight. His current hit, “Honey Bee,” is his fourth consecutive No...
Box Office

Jul 22, 2011

BOX OFFICE Blind (Korea) Opening August 11 Thriller. Directed by Ahn Sang-hoon. A female university student goes missing one day and later gets discovered as a victim of a hit-and-run car accident...