Extremely eloquent and calm in nature, Seoul Art Cinema’s program director Kim Seong-uk knows his job and films. Kim has been in charge of organizing both screenings and education programs for anyone who likes movies or learning about films, ever since the venue’s opening in 2002. “To put it simply, Cinematheque is like a film library,” Kim said during an interview with The Korea Herald. “Yet ...

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 story and a screenwriter for the next installment of his blockbuster franchise about prehistoric reptiles brought into modern times through cloning. The filmmaker directed the first two "Jurassic Pa...

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 musicians tend to enjoy improvisations with new artists rather than staying part of the same act. T-Square, one of the oldest fusion jazz bands in Japan, has released its 37th studio album “Nine Sto...

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. 1, setting records for a male country singer in how fast it reached gold in digital sales. He is the current CMA Male Vocalist of the Year, and he starred as a coach in the popular NBC talent show, ...

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. Assuming the kidnapper and the driver are the same person, the police begin their investigation but fail to get a hold of the criminal. They then find there were two witnesses at the scene: Soo-ah (...

Mila Kunis feels the need to set the record straight. Yes, she was sharing a steamy love scene with Justin Timberlake in their sex comedy “Friends with Benefits.” Yes, she knew Timberlake’s reputation as a lady-killer, from Britney to Fergie, Alyssa Milano, Cameron Diaz, Jessica Biel and maybe Olivia Wilde. And, yes, she dozed off in the middle of said sexy scene. But she can explain. “What ha...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) ― Efforts to preserve and restore several iconic dresses from the Oscar-winning Civil War movie “Gone With the Wind” have uncovered what might be painful for die-hard fans: Some of them simply can’t be made to look like they did on screen. Stitching and holes can be repaired and extra feathers added years ago can be removed, but the dresses are old, badly faded in spots and in...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) ― A Spanish collector plans to auction what he claims is a newly discovered 8-mm version of a film purportedly showing Marilyn Monroe having sex when she was still an underage actress known as Norma Jean Baker. A Marilyn Monroe expert, however, says the actress in the film is someone else, considerably heavier and less feminine than the legendary film star. “That’s ...

Amid the crush of “Twilight” fans and displays of upcoming movies and TV shows, the comic books that started it all at San Diego’s annual Comic-Con are still there championing the heroes. It was four decades ago that the first Comic-Con was held at an aging downtown hotel, attracting only a handful of major guests. This weekend, some 130,000 fans will roam the San Diego Convention Center at what...

LOS ANGELES (AFP) ― “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows ― Part 2,” broke single-day box office records with a whopping $92.1 million in opening day sales, according to industry tracker Exhibitor Relations. The eighth film in the Harry Potter series eclipsed 2009’s “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” which previously held the one-day ticket sales record at $72.7 million, added Exhibitor Relations. ...

BOX OFFICE The Front Line (Korea) Opening July 20 Drama. Directed by Jang Hoon. It is July 1953, and the Korean War is almost at its end. When a South Korean squad leader is shot dead, Eun-pyo (Shin Ha-gyun), a lieutenant, is ordered to investigate. It is suspected that the man was shot by one of his own subordinates, and not by the North Koreans. As Eun-pyo moves to the frontlines to look int...

Depapepe “One” Sony Music Weather and music tend to have a match. For hot summer days, the refreshing sound of bosa nova is recommended; for rainy and gloomy days, sticky jazz sounds might be appropriate. Japanese guitar duo Depapepe’s music matches bright sunny days and summer vacation trips. After the 2009 album “Do!,” the duo is back with their fifth album “One.” In Korea, the duo became fa...

If you lived through the Age of Enlightenment, you probably didn’t know it. Likewise, the Age of Reason. Or the Age of Innocence. But the Age of Harry? For Muggles not to know they’ve been living through the Potter Era would be like not noticing a Hogwarts’ commencement exercise marching through their living room. Or the noseless Voldemort sitting in the breakfast nook. “Harry Potter and the Dea...