Tagged: phyllis somerville

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The Year of Asian 2.0: Hallyu and More

It’s been nearly 11 years since I wrote the small piece on The Year of Asian, celebrating Yojiro Takita’s Okuribito snatching the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and Slumdog Millionaire sweeping award season...

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Stoker

Those familiar with director Park Chan-wook’s style will immediately be engaged by the lush nature of his English-language debut Stoker, a coming-of-age story of a very different kind.

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Big C, The – Season 3

Season 3 is all about remission regarding Cathy Jamison’s cancer, but the problem with the remission theme is that it made Season 3 pretty boring to watch.

Park Chan-wook’s Stoker Trailer

‘Personally speaking, I can’t wait to watch your life tear you apart.’ The long-awaited trailer for Park Chan-wook’s English debut film Stoker is finally out. And despite the spoiler, it still looks quite fantastic.

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YAM – Issue 012

Our latest and last issue as a PDF. This marks a new beginning for us, and marks the actual 2-month countdown for the opening of yam-mag.com. In this issue, McNeil from The Dark of the Matinee gives us a look at what was the Toronto Film Festival this year, and gives his thoughts on Let Me In, Black Swan, and Norwegian Wood.

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Big C, The – Season 1

Cathy is a 40-something-year-old woman diagnosed with terminal cancer, making her reexamine her own life — which includes an apparently loving but too self-absorbed husband Paul, their annoyingly average teenage boy Adam, her against the system bum of a brother Sean, and a job as a high school teacher.