White tees and skinny jeans, Grimm's fairy tales and Marvel comics, 80s disco beat and soul music---what do these things have in common? Yes, they are all classics. In films, specifically Korean, there's one masterpiece that always comes to my mind when I think of classics, and that's none other than the 2003 romance-melodrama that…
Continue reading ➞ Movie Review: 5 Classic Scenes from The Classic (2003)
Our first love, our first hero. No matter what description we’d like to attach to his name, we all call him just the same---dad. For this belated Father’s Day special of K-Movie Corner, your resident movie reviewer presents to you Miracle in Cell No. 7, a touching film about a daughter and her mentally-handicapped yet…
Continue reading ➞ Movie Review: Fun Facts About the Stars of Miracle in Cell No. 7 (2013)
Honestly, action movies aren't my cup of tea, but something about The Thieves got me hooked from the first to the last minute of it. Released in 2012, The Thieves was once named the most-watched Korean movie of all time, recording a whopping 13 million theater admissions. It also marked the return to the heist…
Continue reading ➞ Movie Review: 5 Times Jun Ji-hyun Stole the Scene in The Thieves (2012)
Better late than never! Happy ommas’ day to all moms across dramaverse and real world! K-Movie Corner would like to honor the most important woman in our lives through this edition, and Miss Granny is no doubt the perfect film choice to do that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_wDiuRu8Jw Miss Granny is a heart-warming movie about a woman in…
“Love conquers all,” they say. All hopeless romantics, myself included, will surely agree with it. This is most likely the reason why romance movies are almost always a box-office hit. And for this edition of K-Movie Corner, we’ll bring you the unconventional romantic-comedy film that is The Beauty Inside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XcK4Elpn0s This 2015 movie based on the…
Continue reading ➞ Movie Review: 5 Love Lessons That The Beauty Inside (2015) Teaches Us
[SPOILER ALERT!] It’s true that Halloween is still a few more months away, but watching a zombie movie, especially a good one like Train to Busan, can’t wait until the end of October. This Gong Yoo-led film is definitely a treat to all zombie movie lovers out there, and I’m going to tell you why.…
Annyeonghaseyo! I’m Unica Ahjumma and today is my first day as your official movie reviewer here in Ahjummamshies so I hope you all enjoy my first movie review. So tell me, are you excited!? Because I am! Okay, here we go… *drum roll please!* first up, Sunny! Have you watched it, ahjummamshies? If you haven’t, […]
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