Kenny B and Paul Quinn discuss a trio of recent Korean films that can be found on streaming or digital, on blu ray, and on the cinema screens: Badland Hunters, The Chaser and Exhuma. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/Badland Hunters review. 21m 2

What’s Korean Cinema? 62 – R-Point

Mar 23rd, 2024 1h 22m

The Korean war movie gets spooky, in 2004’s R-Point. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/R-Point background. 49m 49s – R-Point review. Contact the show via email at podcastonfire at googlemail.com, on our Facebook page

What’s Korean Cinema? 61 – Project Wolf Hunting, Midnight & The Moon

Sep 23rd, 2023 1h 15m

Kenny B and Paul Quinn discuss a trio of recent Korean films that can be found on streaming or digital, on blu ray, and on the cinema screens: Project Wolf Hunting, Midnight and The Moon. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/Project Wolf Hunting 25m

What’s Korean Cinema? 60 – Il Mare

Mar 4th, 2023 1h 18m

Before there was a sassy girl, the ever so luminous Jun Ji-hyun starred in Il Mare, about a mailbox that is a portal to two years earlier. Going back to Korean cinema in the year 2000, with Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Ti

What’s Korean Cinema? 59 – Tell Me Something

Sep 24th, 2022 1h 20m

Dressed up as Silence Of The Lambs and Se7en through grim findings of body parts and constant rain, Korean cinema of 1999 heads into the serial killer film with Tell Me Something. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times:

What’s Korean Cinema? 58 – Art Museum By The Zoo

Aug 6th, 2022 1h 11m

Multiple romance stories are being gradually told. One for us. One by and before the characters in 1998’s Art Museum By The Zoo. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/reception/on director Lee Jeong-hy

What’s Korean Cinema? 57 – Whispering Corridors 6: The Humming

Feb 26th, 2022 1h 18m

After a 11 year hiatus, the Whispering Corridors series is back with its 6th entry. Containing horror that leads into hints of great sadness and insanity connected to friendship and South Korea’s turbulent history, we’ll tell you all about it d

What’s Korean Cinema? 56 – Voice & A Blood Pledge

Dec 18th, 2021 1h 45m

The whispers in the corridor do not stop and the Ghost School Horror series out of Korea is on its fourth and fifth entry: 2005’s Voice and 2009’s A Blood Pledge. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/

What’s Korean Cinema? 55 – Wishing Stairs

Sep 4th, 2021 1h 29m

The Monkey’s Paw and ballet collide in the third Ghost School Horror entry. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/literary background 22m 40s – Notes on the director, box office 37m 13s – Wishing Stair

What’s Korean Cinema? 54 – Memento Mori

Jul 10th, 2021 1h 33m

The Whispering Corridors-series had wind in its sails commercially but rather than do a year later in the same all-girls school follow-up, the makers decided to create a thread for the series based on similar setting and supernatural elements b

What’s Korean Cinema? 53 – Whispering Corridors

Jun 26th, 2021 1h 15m

New wave Korean cinema of the late 90s and onwards logged iconic imagery, settings and atmosphere. Whether through blockbuster action, exploration of vengeance, relationships between North and South Korea at the DMZ but in one of the film indus

What’s Korean Cinema? 52 – The Ring Virus

Apr 11th, 2021 1h 34m

Korean cinema throws their hat into the J-horror ring… by making a Ring of their own. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/background on the novel, Japanese film adaptations, reception of The Ring Vir

What’s Korean Cinema? 51 – Innocent Thing

Oct 3rd, 2020 55m 21s

The director of Volcano High goes back to school but throws out the fighty fighty stuff in favour of the psychological, teachers shouldn’t get romantically involved with students, erotic thriller stuff in Innocent Thing from 2014. With Kenny B

What’s Korean Cinema? 50 – Volcano High

Sep 12th, 2020 1h 11m

Korean cinema could probably do a violence in school exposé with the best of them but here priorities were a little bit different. Putting actors and stuntmen on wires to depict their martial arts powers as conflicts between teachers and studen

What’s Korean Cinema? 49 – Haeundae (Tidal Wave)

May 2nd, 2020 1h 12m

Welcome to Haeundae. It’s going to be a wet vacation. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Intro/Haeundae reception, discussion of director and cast. 43m 49s – Haeundae review. Contact the show via email at

What’s Korean Cinema? 48 – Flu

Apr 18th, 2020 1h 10m

Outbreak or Contagion… Korean style. 2013’s Flu that’s up for review this episode. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Flu director Kim Sung-su discussion, production notes, reception. 32m 25s – Flu review

What’s Korean Cinema? EXTRA – Parasite

Feb 8th, 2020 1h 28m

Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite has opened in UK cinemas so Kenny B and Paul Quinn sit down to discuss the record breaking 2019 South Korean movie. The main discussion contains mild to medium spoilers and the chat after the outro music contain major sp

What’s Korean Cinema? 47 – The Outlaws

Nov 2nd, 2019 1h 5m

Possibly your favourite actor out of Train To Busan takes on awfully stabby gangs in The Outlaws from 2017. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Celluloid. Running Times: 00m 00s – The Outlaws true life background, release, director Kang Yoon

What’s Korean Cinema? 46 – Attack The Gas Station

Oct 26th, 2019 1h 4m

Let’s review Attack The Gas Station. Why? Just because. With Kenny B and Paul Quinn of Hangul Cellulouid. Running Times: 00m 00s – Attack The Gas Station background, production, cast and crew, release. 29m 08s – Attack The Gas Station review.

What’s Korean Cinema? 45 – Alice In Earnestland

Jul 20th, 2019 1h 16m

The unluckiest but most effecient woman in the world enters debt and when the world screws her over, she enters revenge-mode. It’s very funny but you should feel a bit ashamed if you do. This all takes place in the 2015 black comedy Alice In Ea

What’s Korean Cinema? 44 – The Quiet Family

Jul 6th, 2019 1h 23m

Kim Jee-woon bursts onto Korean cinema screens and leaves a funny trail of dead people behind him. We watch Song Kang-ho, Choi Min-sik and company trying to run a lodge and dispose of bodies effectively in the black comedy The Quiet Family from

What’s Korean Cinema? 43 – Six Short Films

Feb 16th, 2019 1h 56m

Korean cinema creativity also goes on in the short movie community, whether the big profiles are experimenting with the format or your lesser known directors. So in this episode we’ll be looking at six different ones using a variety of techniqu

What’s Korean Cinema? 42 – No Blood No Tears

Nov 24th, 2018 1h 32m

The Action Kid Ryoo Seung-wan plants a plethora of characters in the same arena, with the central piece being money, to see how they connect, interact and just how much they are able to beat the crap out of each other in No Blood No Tears from

What’s Korean Cinema? 41 – Kilimanjaro

Nov 17th, 2018 1h 20m

Criminal shoots himself in front of his twin brother who’s a cop. Cop goes back to his old gang in the village and may or may not be acting as his dead twin brother. Violence and a quirky tone ensues in Kilimanjaro from 2000. With Kenny B and H

What’s Korean Cinema? 40 – The Mimic

Aug 17th, 2018 56m 35s

Korean urban legend wrapped in a horror package with some emotional oomph to it, which means we’ll examine if Huh Jung’s The Mimic strikes a balance between approachable local and international horror. With Kenny B and Hangul Celluloid’s Paul Q