Oldboy (movie)

LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Samuel L. Jackson will bring his trademark strut and baritone to "Barely Lethal," RKO Pictures announced from the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. The "Pulp Fiction" actor will co-star opposite Hailee Steinfeld, who nabbed an...

May 17 (TheWrap.com) - With Michael Mann gearing up to start production on an untitled thriller involving cyber crime, Spike Lee has come on to direct the rags-to-riches tale "Gold," which Teddy Schwarzman's Black Bear Pictures will finance and produce...

What's the secret of Uncle Charlie (Matthew Goode)? It's revealed slowly and eerily to the mother and daughter (Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska) who welcome him into their home, then have cause to wonder if that was a smart move, in this intriguing tale...

May 16 (TheWrap.com) - Samuel L. Jackson will bring his trademark strut and baritone to "Barely Lethal," RKO Pictures announced from the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday. The "Pulp Fiction" actor will co-star opposite Hailee Steinfeld, who nabbed an...

May 07 (TheWrap.com) - In what will be his very first feature comedy, "The Wire" and "Fringe" star Lance Reddick has been cast as one of the leads in Universal and Gold Circle's "Search Party," The Wrap has learned. Scot Armstrong is making his...

A young woman's reddish-brown hair, in close-up, dissolves into an overhead shot of wild reeds, eased this way and that by the wind. "Stoker" would be nothing without such flourishes. The film swims in them, and cares little for conventional narrative...

"Stoker" is utterly fascinating -- about what we'd expect from the American debut of Korean director Park Chan-wook, whose 2003 "Oldboy" was one of the most extraordinary films of the millennium so far. Even those who found the subject and gore of “...

Foreign auteurs tend to enjoy a good metaphoric image or three. And few like them more than Chan-wook Park, the South Korean filmmaker behind violent cult hits such as "Oldboy." In "Stoker," Park's English-language debut starring Nicole Kidman that...

Genre filmmaking helps make sense of the world, creating codes by which the seemingly irrational ways of human behavior can be understood. With storytelling modes that travel from country to country — the crime picture, the horror film, the action...

In a high-tech bungalow on a back corner of the 20th Century Fox lot, the South Korean auteur Chan-wook Park is chiseling his opus as the clock ticks toward 9 p.m. Park, the toast of Asian cinema and hero to hordes of genre-film enthusiasts, is...