It’s a small but appreciated blessing that You’re All Surrounded is one of those dramas that has a much stronger second half than the first. I survived the choppier first half and now feel like I’m rewarded to recap happily with plenty of nicely built up resolutions to look forward to. Episode 15 toggles between cheerful filler like a Gangnam … Continue reading →
Another entertainment-related romance news hit the wires this week and this one is the reverse of last month’s announcement that Korean actress Chae Rim was marrying her Chinese actor boyfriend Gao Zi Qi. Chinese actress Tang Wei is engaged to critically acclaimed Korean movie director Kim Tae Young who directed her and Hyun Bin in the art house movie Late … Continue reading →
It’s been five-years since the critically acclaimed TW-drama Black & White, which spawned talks of a sequel or even movie reuniting the cop partner duo of Vic Zhou as Pi Zi and Mark Chao as Ying Xiong. For various reasons that never materialized and two years ago Director Tsai and Mark did reunite for the first movie prequel called Black … Continue reading →
Does anyone else feel like both July and the K-drama remake of Fated to Love You totally snuck up on the world? With just one week in between the premiere of Joseon Gunman and You’re All Surrounded heading towards the final stretch, FTLY is the rom-com dark horse in a time when rom-coms generally fizzle when it comes to racking up ratings. … Continue reading →
The romance trajectory of Joseon Gunman hews closely to its PD’s predecessor work The Princess’s Man. I actually don’t find the visual styles all that similar but the story set up is almost a carbon copy based on what has been shown plus the teasers to come. Like in TPM, leads Park Yoon Kang and Jung Soo In have the … Continue reading →
The end is getting so close and the light at the end of the tunnel is either my salvation or Dr. Stranger done killed me and I don’t know that I’m heading towards the light. Episode 18 continues to be as nonsensical as all out but, and that’s a very qualified but, it actually didn’t leave me quaking with anger … Continue reading →
By all that is holy in the realm of fan-fiction, how the hell did this cast get assembled for the upcoming live-action adaptation of the classic shonen manga Lupin the Third? I posted the teaser trailer and first character posters a few months back and it already looked so fabulous I was ready to don my burgundy velvet jacket and … Continue reading →
I don’t know if the loss of one member from the dozen member boy idol group EXO has ended up making a difference in musical output or fan affection, but the departing member Kris has certainly moved on. The leader of the sub-unit EXO-M, Kris now officially goes by his full Chinese name Wu Yi Fan for his Chinese entertainment … Continue reading →
Dr. Stranger commits every narrative crime in the book, and then some, as it barrels its way towards an ending that portends everything that no one wants to see. Does it understand logic? It never did from the get go and later on it started to get amnesia on top of that. Does it have an emotional core? Not anymore … Continue reading →
It’s almost two months now since In a Good Way ended its half-year long run and I’m feeling nostalgic but not suffering from any withdrawals. The more distance placed between me and the ending, the more it feels just right in bittersweet coming-of-age choices. Plus there’s the movie to look forward to! It’s all good in IAGW fandom. That doesn’t … Continue reading →
There are various feelings that So Ji Sub‘s just released new rap single elicits from me. The track is called “18 Years” and is a So Ji Sub rap ode to his eighteen years in the entertainment industry. The lyrics were self-written to express thoughts and feelings he’s not able able to share during his long tenure as a K-actor … Continue reading →
Ugh, I love this slow and delicate chapter of Lost You Forever way too much. So little action but so much richness in important details. Xiao Yao moves back to Sheng Nong Mountain and finds her true calling after a walk down memory lane. She reads the former Flame Emperor’s medical journals and really understands what being a healer means … Continue reading →
The first drama stills are out for the upcoming MBC Mon-Tues drama Records of a Night Watchman, the supernatural fusion sageuk that’s going to take over for Triangle once these three brothers finish hashing out their issues in another month. The first stills are from the parents generation before young leads Jung Il Woo, Go Sung Hee, Yunho, Seo Ye Ji, … Continue reading →