From the inaugural Korean Film Festival 2004: Failan, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and Untold Scandal. TIM WONG, AARON YAP and MIA V review in short.

Have you read any reviews about Coffee and Cigarettes yet? If so, then this one won't say anything new – nothing shockingly groundbreaking, however I do think this film is worth seeing unlike many reviewers. Here's why:

The scars of the Korean war are retold with mixed results in Kang Je-gyu's Taegukgi, finds TIM GRAY at the Korean Film Festival 2004.

Classroom politics and corporal punishment meet the blossom of young love in Once Upon a Time in High School, screening as part of the Korean Film Festival 2005. CALEB STARRENBURG writes.

A love story that wasn't supposed to work, DAVID LEVINSON came this close to crying by the end of My Sassy Girl. He reviews as part of Lumière's Korean Film Festival 2005 coverage.

Masterclass! short film workshops with UK writer/director/actor/educator Simon van der Borgh and US short film guru Kim Adelman. By SÁNDOR LAU.

Reviewed by Tim Wong

BEFORE I ponder the demise of the human race via the modern day animated picture, it should be known first that Shark Tale is not the sequel to Finding Nemo, but an alarming trend in petty studio rivalry. This juvenile display in playground competitiveness is matched only by the irony that when it comes to computer animation, both Dreamworks and Pixar – the latter formerly of Disney – are in the business of entertaining children, and even more so, the business of generating profit. So really, it's not that childish after all.