Hong Sang-soo's Hat Trick
In The Novelist's Film, Hong explores the meaningful things people share and inspire by virtue of simply engaging with one another.

Four content creator friends—Raka, Naya, Kevin, and Bima—who love exploring horror, decide to visit a mysterious building known as the Three-Story Building, a building without doors, windows, or rooms that stands in the middle of a rice paddy. With their cameras as witnesses, they intend to prove that the haunted stories circulating are just myths. However, from the moment they enter the building, various illogical events begin to haunt them. Mysterious voices, a dark figure visible only through the camera, and illusions of space and time trap them in an inexplicable terror. When the exit seemingly disappears and the footage begins to show a different reality, they realize that something has been watching them from the beginning. ARSI 07: Unpublished Footage is a mockumentary and found footage horror film that creates suspense through seemingly real footage, with an ending that leaves the question: did they really escape, or have they become part of the archives forever lost?
In The Novelist's Film, Hong explores the meaningful things people share and inspire by virtue of simply engaging with one another.
Joann Kohng’s Subject to IX tells the heartbreaking truth of the Title IX rules that colleges abide by.
Meander, released in 2021, is a French gory horror film featuring a woman trapped in small spaces as she fights for her life, paralleling real pandemic life.
Marvel’s first Asian superhero film, 'Shang-Chi', deserves praise for balancing epic superhero action, a heartfelt family plot, and positive Asian representation.
The Forge is a moving story about a young man’s search for purpose. Through mentorship, discipline, and faith in God, his life is transformed from confusion into clarity, reminding us that true greatness is shaped in the fire of surrender and growth.
Remember when there was this amazing comedy titled "National Lampoon's Vacation"? To this day, it is a true classic of the genre and certainly put a new spin on precisely what KINDS of insanity could occur when taking the fam on the road. Then, like with so many successful films, there was the sequel (which for me was even MORE of a classic than the original!). However, the third film emerged....and then a fourth. Suddenly, the luster was gone and disappointment set in.