Email Author Inkoo Kang
2013 Stories by Inkoo Kang
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Metallica: Through the Never's Weird Provocation of White Aggrievement
published October 3, 2013
In their experimental new film, Metallica endeavor to translate the anger and pain in their music into a visual medium. Directed by... More >>
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On FX's The Bridge, Serial Killers Are a First-World Problem
published September 26, 2013
Mild spoilers up to The Bridge's ninth episode below. Artisanal murders are all the rage these days. On... More >>
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Orange Is the New Black's Radical Critique of American Prisons
published September 5, 2013
All manner of spoilers below. Nearly anyone with a grievance against America's dysfunctional prison system... More >>
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Ten Fascinating Facts from Slimed!, the New Oral History of '90s Nickelodeon
published August 29, 2013
After Jimmy Savile, Amanda Bynes, Lindsay Lohan and that More >>
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Short Term 12 May Seem Depressing, But It's Actually One of the Year's Best Films
published August 22, 2013
Like The Wire or Romanian director Cristian Mungiu's oeuvre, Short Term 12 is the kind of film that sounds agonizingly... More >>
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The World's End Creators Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright Versus Starbucksification
published August 15, 2013
Like so many screenplays, The World's End has its origins in a Starbucks. As director Edgar Wright tells it, the... More >>
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5 Ways The To Do List Is a Radically Feminist Film
published August 1, 2013
This article contains major spoilers. A white suburban teen, urged on by friends, makes the decision to finally get laid,... More >>
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How Friends Illustrates the Depressing Insularity of Our Lives
published July 25, 2013
Friends ended less than a decade ago, but it's already a relic of a bygone era--a critically respected network sitcom... More >>
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The Way, Way Back Directors on Thinking You're a 6 but Hearing You're a 3
published July 11, 2013
Nat Faxon and Jim Rash didn't set out to make a comedy about divorce. Eight years ago, when the improv... More >>
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The Way, Way Back Review: It's Like Watching Pinocchio in Reverse
published July 4, 2013
The Way, Way Back is a crowd-pleasing summer treat, predictable in its sweetness but satisfying all the same. It's like the... More >>
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Pedro Almodóvar's Forgotten Films: 5 of the Spanish Maestro’s Best Comedies
published June 27, 2013
Before he was one of cinema's finest dramatists (All About My Mother, Talk to Her, Volver, Broken... More >>
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To Actresses on the Brink of 40: Go Bad or Go Home
published June 13, 2013
Last week, EW columnist Mark Harris tweeted a statistic... More >>
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Director Rama Burshtein on Fill the Void: It's About the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community, But Isn't for Them
published May 23, 2013
The Israeli arranged-marriage drama Fill the Void begins as a spy caper. Eighteen-year-old Shira (Hadas Yaron) and... More >>
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Hollywood: Enough With the Father-Son Dramas, Already!
published May 9, 2013
In his new film, the social drama More >>
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How to Spot Hollywood's Nonthreatening Black Man (NTBM)
published April 18, 2013
Last week, America received two embarrassing reminders of its doting but asexual love for the Nonthreatening Black Man (NTBM).... More >>
