Of all the epic movies that deal with revenge, the best ever made include classics like Ben-Hur, Braveheart, and both volumes ...

Revenge thrillers are common and often follow the same formula: a guy wants revenge, and so he becomes a ruthless killing machine to track down and execute his archnemesis while taking out countless ...

Daniel is a University of Louisville graduate with an English degree, a sizable collection of Blu-rays, books, records, and a love of hiking. In the mid 2000s, Park Chan-wook's Oldboy exploded in ...

Catharsis, satisfaction, schadenfreude... There are a lot of words to describe the feeling people get when bad things happen ...

Much-lauded Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi has done two unjustified stints in prison in Iran, but he always simply speaks the truth in his films. The most recent saw him get out in 2023 and he is now ...

South Korean filmmakers have mastered the revenge movie better than possibly any other national cinema. "Why" is a whole other question; chalk it up to a collective ressentiment branded into the ...