SNOWPIERCER

"Snowpiercer" is the Bong Joon Ho movie that many people have never heard of. He made it in English in 2013 and it's an ultraviolent dystopian sci-fi picture that takes place entirely on a train hurtling through a frozen landscape without stopping and standing in for the world at large, a world ruled by a single figurehead and divided by class. It's certainly imaginative and splendidly cast. Chris Evans, John Hurt, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer and Joon Ho regular Kang-ho Song are the good guys, in other words the lower classes condemned to the train's grim rear while Tilda Swinton and Ed Harris typify the ruling class, up front with the sacred engine and fundamentally it's about the revolt that occurs when those at the back decide to move to the front. If Joon Ho's Korean films are the ones for which he'll be remembered this is the one that might stand out as the cult favourite. It may be a Midnight Movie but it's one with heart, soul and chutzpah to spare.