Netflix’s Korean drama Queenmaker is the story of a corporate fixer who works for a retail giant in Seoul, and for the corrupt, sometimes violent family who owns it. Kim Hee-ae stars as Hwang Do-hee, ...
Early on, Do-hee comes up against unimpeachable civil rights lawyer Oh Kyung-sook (Life’s Moon So-ri) when she causes a ruckus while protesting the company’s unfair layoffs of temporary workers.
Much like the similarly titled film Kingmaker last year, featuring Sul Kyung-gu and Lee Sun-kyun, this series chronicles the uneasy alliance between a strategist and an idealist who have very ...
The new documentary “Queenmaker” revisits the halcyon days when gossip blogs like Gawker stalked socialites and party girls like Tinsley Mortimer, anointing them as major celebs. Entertainment Critic ...
The chronicler of the post-9/11 New York social whirl who is at the center of this documentary was no Manhattan insider but rather a student in Illinois. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for ...
Netflix's Queenmaker saw the maker and breaker of politicians' careers Hwang Do-hee (Kim Hee-ae) team up with labour-rights lawyer Oh Seung-sook (Moon So-ri) to help Sook rise to political power as ...
A new doc, Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl, examines the rise of socialite celebrities like Paris Hilton and Tinsley Mortimer in the mid 2000s — and the subsequent blogger backlash to the ...
Political thriller Queenmaker debuts globally on Netflix tomorrow (April 14). The 12-part series will follow a spin doctor seeking to put one person into power as the 39th Seoul Mayoral be-election ...
For some, it's the last real taste of innocence, and the first real taste of life.