Actor Kim Tae-ri is regarded as a “dynamite” screen presence, and her current debut in the Korean sci-fi film ‘Alienoid’ only enhances her talented reputation, firmly cememted in her role in ‘The Handmaiden’ [2016].

Stylist Choi Ja Ryoung chooses Prada for both covers, adding Givenchy, Fendi and more of the fashion story. Kim Tae-ri is lensed by photographer Yeongjun Kim [IG] for Vogue Hong Kong August 2022./ Hair by Baek Heung Kwon; makeup by Oh Yoon Hee

Writing for the New York Times, Elisabeth Vincentelli goes from befuddled and skeptical to enthusiastic in her commentary that it seems as if director [Dong-hoon] Choi “was drunk on pure filmmaking pleasure and threw every cinematic genre into a gigantic blender.”

This Korean film starts in the 14th century with an alien creature trying to escape from the human body inside which it has been imprisoned. Thankfully, a hole in the sky opens and an SUV materializes, carrying the interstellar lawman Guard (Kim Woo-bin) and his robot sidekick.

And that all happens in the first five minutes of ‘Alienoid’. Watch the trailer.