I recently re-watched Snowpiercer with my boyfriend and former roommate the other night on Hulu Plus, and I was once again struck by how director Bong Joon-ho made his interpretation of the French comic book Le Transperceneige both immensely entertaining in a mainstream way as well as thought-provoking. Snowpiercer was out on limited-release this summer due to conflicts between the director and the distribution company (supposedly, the director wanted to keep an extra 20 minutes that the distributor wanted to lop off), but don't be fooled by its relative obscurity in the U.S. - it's got an all-star cast. An almost unrecognizable Chris Evans stars as revolutionary leader, Curtis, who plans a rebellion to take control the perpetual-motion engine of the train hurtling across the frozen Earth holding the last of humanity after a climate experiment gone wrong. Along the way, he picks up allies such as Tanya (Octavia Spencer), Namgoong Minsoo (Kang-ho Song), and Yona (Ah-sung Ko) to fight against the mysterious train conductor/inventor Wilford (Ed Harris) and his cronies.
