New on DVD: ‘Snowpiercer’ is Revolution on a High-Speed Train

‘Snowpiercer': We’d like a seat in first class, please (Anchor Bay)

Bong Joon-ho is a South Korean director who isn’t a household name in the States but by all rights should be. In his newest film,Snowpiercer, he imagines a quasi-steampunk post-apocalyptic thriller that’s also a handy little morality tale about class inequality.

Snowpiercer is available now on DVD and Blu-ray. My review is at PopMatters:

The physics of Snowpiercer’s futuristic plot are as stripped-down as the backstory is convol...