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Movie Review – Mickey 17 (2025)

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Mickey 17, 2025. Written and Directed by Bong Joon Ho. Starring Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, Anamaria Vartolomei, Steven Yeun, Patsy Ferran, Steve Park, Tim Key, Holliday Grainger, Michael Monroe, Edward Davis, Cameron Britton, Ian Hanmore, Ellen Robertson, Rose Shalloo, Daniel Henshall, Angus Imrie, and Anna Mouglalis. SYNOPSIS: Mickey Barnes, an “expendable” […]

Robert Pattinson featured on new posters for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17

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Following hot on the heels of the latest trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, Warner Bros. has shared nine new posters for the sci-fi comedy featuring Robert Pattinson’s Mickey carrying out various tasks in his role with the worst job in the universe; check them out here… From the Academy Award-winning writer/director of “Parasite,” […]

Robert Pattinson is dying to save mankind in the trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17

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Having finally decided on a March release date following multiple delays, Warner Bros. Pictures and Plan B Entertainment have released a brand new trailer for Bong Joon Ho’s Mickey 17, the Academy Award winning director’s first film since Parasite.  The science-fiction comedy stars Robert Pattinson (The Batman) as the titular Mickey, a worker who half-heartedly […]

First trailer for Bong Joon-Ho’s sci-fi comedy Mickey 17 starring Robert Pattinson

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Warner Bros. has released a trailer for Mickey 17, the sci-fi comedy from director Bong Joon-Ho (Parasite) and based on Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey7. Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey, a man who accepts a job as an ‘expendable’, whose role is to sent onto missions into space… and every time he dies a new […]

Ten Essential Korean Cinema Gems

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Tom Jolliffe offers up some essential Korean cinema gems… While Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite garnered global attention on its way to becoming the first non-English language film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture back in 2020, Korean cinema has been crafting trend setting, ahead of the curve cinema for years and always comfortable to […]

Bong Joon-Ho introduces us to Robert Pattinson’s Mickey 17 in teaser for new sci-fi

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Warner Bros. has delivered us an early Christmas present by dropping the teaser for Academy Award-winning Korean director Bong Joon-Ho’s next film Mickey 17, which features Robert Pattinson as the lead and will debut in cinemas on March 29, 2024. Based on the novel written by Edward Ashton, Mickey 17 follows an individual known as an […]

Steven Yeun joins Robert Pattinson in Bong Joon Ho’s new film

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Bong Joon Ho loves reteaming with actors, and his next project has brought in one of his past collaborators. Deadline reports that the Parasite filmmaker will reunite with Steven Yeun, following their work together for Netflix’s Okja in 2017. Yeun is coming off his starring role in Jordan Peele’s Nope coming this July and will […]

Robert Pattinson to star in Bong Joon-Ho’s new film

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Bong Joon-Ho is gearing up for another film, following his massively successful Parasite, and will turn to Robert Pattinson to star. The film is currently untitled but will be an adaptation of the upcoming novel Mickey7 from Edward Ashton. As per Deadline, “The novel’s story follows, Mickey7, an Expendable: a disposable employee on a human […]

Bong Joon Ho says HBO’s Parasite series “will be something of great genius, I hope”

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After making history at the Oscars, HBO announced that a television series adaptation of Parasite was currently in development from writer Adam McKay, and now director Bong Joon Ho has shared his optimism for the series. “[The television series] will be something of great genius, I hope. I worked with Adam McKay and he’s figuring out […]