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Ten Essential Korean Cinema Gems

July 27, 2023 by Tom Jolliffe

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 […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Essential..., Featured, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: A Day Off, A Girl At My Door, Bong Joon-ho, Lady Vengeance, mother!, Night Journey, Oldboy, Parasite, Peppermint Candy, Sympathy For Mr Vengeance, The Good the Bad The Weird, The Handmaiden, The Vengeance Trilogy, The Wailing, The Witch: Part One – The Subversion

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

December 6, 2022 by Matt Rodgers

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 […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News, Trailers Tagged With: Bong Joon-ho, Mark Ruffalo, Mickey 17, Naomi Ackie, Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun, Toni Collette, Warner Bros.

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

July 8, 2022 by EJ Moreno

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 […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Bong Joon-ho, Mickey7, Robert Pattinson, Steven Yeun

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

January 20, 2022 by EJ Moreno

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 […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Bong Joon-ho, Mickey7, Robert Pattinson

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

July 8, 2021 by Liam Waddington

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 […]

Filed Under: Liam Waddington, News, Television Tagged With: Adam McKay, Bong Joon-ho, HBO, Parasite

Bong Joon-ho to direct his first-ever animated film

May 14, 2021 by EJ Moreno

Bong Joon-ho is one of the busiest filmmakers working these days. Not only is he working on two feature films, one Korean and one in English, but he’s also trying something entirely new as well as the Oscar-winning filmmaker is taking his keen eye for cinema to the world of animation. Bong will direct a […]

Filed Under: EJ Moreno, Movies, News Tagged With: Bong Joon-ho

Parasite HBO series is an original story in the film’s universe and not a remake, confirms writer Adam McKay

April 24, 2021 by Liam Waddington

Shortly after making history at the Oscars after winning Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Foreign Language Film, it was announced that director Bong Joon Ho was teaming up with writer Adam McKay and HBO for a television series adaptation. Now, during an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast (via Collider), […]

Filed Under: Liam Waddington, News, Television Tagged With: Adam McKay, Bong Joon-ho, HBO, Parasite

Bong Joon Ho has finished his first post-Parasite script and revealed some details

April 1, 2021 by Matt Rodgers

The success of Parasite not only highlighted the strength of Korean cinema as whole, it also meant that many people had their eyes opened to an entire Bong Joon Ho back-catalogue which they could plough through during lockdown. Well, now that everyone has hopefully been educated on the brilliance of Memories of Murder and Mother, […]

Filed Under: Matt Rodgers, Movies, News Tagged With: Bong Joon-ho, Parasite

Bong Joon-ho has completed one of two scripts he’s developing as his Parasite follow-up

February 12, 2021 by EJ Moreno

Following up a highly successful and Acadamy Awards sweeping film like Parasite is no easy task. No one knows that more than the filmmaker behind it, Bong Joon-ho. This week marked the first anniversary of his historic run at the Oscars, and he’s looking to get started on his follow-up projects. The Parasite and Memories […]

Filed Under: Movies, News Tagged With: Bong Joon-ho, Parasite

Is Bong Joon-Ho the best in the business right now?

November 30, 2020 by Tom Jolliffe

Tom Jolliffe looks at Bong Joon-Ho’s work this century. Is there anyone better? There are some exceptional directors in cinema right now. Some fresh talent burning bright, just etching the beginnings of their (hopefully consistent) legacies. I’m massively into Robert Eggers right now, and the Safdie Brothers. Steve McQueen continues producing powerful work across several […]

Filed Under: Articles and Opinions, Movies, Tom Jolliffe Tagged With: Bong Joon-ho, Memories of Murder, mother!, Okja, Parasite, Snowpiercer, The Host

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