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, Korean cinema has been crafting trend setting, ahead of the curve cinema for years and always comfortable to go to those […]
Robert Pattinson to star in Bong Joon-Ho’s new film
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”
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 […]
Bong Joon-ho to direct his first-ever animated film
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 […]
Parasite HBO series is an original story in the film’s universe and not a remake, confirms writer Adam McKay
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), […]
Bong Joon Ho has finished his first post-Parasite script and revealed some details
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, […]
Bong Joon-ho has completed one of two scripts he’s developing as his Parasite follow-up
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 […]
Is Bong Joon-Ho the best in the business right now?
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 […]
Movie Review – Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000)
Barking Dogs Never Bite, 2000. Directed by Bong Joon-ho. Starring Bae Doona, Lee Sung-jae, Kim Ho-jung, Byun Hee-bong, Go Soo-hee and Kim Roi-ha. SYNOPSIS: An out-of-work professor wages a violent crusade against noisy dogs in his apartment complex. It’s fitting, in many ways, that Bong Joon-ho’s idiosyncratic first feature Barking Dogs Never Bite hit cinema […]
Movie Review – Parasite: Black-And-White Edition (2020)
Parasite: Black-And-White Edition, 2020. Directed by Bong Joon-ho. Starring Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik, Jang Hyae-jin, Park So-dam, Cho Yeo-jeong, Lee Sun-kyun, Jung Ziso and Lee Jung-eun. SYNOPSIS: A poor family living in a semi-basement apartment trick their way into the lavish home of a wealthy one by posing as various household workers. It feels like […]
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