Parasite, 2019. Directed by Bong Joon-Ho. Starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, and Park So-dam. After two impressive festival screening, check out our video review for Parasite. In the video below, Flickering Myth critic EJ Moreno talks about director Bong Joon-Ho’s latest masterpiece and why this is one of the year’s best; […]
Bong Joon Ho’s Palme d’Or winner Parasite gets a first trailer
Neon has debuted the first trailer and a poster for director Bong Joon Ho’s (Okja) upcoming dark comedy drama Parasite. The film received world premiere at Cannes this May, where is was awarded the festival’s highest accolade the Palme d’Or, and features a cast that includes Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-joeng Jo, Woo-sik Choi, Hye-jin […]
Second Opinion – Okja (2017)
Okja, 2017. Directed by Joon-ho Bong. Starring Seo-Hyun Ahn, Hee-Bong Byun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhaal, Steven Yeun, Lily Collins, Je-mun Yun, Shirley Henderson, Daniel Henshall, Devon Bostick, and Giancarlo Esposito. SYNOPSIS: Meet Mija, a young girl who risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a massive […]
Movie Review – Okja (2017)
Okja, 2017. Directed by Bong Joon Ho. Starring: Seo-Hyun Ahn, Hee-Bong Byun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhaal, Steven Yeun and Lily Collins. SYNOPSIS: Meet Mija, a young girl who risks everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national company from kidnapping her best friend – a massive animal named Okja. Okja is the latest original film […]
The director of Okja wants his film released in theaters
Bong Joon Ho, the director of Okja, has said that he wants his film to be released in theaters but respects Netflix’s release plans. Okja caused quite a stir at Cannes when Netflix announced its release plans for the film, but its director is now taking the diplomatic route in respecting Netflix’s rights to release the […]
Okja director Bong Joon Ho on why he likes to make movies with Netflix
What started strictly as a streaming phenomenon, Netflix rapidly moved into television and film production. As of writing, Netflix now has over 100 original TV series and movies available on its streaming platform. Several of these original shows have received Emmy Awards, and the new movie The Meyerowitz Stories starring Adam Sandler has even been getting Oscar […]
70th Cannes Film Festival Review – Okja (2017)
Okja, 2017. Directed by Bong Joon Ho. Starring: Seo-Hyun Ahn, Hee-Bong Byun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Lily Collins. SYNOPSIS: A Korean teenager reluctantly joins forces with a group of eco-warriors in a bid to save her beloved super-pig – a genetically modified animal originally created for the slaughterhouse by a sinister corporation. […]
Bong Joon-ho to direct Parasite
It looks like The Host and Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho may have found his next project, with AsianWiki (via The Playlist) reporting that the South Korean filmmaker is developing Parasite, which will reteam him with actor Song-Kang Ho (Memories of Murder, The Host) and revolve around “a family going through a disturbance.” Bong’s next film […]
Bong Joon-ho’s Okja begins filming; Lily Collins, Steven Yeun and more join cast
Filming is now underway in South Korea on acclaimed director Bong Joon-ho’s (Snowpiercer) new film Okja, with the director adding multiple actors to the Netflix original film, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed. Okja is co-written by Bong and Jon Ronson (Frank) and tells the story of “young girl who must risk everything to prevent a powerful, multi-national […]
Netflix financing Bong Joon-Ho’s monster movie Okja
Netflix has continued its expansion into original content, with the streaming service coughing up $50 million to finance Okja, the new film from South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-Ho (The Host, Snowpiercer). The Wrap reports that the monster movie “will focus on the unusual friendship between a young Korean girl and a monster named Okja who […]
