Last month, Parasite made history at the Academy Awards by being the first foreign-language film to earn Best Picture while also taking home Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Foreign Language Film. And it didn’t take long for HBO to announce a limited series spin-off based upon the feature film with rumours of Mark Ruffalo in […]
Blu-ray Review – Parasite (2019)
Parasite, 2019. Directed by Bong Joon-ho. Starring Song Kang-ho, Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Yeo-jeong, Choi Woo-shik, Park So-dam, Lee Jung-eun, Jang Hyae-jin. SYNOPSIS: A poor family, the Kims, con their way into becoming the servants of a rich family, the Parks. But their easy life gets complicated when their deception is threatened with exposure. Not […]
Mark Ruffalo would love to join the Parasite TV series
Mark Ruffalo has revealed that he would be very interested in joining the Parasite spin-off TV series. This past week, South Korean hit Parasite shocked Hollywood when it took home Best Picture at the Oscars. The Bong Joon-ho film has had a stellar reception ever since arriving on the scene and now a TV show […]
Movie Review – Parasite (2019)
Parasite, 2019. Directed by Bong Joon-ho. Starring Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik, Chang Hyae-jin, Park So-dam, Cho Yeo-jeong, Lee Sun-kyun, Jung Ziso and Lee Jung-eun. SYNOPSIS: A poor family tricks their way into the home of a wealthier one by deceiving their relatives into various household jobs. It’s not often that a film outside of the […]
Movie Review – Parasite (2019)
Parasite, 2019. Starring Directed by Bong Joon-ho. Starring Song Kang-ho, Choi Woo-shik, Chang Hyae-jin, Park So-dam, Cho Yeo-jeong, Lee Sun-kyun, Jung Ziso and Lee Jung-eun. SYNOPSIS: When a penniless family stumble upon the opportunity to integrate themselves into the lives of a rich family, they’re not quite prepared for the kind of doors this new […]
Flickering Myth’s Top Ten Movies of 2019
The Flickering Myth writing team present our top ten movies of 2019… 2019. A year that has seen Disney dominating the multiplexes, the Mouse House setting records left, right and centre (not least Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, which dethroned 2009’s Avatar to become the highest-grossing film of all-time). It’s seen legendary filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese […]
Bong Joon-ho and Adam McKay set to bring Parasite to the small screen with HBO
The 2019 Palme d’Or winning, $130 million worldwide grossing, and absolutely superb Parasite is yet to amaze audiences in the UK, but it has emerged that HBO is in negotiations for a limited series based on one of the most unique movies of modern times. Deadline report that Bong Joon-ho will work with Adam McKay, […]
Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite and Greta Gerwig’s Little Women upstage films from legendary veterans Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese with four 2019 CFCA Awards apiece
Last night, my colleagues and friends of the Chicago Film Critics Association got together to announce the lucky winners and, well, they let me down. Adam Sandler lost Best Actor to some other Adam that most definitely will not be seen in any other movies for the rest of the year – an all-around inferior […]
Bong Joon-Ho’s Palme d’Or winner Parasite gets a new trailer
With just a week to go until it arrives in US cinemas, Neon has released a new trailer for Bong Joon-Ho’s Palme d’Or winner Parasite. The dark comedy drama features a cast that includes Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-joeng Jo, Woo-sik Choi, Hye-jin Jang, and So-dam Park; watch it here… Meet the Park Family: the […]
Video Review – Parasite (2019)
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; […]
