Style Mickey 17 and #1 Toni Mickey 17 is Bong Joon-ho’s first film since he won the Oscars for Best Director and Best Picture for Parasite. He is among the few directors and certainly even fewer non-western directors to be an audience draw, no matter who the stars are. Which is why it’s been By Lainey • Feb 14, 2025 12:28 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Rooting for all the Mickeys Promotion for Bong Joon-ho’s latest film, Mickey 17, has kicked off with Robert Pattinson in tow, ahead of its premiere in South Korea next week. Then it plays the Berlin Film Festival in February, before opening everywhere else in March and April (it opens in North American on March By Sarah • Jan 24, 2025 01:18 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Twice the RPattz Bong-Joon Ho’s Parasite follow-up, Mickey 17, has been a source of much interest, as Bong is allegedly engaged in a power struggle with executives at Warner Bros. Discovery for final cut of the film. I wonder if that situation is now resolved, because the first trailer for Mickey 17 By Sarah • Sep 18, 2024 10:28 am
Business of Hollywood Intro for June 6, 2024 Dear Gossips, In 2020, South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho won Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Picture for Parasite. He had previously directed the masterful Memories of Murder, as well as international hits The Host and Mother, and he’s made a couple of films for the Hollywood system, By Sarah • Jun 06, 2024 09:23 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Bong Joon-ho and Robert Pattinson’s long wait CinemaCon is now underway – it’s the annual convention in Las Vegas where the studios present exclusive previews of their upcoming releases to theatre owners to build anticipation. Yesterday Robert Pattinson made an appearance alongside Bong Joon-ho for their film Mickey 17. If not for last year’s strikes, Mickey By Lainey • Apr 10, 2024 11:57 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Steven Yeun is doing the best Bong Joon-ho’s next film is a (definitely going to be weird) sci-fi adaptation starring Robert Pattinson. The cast is still growing, though, now including Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, and Naomi Ackie, as well as the newest comer, Academy Award Nominee Steven Yeun. This is a reunion for Bong and By Sarah • Jul 08, 2022 01:49 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bong Joon-ho and RPattz are getting weird in space Remember that split second in 2020 when Bong Joon-ho and Parasite, a good movie people actually saw, won all the Oscars, and for a moment, pop culture was fun and enjoyable? Good times, good times. Well, anyway, Bong Joon-ho is preparing his next project, and it looks like an adaptation By Sarah • Jan 21, 2022 10:30 am
Gorgessity Cynthia Erivo brings it to Venice The Venice Film Festival kicks off today and if Cynthia Erivo is an indication, we are about to get a spectacle tonight at the opening gala. Cynthia is a member of the jury this year. Bong Joon-ho is the Venice 2021 jury president. That means the two back-to-back East Asian By Lainey • Sep 01, 2021 10:45 am
Cannes 2021 Intro for July 7, 2021 Dear Gossips, Like so many other events, the Cannes Film Festival didn’t happen last year. Which means that Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite, the 2020 Best Picture Oscar winner, is still the reigning Palme d’Or film, at least for another ten days until this year’s Palme d’Or By Lainey • Jul 07, 2021 08:52 am
Oscars 2021 Chloe Zhao: Bong Joon-ho’s Oscar Successor The hope, of course, is that one day we won’t have to mention the how remarkable it is – for a woman to win Best Director at the Oscars. And that she’s a woman of colour. But that day has yet to come. So it’s history: Chloe Zhao By Lainey • Apr 26, 2021 06:26 am
Brad Pitt Oscars: The Award Show Movie The Academy yesterday announced its first slate of presenters. The Oscars this year, as we know, is not going to be the show we’re used to seeing. There will be no audience. Nominees are limited to one guest. Not even sure if presenters are allowed to bring guests. Apparently By Lainey • Apr 13, 2021 01:42 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews Bong Joon-ho’s masterpiece, Memories of Murder, returns in gorgeous, ghastly 4K (Lainey: A Halloween recommendation that isn’t Hocus Pocus or Practical Magic…) Bong Joon-ho’s sophomore film, Memories of Murder, is a masterpiece of the crime drama genre, and is arguably still Bong’s finest film to date. Loosely based on the Hwaseong serial murders—South Korea’s first recorded By Sarah • Oct 28, 2020 12:57 pm
TV Updates Parasite’s good vibes continue No matter how 2020 turns out, this year did something right when Parasite won Best Picture, among other awards, at the Oscars. Parasite’s Oscar wins are the good vibes we need, and the good vibes keep going as Parasite is extending its hit theatrical run in the wake of By Sarah • Feb 18, 2020 03:24 pm
Oscars 2020 Intro for February 11, 2020 Dear Gossips, For the last few weeks, we’ve all been thirsting for the least thirsty person – which is probably why we can’t get enough of her. You know who I’m talking about: it’s Sharon Choi, the filmmaker and interpreter who’s been showing the sh-t of By Lainey • Feb 11, 2020 09:14 am
Oscars 2020 How To Oscar, with your guide Bong Joon-ho Parasite was an exceptional movie, by which I mean it was a literal outlier. I don’t know anyone who saw it who didn’t like it, including those grumps at the Honest Oscar Ballot – it was an actual feat in filmmaking. Which is why it won Best Picture, even By Duana • Feb 10, 2020 04:18 am
Oscars 2020 Intro for February 10, 2020 Dear Gossips, The Oscars, obviously, aren’t perfect. Far from perfect. And after what happened last night, it doesn’t make its shortcomings any less… short. But something special did happen. History happened. The first South Korean film to be nominated for Best Picture actually won Best Picture – after winning By Lainey • Feb 10, 2020 03:48 am
