Bong Joon-ho

Why I love Song Kang-ho’s performance in The Host

By Rory Doherty

In Bong Joon-ho's thrilling monster movie, the South Korean actor is tremendous as a hapless father attempting to save his young daughter.

Bong Joon-ho has lined up Robert Pattinson for his next sci-fi epic

By Charles Bramesco

The new film loosely adapts Mickey7, a to-be-released novel about a clone colonizing an ice-world.

Audrey Diwan’s L’Événement wins the Golden Lion at Venice 2021

By David Jenkins

The searing French takes home the top prize, plus all the other winners from this year’s awards ceremony.

Bong Joon-ho is sets to make waves with his first animated feature

By Charles Bramesco

After his next English-language project, he’ll return to Korea for the sea creature-based cartoon fantasy.

The 30 best films of 2020

By Little White Lies

Our favourite new releases from this year, featuring Spike Lee, Chloé Zhao, Josephine Decker and more.

Bong Joon-ho’s early shorts are coming to the UK for the first time

By Charles Bramesco

Influenza and Incoherence will screen later this month at the London Korean Film Festival.

The 100 Best Films of the 2000s: 25-1

By Little White Lies

A.I., American Psycho and Bamboozled all make the final part of our list – but what will come out on top?

Barking Dogs Never Bite

By Anton Bitel

Bong Joon-ho’s wryly funny social commentary is released for the first time in the UK courtesy of Curzon.

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Bong Joon-ho’s killer instinct

By David Jenkins

The South Korean maestro’s first two films find human comedy in the darkest of places.

Watch: Tragedy and comedy in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite

By Luís Azevedo

Dissecting the slapstick and dramatic elements of the South Korean filmmaker’s Oscar-winning satire.

Watch: Hallyu Forever – The Korean Wave Explained

By Will Webb

How South Korean cinema’s domestic boom in the late 1990s took over the world.

The Top 50 Non-IP titles of the New Millenium: the individual ballots

By Little White Lies

Find out how Little White Lies contributors voted in our critical survey of recent non-IP cinema.

Parasite is now the UK’s highest-grossing foreign-language film ever

By Charles Bramesco

After sweeping the Oscars, Bong Joon-ho now has the honour of knocking Mel Gibson off his perch.

With Parasite’s big night, Oscar’s world gets a little bigger

By Charles Bramesco

The “local” awards ceremony reflects an industry inching towards globalization.

Parasite

By Hannah Strong

Bong Joon-ho’s class-clash black comedy will burrow under your skin and stay there.

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Bong Joon-ho: ‘There is no bunker in my house’

By Prahlad Srihari

The South Korean master dissects his deliciously dark capitalist satire, Parasite.

Watch: A Beginner’s Guide to Bong Joon-ho

By Will Webb

To celebrate the release of Parasite, check out this video primer to South Korea’s finest cinematic export.

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