From "The Host" to "Mickey 17," the beloved Korean director has a perspective and way of seeing the world that's all his own. When Bong Joon Ho took the stage of the 92nd Academy Awards to accept ...

In the years since Bong Joon Ho made Oscar history with “Parasite”s best picture victory in 2020, the Korean director’s fanbase continued to grow and evolve around the world. And with the ...

For Bong, this approach is vital for his films, as that human element grounds movies that effortlessly shift among satire, pathos, action, and genre. “I don’t think it’s good to control ...

Then they put him right back to work. It seems that to Bong, this scenario just sounded like the next evolutionary step of capitalism: one great and terrible leap forward from the contemporary ...

Bong Joon-ho has not only never made a bad movie; he has delivered eight feature-length films separated only by degrees of brilliance and your personal preferences. Trying to rank them in any ...

Fans of Bong Joon Ho’s movies (Bong-heads, they call themselves) will now have to deal with dystopian class warfare spearheaded by a Donald Trump leader (Mark Ruffalo) who disdains ...

Yet it would be insufficiently woke for the Creepers to be objects of grossness, so Bong makes these nasty bugs something akin to an exploited indigenous population — so noble, in fact ...

Any “bong water” remaining after a bong has been used to smoke marijuana cannot induce a high, experts say. According to Dr. Melanie Bone, an OB-GYN who practices cannabis-based medicine ...

See our ethics statement. While Mickey 17 is adapted from Edward Ashton’s 2022 novel Mickey7, Ashton’s version is a much more straightforward sci-fi story than Bong’s. In the Korean virtuoso ...

Director Bong Joon Ho made a much-awaited return to cinemas this past week with Mickey 17, his first film since the Oscar-winning Parasite in 2019. Even though Parasite propelled him to global ...

Director Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi thriller “Mickey 17” had a slow start in theaters this weekend, amid a sluggish last few weeks for the domestic box office. The Warner Bros. Pictures film ...

By Pamela McClintock Senior Film Writer Bong Joon Ho’s sci-fi space epic Mickey 17 has finally landed at the box office, where it opened to a sluggish $19.1 million after failing to wow audiences.