Tag Archives: Parasite
Every Non-English Language Best Picture Nominee Ranked
Where to Start with Bong Joon-ho
Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2020
Before I press on with my usual roundup of the year’s releases, I’ll put forward a few other films that have hit me particularly hard this year. What should you watch to see out this most awful of awful twelve … Continue reading
Sam Sewell-Peterson’s 10 Best Films of 2020
Review in Brief: The Platform (2019)
THE PLATFORM may feel relevant but it’s extremely obvious in its use of metaphor. One character (Zorion Eguileor) has a catchphrase, responding to every passing comment of his cell mate (Iván Massagué) with a derisive “Obviously”. “Obviously” could be this … Continue reading
Windows into Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite
Looking Back and Looking Forward: 2010-2019
We never did decide on a name for this decade that didn’t sound completely stupid did we? Thank goodness for the insight and escapism that cinema offers because the world has been heading for disaster at an alarming rate as … Continue reading
Review: Parasite (2019)
I fell in love with the genre-hopping, tonally-tromboning work of South Korean firebrand Bong Joon-ho at university and ended up writing my dissertation on how his films represent fractured families and Korean culture. I’ve been waiting for PARASITE for what … Continue reading
SSP Thinks Film 