Tag Archives: The Host

Where to Start with Bong Joon-ho

Posted on May 20, 2021 by Sam S-P

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Bong Joon-ho Films Ranked

Posted on February 12, 2020 by Sam S-P

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Review: Parasite (2019)

Posted on January 29, 2020 by Sam S-P

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 →

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Review: Okja (2017)

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Sam S-P

I’ve loved the work of South Korean genre-manipulator Bong Joon-ho since university. Criminally, we never got his last film SNOWPIERCER in the UK (at least not officially), so the fact that his latest, OKJA, has gone straight to Netflix is … Continue reading →

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Top 3: Song Kang-ho

Posted on January 4, 2014 by Sam S-P

This article was originally published on Subtitled Online November 2012. A favourite of Park Chan-wook, having appeared in four of his films, and of Bong Joon-ho, having starred in two of his films – with one more (Bong’s English-language debut) … Continue reading →

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