Bong Joon Ho

1 week ago | editorial.rottentomatoes.com | Rian Johnson |Anthony Russo |Joe Russo |Bong Joon Ho

The latest: Materialists is Evans’ 13th Certified Fresh movie!Even if Chris Evans hadn’t played Captain America in the MCU over the last eight years, there’s all kind of evidence he’s some kind of secret comic book nerd. He played the ice-cool Human Torch in two Fantastic Four movies. He was the comic relief in The Losers. He played a jerk-ass ex-boyfriend of Ramona Flowers in Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. Casey Jones was his jam in the animated TMNT movie.

1 month ago | letterboxd.com | Ross Bolen |Bong Joon Ho

★★★½ Robert Pattinson’s voice as Mickey 17 probably cost this movie another half star and millions of dollars in box office.

2 months ago | bfi.org.uk | Christopher Nolan |Werner Herzog |Bong Joon Ho |Thomas Flew

“At the time, [In the Mood for Love] was one of the most difficult productions I’d ever done. But now, when I think back, what I remember are the small moments. Time has a way of softening the edges of memory. Perhaps [it endures] because the film isn’t really about 1960s Hong Kong, but about something more fundamental – how we connect with each other, how we navigate desire and restraint, how we construct narratives to make sense of our lives.

Mar 12, 2025 | rebeccadeniston.substack.com | Bong Joon Ho |Edward Ashton |Rebecca Deniston

Mickey 17 isn’t afraid to die. He’s not keen on it, either, but he’s done it so many times that it’s not the looming spectre of doom that it is for other people. In fact, it’s his job, because he’s an expendable. He’ll just get printed out—well, resurrected,—yet again, memories intact, and go on his merry, if doomed way. So far he’s been poisoned, exposed to radiation in the vacuum of space, exposed to extreme cold, exposed to viruses, and incinerated alive.

Mar 7, 2025 | vulture.com | Bong Joon Ho |Alison Willmore

endings The Parasite director on the Trump parallels and optimism in his new movie, Mickey 17. Bong Joon Ho considers himself an optimist, even if it’s not exactly obvious from his work. “It doesn’t work to deny the dark reality, to just gloss over it,” he explained to me through his go-to translator (and awards season celeb) Sharon Choi. “You need to be vicious in portraying how pessimistic our reality can be, to look at it straight on.