Byun Hee-bong

1 week ago | movieweb.com | Byun Hee-bong |Adam Symchuk

Every streaming service has the movies they champion that they know will excite people, along with originals they place at the front of the service when you log on. Certainly, a large majority of these flicks get the deserved hype, but this also tends to bury some great titles in the bowels of their available selection.

1 month ago | collider.com | Byun Hee-bong |Jeremy Urquhart

Movie Bong Joon-ho is an undeniably great filmmaker, and so clearly one of the best and boldest working today that you might even be a little sick of hearing about how good he (generally) is. Not every film of his is perfect, but he takes risks as a director and those risks usually pay off, with the resulting body of work being distinctly his own and thrillingly eclectic as far as genres go. What’s retained across his films, though, is his keenness to explore stories that have social...

2 months ago | cbr.com | Byun Hee-bong |Maggie Dela Paz

Movies Follow Followed Link copied to clipboard Sign in to your CBR account Bong Joon-ho’s acclaimed monster action sci-fi The Host has finally received a new streaming update. The 2006 movie was led by Cannes-winning South Korean actor Song Kang-ho, who has been Bong’s long-time collaborator on multiple movies since 1998, including the Oscar-winning black comedy thriller Parasite. As of Feb. 1, The Host is now available to start streaming on Max, after nearly two decades since making its...

2 months ago | collider.com | Byun Hee-bong |Ryan O'Rourke

After precisely four date changes totaling nearly a year of delays, Bong Joon-ho's sci-fi comedy Mickey 17 is nearly here. Starring Robert Pattinson as the many bodies of Mickey Barnes, the director's long-awaited Parasite follow-up has gone on a journey while hammering out the final cut and working around its lead's schedule, initially setting a release for March 29, 2024, before finally landing on March 7, 2025.

Nov 2, 2024 | editorial.rottentomatoes.com | Tomas Alfredson |Guillermo del Toro |Byun Hee-bong

Welcome to the new millennium. The decade horror came home to America. The decade horror went global. Welcome to the 100 Best Horror Movies of the 2000s. If horror movies reflect the fears and concerns of a people, it’s notable that America claimed torture-porn as their de rigueur subgenre. Something in Saw and its ilk’s slow-roasted dismantling of human flesh appealed to a nation consumed by post-9/11 paranoia and a bombardment of wartime images and atrocity.