Over the weekend, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite – already the first South Korean film to be nominated for an Oscar in any category – made Academy Award history once more by becoming the first non-English language […]
Bong Joon-ho
Ever since George Melies brought us on A Trip to the Moon 116 years ago, sci-fi has remained a staple genre in the history of filmmaking, and Asian cinema has been no exception. Japan in particular led […]
Watch Korean Films on FilmDoo While the Korean horror movie explosion of the late ’90s and early aughts occurred largely in tandem with (and perhaps in the shadow of) the post-Ringu flourishing of ‘J-horror’, it was […]
By David Pountain The history of foreign filmmakers managing to find critical and commercial success in Hollywood goes at least as far back as the early 1920s when the great Ernst Lubitsch made the journey […]