Okja review – giant Korean pig plus Tilda Swinton equals glorious family adventure
As Cannes turns 70, must cinema adapt to survive in new digital era?
Film blog
'Netflix will have to suck it up': why the Cannes film festival is not chill
Cannes film festival takes on Netflix with new rule
April 2017
Sofia Coppola to Michael Haneke: the movies and directors most likely to make it to Cannes
Coppola, Haneke and Todd Haynes are odds-on to be showing this year, but what about Jean-Luc Godard and David Lynch? We weigh the odds on films in the running
January 2017
Global warning
Spoiler alerts: the five best climate-change films
Hollywood – loyal to its eco-sceptic audiences in middle America – has always been frosty towards environmental movies. Here are the most prescient exceptions to the rule
November 2015
Netflix invests $50m in Snowpiercer director Bong Joon-ho's new film
VoD company backs movie about kindly monster, starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano and Bill Nighy, as service moves into Asia
June 2014
First look review
Snowpiercer: first look review - something of absurdist theatre, Terry Gilliam meets Samuel Beckett
Despite the drawn-out production process, the Boon Jong-ho-directed sci-fi fable about a giant train turns out a wonderfully realised delight
November 2013
Why Hollywood doesn't get South Korean cinema
Will Spike Lee's adaptation of Oldboy be just another attempt to 'make coleslaw out of kimchi'?
October 2013
Snowpiercer director reportedly furious about Weinstein English-version cuts
Bong Joon-ho unhappy about heavy editing of his South Korean sci-fi blockbuster by Bob and Harvey Weinstein's film studio
July 2013
Trailer review
Snowpiercer trailer: off the rails with Bong Joon-ho
Stuart Heritage: Future humans live on a train speeding across an icy Earth, with dirt, martial arts and segregation. Like the 08.31 from Forest Hill
November 2012
After Hollywood
Seoul searching: how politics plays out in South Korean cinema
Phil Hoad: Masquerade is only the latest example of the caustic social comment that seeps into the country's mainstream output
November 2011
After Hollywood
Do South Koreans actually love film?
Phil Hoad: South Korean cinema has an international reputation and it's assumed the population is full of cinephiles. But was that ever true – has creeping nationalism soured the industry?
August 2010
Mother
Korean director Bong Joon-ho's tale of a mother intent on proving her son innocent of murder is a sophisticated picture, writes Philip French
Mother
Another fine thriller from South Korean director Bong Joon-ho. By Peter Bradshaw
John Patterson on film
Bong Joon-Ho's tormented Mother has a lot in common with the film noir classic Mildred Pierce
Movie mothers can be angels, saints, sirens, seductresses, psychopaths and monsters. But for John Patterson, there's only one that counts …
May 2009
DVD review: Tokyo!
Rob Mackie: An enjoyably loopy trio of films set in Japan's capital city
March 2007
In brief: The Host proves monster hit at Hong Kong awards
Plus: Keanu Reeves prangs photographer, Howl's Moving Castle director shuns CGI and Britdoc launches recycling challenge for budding film-makers.
It's Seoul destroying
DVD of the week: The Host
The Host
Retail: A thoroughly unusual kind of monster movie from Korean director Bong Joon-Ho.
