Meanwhile, on blogs and chat forums, fans are wondering whether Phelps’ abnormally large lung capacity means he can take monster bong rips. Can he? He can. Total lung capacity refers to the ...

Bong Joon-ho's monster-sized masterpiece feels more relevant than ever because of its emphasis on the sheer brazenness of evil. The special effects haven’t aged particularly well, but the ...

But Bong makes extra sure it doesn’t count as a spoiler by bucking monster movie conventions and showing us the monster right away. It’s sort of an enormous mutated eel, and after wreaking ...

Seoul — SOUTH KOREAN director Bong Joon-ho says he had wanted to make a monster movie since he was in high school, daydreaming of a creature emerging from the muddy Han River that flows through ...

Starting on February 1, Bong Joon-ho's 2006 monster movie The Host will emerge from the waters onto the streaming service. The Host was the three-time Oscar winner's answer to beasts like Godzilla ...

This monster movie helped Bong reach a wider audience, winning him near-universal acclaim in the U.S. and the chance to work on a larger scale. Even though it has a much smaller budget than a Holl ...

Tilda Swinton's line "I took nature and science, and synthesised," is simple enough, but in the first teaser to director Bong Joon-ho's upcoming Netflix film, Okja, it carries a lot of meaning.

The Host was a terrific monster movie with much to say about environmental decay and government inaction. And then there are Bong's Hollywood movies, like Snowpiercer, which took on class rage and ...

On the evidence of Lucky Monster, Bong shows promise on both fronts. There’s a kinetic liveliness/playfulness in his touch that lends itself to imaginative commercial filmmaking. And he has his eye on ...

Tilda Swinton stars in the first trailer, which gives us a glimpse of the titular monster and its human companion Mija, played by 13-year-old South Korean actress Ahn Seo-hyun. Described as a ...