Day: 5 February 2020

• Film Review: Parasite

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  5 February 2020

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  Reviews, Tom Duggins

  ★★★★★ Arriving in UK cinemas cloaked in the Oscars buzz of a Best Picture and Best Director nomination, Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is riding high in the expectations of cinema-goers. Conditions are almost ripe for a backlash, the sort of overhype that leaves some a little disappointed, but this just ain’t that kind of film. Parasite…

  

• Interview: Song Kang-ho, Parasite

  8 minutes

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  5 February 2020

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  Interviews, Tom Duggins

  Having already topped many end-of-year lists in territories blessed with an earlier release schedule – not long after becoming the first-ever Korean film to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes – the hype for Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is very real and richly deserved.

  

• Film Review: Mr. Jones

  3 minutes

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  5 February 2020

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  Reviews, Rory O’Connor

  ★★★☆☆ Mr. Jones isn’t just middlebrow – it’s the middle of the middlebrow: core-brow; nucleus-brow. Agnieszka Holland’s lengthy but invariably engaging new film concerns the real-life story of Welsh reporter Gareth Jones’ journey to Moscow and Ukraine in 1933 and his discovery there of the Holodomor – otherwise known as the Ukrainian Genocide or Famine.…