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Bong Joon-ho holds the Oscars for best original screenplay, best international feature film, best directing, and best picture for "Parasite" at the Governors Ball after the Oscars on Sunday, Feb. 9, 2020, at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles. (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Want more Bong Joon Ho? Here’s how to catch up on the work of the Oscar-winning director of ‘Parasite.’

February 13, 2020 at 9:16 a.m.

Though some folks were surprised by Sunday's Academy Award wins for South Korean director Bong Joon Ho and his movie "Parasite," you could see on Oscar night see that fellow...

It’s a Wonderful List: The 10 most overlooked holiday movies

December 6, 2019 at 10:38 a.m.

Holiday movie traditions vary — in my family, for whatever reason, we often watched "The Road Warrior" after opening gifts — but traditions change, and from time to time we...

Best Supporting Actor nominee, eleven-year-old Haley Joel Osment, and Bruce Willis in "The Sixth Sense."

‘The Sixth Sense’ at 20: M. Night Shyamalan’s breakout still stuns

August 2, 2019 at 1:07 p.m.

"The Sixth Sense" - celebrating its 20th anniversary - opens with the shot of a burning lightbulb, which is as good a metaphor as any for a guy with a...

‘Brightburn’ review: Why is Elizabeth Banks in this mess of a movie?

May 24, 2019 at 9:22 a.m.

In a Kansas farmhouse, a young couple is engaged in romantic intimacy when the woman feels the earth move. It's the tremors from an alien spaceship (not a spoiler, it's...

‘The Missing Link’ review: Gentle giant takes predictable turns in search for family

April 12, 2019 at 8:00 a.m.

Laika, the animation studio behind such quirky fare as "Coraline" and "The Boxtrolls," takes a turn toward the mainstream with "Missing Link," resulting in pleasant but forgettable results. It's the...

Nick Cave has been singing about mortality for decades, and he's really good at it. Whether the narratives are biblical or pulpy, the victims innocents or death row convicts, the circumstances comprehensible or cruelly random, Cave's songs are on intimate terms with the infinite ways a life can be extinguished. And yet, "Skeleton Tree", his latest album with his estimable band, the Bad Seeds, is a relatively concise song cycle shadowed by death that feels different than all the rest. <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/music/kot/sc-music-nick-cave-skeleton-tree-ent-0916-20160916-column.html" target="_blank">Read the full review.</a>

‘My Entire High School Sinking into the Sea’ review: Teens struck by jealousy and a natural disaster

June 4, 2018 at 11:44 p.m.

The title "My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea" is its own spoiler, so don't blame me. In making his animated feature debut, Dash Shaw adapts his own graphic...

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