Jasmyne Keimig

Director Bong Joon-ho at his very best.

Neon Going into Parasite, it’s hard to know what to expect. Advance reviews and discussions of the film—which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes this year, the first South Korean film to do so—speak of the film obscurely. For good reason: There’s a gleeful and terrifying twist—which I won’t spoil—that radically and dramatically alters the […]

Courtesy of HBO That’s all, folks. Game of Thrones cashed in its chips last night, with the HBO show airing its final episode amid a firestorm of controversy. Some fans hated the direction the show took during its final lap, while others were satisfied with all of the explode-y things and unearned character beats. As […]

courtesy of HBO Last night’s episode might have been the most divisive Game of Thrones episode yet (although remember how mad everybody was after the Red Wedding?). As we enter the home stretch, time is starting to feel really compressed, with plot threads and characters behaving unnaturally in order to get this thing wrapped up […]

Helen Sloan/HBO Last night’s episode of Game of Thrones was called “The Last of the Starks,” but it just as easily could’ve been called “Stopgap,” since we got a huge battle last week and we seem to be gearing up for another big battle next week. Things this week were relatively low-key, but there were […]