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“Minari” Oscar winner Youn Yuh-jung has joined Season 2 of “Beef.”

Netflix officially announced on Wednesday that the series, from Lee Sung Jin and A24, would return for a second season with Oscar Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Charles Melton and Cailee Spaeny.

The logline for the eight-episode Season 2 goes as follows: “A young couple witnesses an alarming fight between their boss and his wife, triggering chess moves of favors and coercion in the elitist world of a country club and its Korean billionaire owner.”

Youn is best known for her Academy Award-winning performance in 2020’s “Minari,” in which she starred opposite “Beef” Season 1 star Steven Yeun. She became the first Korean to win an acting Oscar.

Youn’s credits also include Apple TV+’s “Pachinko,” Kim Ki-young’s “Woman of Fire” and the upcoming “The Wedding Banquet,” as well as “The Housemaid,” “The Taste of Money,” “The Bacchus Lady” and “Canola.” The...

Monday, January 8th, would’ve been David Bowie’s 77th birthday. To mark the occasion, Wilco has shared their rendition of Bowie’s 1969 hit, “Space Oddity.”

The release hails from Wilco’s 2023 performance on Mountain Stage (a public radio show distributed by NPR Music), and will be included on an upcoming compilation announced today titled Live On Mountain Stage: Outlaws and Outliers, due on April 19th via Oh Boy Records.

Presenting a wonderfully Wilco-esque take on “Space Oddity” — itself named the 43rd best song of all time by Consequence in 2012 — the band settles into an acoustic arrangement, allowing Jeff Tweedy’s vocals to masterfully convey the tune’s enduring appeal for humanity.

Speaking about the performance in a statement, the band said: “As a gratefully, if not begrudgingly, Earth-bound band, it’s always an honor and a challenge to tackle any of David Bowie’s space-soaring arrangements. Striving to reach...

Nearly seven years since the release of his 2015 album Complicated Game, James McMurtry has announced plans for a new LP: The Horses and the Hounds will be released August 20th via New West Records. The Texas songwriter previews the upcoming record with the cinematic “Canola Fields,” a song that takes stock of where McMurtry is at in life. Like his past work, from “Choctaw Bingo” to “Hurricane Party,” its lyrics are rich in detail.

“I was thinking about you crossing Southern Alberta, canola fields on a July day; about the...

South Korean director Chang (pseudonym of Yoon Hong-seung) after two thriller/action films, tries his hand here in “Canola”, a classic Korean melodrama that brings together a multitude of challenging and dramatic themes.

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The original title translates as “Grandma Gye-choon” and it’s perhaps more appropriate than the poetic “Canola” which recalls the visual impact of the bright yellow fields of rapeseed (canola) in bloom. The story and the characters all gravitate around Gye-choon (Youn Yuh-Jung), a “single grandmother” who takes care of her granddaughter Hye-Ji (Kim Go-Eun in the grown-up version). The prologue that sets and introduces the story shows us that Gye-choon is a “Haenyeo”, one f the spear-fishers from the community living on the island / province of Jeju. It is the same community that is depicted in the beautiful Koh Heeyoung’s documentary “Breathing Underwater”.

Hye-Ji is has lost her father (the son of...

It is always great to watch veterans receiving international acclaim, and the Oscar, cemented a great year for the 73-year old actress, who received recognition for her great performance in “Minari” from a plethora of the most prestigious awards around the world. This success was the best way to celebrate a career that spans for more than 5 decades and includes a number of great performances. Ten of them are included in this list, as our own way to congratulate this great actress.

1. Myeong-ja in Woman of Fire

Youn Yuh-jung plays Myeong-ja, a country bumpkin that has been the victim of a rape attack, in a series of events that ended up with her killing one of her attackers, and her subsequent self-exile from the area. Through a job broker, she is hired by Jeong-sook, who runs a poultry farm and is also in charge of her household, which includes her composer husband,...

Yuh-Jung Youn has made Oscars history as the first Korean performer to win an Academy Award in one of the four acting categories. Youn took home the Best Supporting Actress prize for her performance in Lee Isaac Chung’s “Minari.” Young was nominated against Maria Bakalova (“Borat Subsequent Movie Film”), Olivia Colman (“The Father”), Amanda Seyfried (“Mank”), and Glenn Close (“Hillbilly Elegy”). Prior to the Oscars, Youn emerged as the category’s frontrunner after winning Best Supporting Actress prizes at the BAFTA Film Awards and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Youn’s Academy Award win for Best Supporting Actress came from one of six Oscar nominations “Minari” received at the 93rd Academy Awards. The film also picked up nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Steven Yeun, Best Original Score, and Best Original Screenplay. Youn’s victory gives distributor A24 yet another acting Academy Award after the likes...

“Ant-Man and the Wasp” enjoyed 69% of the weekend box office in South Korea. Opening on Wednesday, the Walt Disney release earned $20.9 million from 2.63 million admissions over five days. The film exceeded the opening-day score of “Ant-Man” in six hours since opening in theaters.

Korean movies took the following three places. “The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion” slipped to second place, with a modest 40% decline from last week. The South Korean revenge thriller earned $3.61 million between Friday and Sunday for a total of $13.9 million after two weeks on release.

Lee Joon-ik’s “Sunset in My Hometown” debuted in third place. The Megabox release earned $2.13 million between Wednesday and Sunday. Starring Park Jung-min (“Dongju: The Portrait of a Poet”) and Kim Go-eun “Sunset” revolves around an underground rapper in Seoul who is transported back to his suburban hometown against his will.

In fourth place, “The Accidental Detective 2: In Action” incurred a painful...

Throughout his decade-long career, Chang has always pushed genre to its extremes, with the excessive gore in the high-school horror flick Death Bell, the crazed rampage in the policier The Target and the mawkishness in the melodrama Canola. With his latest film, the single-monikered Korean director shows how bombast can transcend borders and cultures. A Chinese-language thriller starring two of China's best-known stars, Reset is a high-concept action pic gone completely haywire — one that is produced by Jackie Chan, no less.

Revolving around a physicist trying to save her son from harm by making repeated trips to the...