Tonight in Hollywood, and across the globe, it's all about "Parasite." “Parasite” by the Korean director Bong Joon-Ho, netted four Academy Awards on Sunday, winning in the Best Film, Best Director (Bong Joon-ho), Best Foreign Film and Best Screenplay categories. What a winning streak! Joon-Ho made history, too, in the process. This is the first time that a non-English-language film won for Best Film at the Academy

Can we fight evil? Save our lovely planet from ghouls such as Monsanto and other purveyors of various poisons into GMO plants and animals? Can the good people win? Can we save the human race while preventing our animals from being seen only in terms of sirloin or chops? Such is the theme of “Okja,” a Netlix film streaming on the video channel (and causing much distress at the recent Cannes film festival when the jury president

Bong Joon Ho’s “Okja” makes me wish I was ten years-old again, and I don’t say this with irony. This movie is good entertaining fun, sure, but it would likely be thoroughly enjoyed by someone who’s very young, in spite of several adult-size questions the film raises, in passing. In preparing to offer him the role of Johnny Wilcox (a white, flamboyant version of Brian Fellow from SNL’s “Safari Planet") Bong Joon Ho