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A public display of 'Affection'
B Magazine, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 20/05/2012
» 'Affection", a new art exhibition at Bangkok's Centara Grande, combines the talents of three Thai painters who make use of contrasting media and methods to describe elements of nature, animals or the human condition.
From Kowloon To Madrid
Life, Published on 25/04/2012
» TWO FREE FILM FESTIVALS THIS WEEK SERVE UP CINEMATIC TREATS FROM
Underwater elephants
Life, Published on 23/04/2012
» Last week, members of the Art for Ocean group, a gathering of artists who focus on environmental issues, hosted a special workshop to raise awareness of the declining numbers of elephants _ our national animal _ and the destruction of marine life on the coast of Thailand.
We bought a Zoo!
Life, Published on 16/03/2012
» Matt Damon plays the man who buys a zoo. Watched by the whimsical elephants and indifferent giraffes, his character, Benjamin Mee, a father of a seven-year-old boy, slowly rebuilds his life around his newly acquired property. It is a neglected zoo that however comes with a whole array of wild animals and a band of staff, long unpaid by the previous owner.
Three flavours
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/02/2012
» Baseball geeks will revel in the chance to cheer along with the underdog that makes it, the league-stinker that stuns the big-spender, with the help of digital tinkering. But even if you're illiterate in the great American game, this sport drama has enough of a broad sweep to hook you along with Billy Beane, the real-life manager of Oakland Athletics who, in 2001, gambled with the then-unthinkable strategy of computer analysis and took his team on a 20-match winning streak. That Beane is played by Brad Pitt _ boyish, beaming and bright-eyed _ is, if not exactly a grand slam, a pretty swooping homerun.
Rock-Solid Hollywood star
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/01/2012
» Last year in the hyperkinetic film Fast Five, Dwayne Johnson growled and grumbled playing the role of a federal agent chasing a pack of auto-bandits in Rio de Janeiro. Johnson, also known as The Rock, is a prime cut of beef that glitters in the Brazilian sun; yet the man holds his character with gravity, zipping through the breakneck action with all scowl and no smile.