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Gritty cop drama
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 17/01/2025
» Patrol police show On Call is designed to cater to fans of Southland (2009) and Jake Gyllenhaal's film End Of Watch (2012). Like its predecessors, it delivers a thrilling experience that immerses viewers in the perspective of patrol officers -- those who risk their lives every day.
False Eden, real hell
Life, Published on 24/05/2023
» Sometimes Cannes pulls a poker face and smacks a big surprise down on its famous red carpet, all without a blink or a wink. This year, it comes in the form of a three-and-a-half-hour documentary about Chinese sweatshop workers, shot entirely in a crummy garment district on the mainland's eastern coast.
Chula Film Series concludes with a Filipino drama
Life, Published on 29/03/2023
» The "Chula World Film Series 2023" will conclude with a screening of Ma' Rosa, at Dr Tiam Chokwadhana Auditorium, Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Phaya Thai Road, tomorrow at 5.30pm.
'I didn't kill anyone,' Paris terror attacker claims
AFP, Published on 09/02/2022
» PARIS: The only assailant still alive after the terror attacks that rocked Paris in November 2015 said Wednesday that "I didn't kill anyone, I didn't hurt anyone" as he took the stand for the first time in the trial over the jihadist massacres.
Syria's heroic underground female medics hailed in 'The Cave'
AFP, Published on 17/10/2019
» LOS ANGELES - Oscar-nominated Syrian director Feras Fayyad has risked his life to chronicle the atrocities of the Assad regime, and suffered torture in prison because of his films.
A night of surprises, some splendid
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 28/05/2019
» The odds weren't in Asia's favour, since there were only two films from the continent in competition. But South Korea did it, just like Japan had last year. Bong Joon-ho's Parasite won the Palme d'Or at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival, making it the second year in a row that an Asian film has won world cinema's most coveted prize, after last year's victory of Hirokazu Kore-eda's Shoplifters.
Grim, unrelenting survival story with an outstanding performance by Mads Mikkelsen
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 10/05/2019
» While Joe Penna's directorial debut is just another film about people stranded in the bleak, unforgiving cold, which has similar elements of other survival movies like Cast Away, 127 hours, All Is Lost, or most recently, The Mountain Between Us, but there's something unique about Arctic that makes the film stand out and feel new.
At Sundance, a fresh look at man's first walk on the Moon
AFP, Published on 26/01/2019
» PARK CITY, United States: It's easy to think that 50 years on, we know everything there is to know about the Apollo 11 mission and man's legendary first footsteps on the Moon.
First cave rescue film due in July
AFP, Published on 18/01/2019
» A Thai-born director who took just weeks to shoot the first film about the dramatic cave rescue of the "Wild Boars" football team says his focus is on authenticity and the mission's "unsung" heroes, with book publishers and Hollywood studios jostling to make their versions of the saga.
Rumba in the jungle
Life, John Clewley, Published on 30/10/2018
» Everyone knows about the famous "Rumble in the Jungle", the epic heavyweight boxing match between George Foreman and Muhammed Ali held in Kinshasa, then Zaire, in 1974. The fight was immortalised in the Academy Award-winning film documentary When We Were Kings.