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EU Film Festival offers a rich mix
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/06/2016
» June has been a very busy month for film festival enthusiasts. We've so far had the LBGT Film Festival, the Bangkok Silent Film Festival (ending today at Scala), the Singapore Film Festival, and the Human Rights Film Festival -- all in the past two weeks. Now, the last cine-fest of the month arrives today at SF CentralWorld: the annual European Union Film Festival 2016 (EUFF).
Voting booths are open in new romantic divide
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 10/11/2012
» Days ago, while the celebratory confetti over President Barack Obama's second term hadn't yet rained down in Chicago, someone in Bangkok put a rhetorical question to a group of politically inquisitive friends: Would you love and marry a tall, rich, cool, smart, loving, caring, adorable, well-dressed, milk-fed, Javier Bardem-lookalike (for men, substitute the actor's name with a Victoria's Secret supermodel) and - here's the kicker - a staunch Romney-Ryan supporter?
Of witch and vampire
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 11/05/2012
» The Collins mansion is fashionably decrepit and predictably haunted. With the wispy chandelier like fluorescent jellyfish, a wide staircase entwined by carved serpents and crumbling, pre-Victorian opulence, the estate mirrors the inhabitants: Tim Burton's greatest hits of weirdos, lost children, glamourous widows, and embittered souls living out their Gothic soap. The house is a museum of Burton's chic grotesquerie _ childish, moonstruck, cartoonishly scary _ and this time, it is vamped up by a vampire and the 1970s rock'n roll nostalgia. At one point Alice Cooper makes an appearance, and that's one of the few highs Dark Shadows has dished out (and young viewers would go, Alice Cooper who?).