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Remembering the legend Ray Liotta
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 31/05/2022
» Last Thursday, Hollywood and the world were mourning the sudden loss of Ray Liotta, the prolific actor in hit films like Goodfellas and Field Of Dreams. He was 67 years old. So far, it's been reported that Liotta died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic where he was shooting a new film.
A TV show born of pandemic
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 22/09/2021
» Seven years ago, only a few people living outside the Philippines would have heard of director Erik Matti or his crime thriller masterpiece On The Job, despite it being a film to likely revive the long dormant action genre in the Philippines. Thanks to the age of streaming services, the film has recently landed on HBO GO, where Thai viewers can watch it for the first time in the form of a six-part miniseries.
Good cops, bad cops
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 18/05/2018
» Few things are more disheartening than learning that those sworn to protect us from society's predators are corrupt, indeed evil themselves. Then who are the good guys, if any? Many a crime novelist raises this question without presenting a satisfactory solution.
A drama of Kenyan political intrigue
Life, Published on 28/09/2017
» The next programme of the Contemporary World Film Series at TK Park will take the audiences to explore a microcosmic portrait of the macrocosmic levels of Kenya's social landscape in Veve, which will be screened on Sunday at 4pm.
From Bangkok to Cannes
Published on 21/05/2017
» CANNES - It was a startling sight on the red carpet of Cannes Film Festival late Friday night: A Thai actor covered from head to toes with tattoos, only inches of his body left un-inked, sauntered down the tapis rouge to shake hand with the festival’s artistic director. Keng Laiprang -- stage name of a Punya Yimaumpai, ex-convict and internet idol -- walked the famous steps of Cannes as part of the French film A Prayer Before Dawn. With him were two other Thai actors starring in the film, Vithaya Pansringarm and Pornchanok Mabklang, and the film’s director Jean-Stephane Sauvaire as well as the lead British actor Joe Cole.
At Cannes, humour makes a surprise visit
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 01/02/2017
» Humour is hardly ever associated with Cannes competition films -- to win the Palme d'Or, for example, it's assumed a film should possess art house gravitas, serious humanity, or weighty, topical, discourse-stimulating subject matter (last year's winner, Dheepan, is about immigrants in Paris, and before that, the three-hour-long Turkish drama Winter Sleep).
A Washington thriller
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 20/02/2012
» No country is free of corruption, least of all the US as stateside author David Baldacci has been reiterating in his two dozen political thrillers to date. He doesn't name names, but he names titles all the way to the top.