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New releases for your streaming pleasure: April 10-16
Guru, Pornchai Sereemongkonpol, Published on 10/04/2024
» Looking for a tile to binge-watch this weekend? Here's our pick!
Baldwin film 'Rust' to resume filming this week
AFP, Published on 19/04/2023
» LOS ANGELES - Filming will resume this week on Alec Baldwin's "Rust," producers said Tuesday, some 18 months after it was halted by the fatal on-set shooting of the movie's cinematographer.
Goodbye reggae legend
Life, John Clewley, Published on 15/09/2020
» Toots Hibbert, the soulful leader of the legendary ska/reggae band Toots and the Maytals, died last week in Kingston, Jamaica, at the age of 77 from complications related to the Covid-19 pandemic. His death, following the recent release of Got To Be Tough, his first studio album for 10 years, shocked the global music community.
All aboard the train to nowhere
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 03/06/2020
» A new train has left the platform, plunging its passengers through a frozen wasteland on board the engine that perpetually circumnavigates the planet.
Oscar-winning director Bernardo Bertolucci dies at 77
Published on 26/11/2018
» ROME: Italian film-maker Bernardo Bertolucci, who won Oscars with "The Last Emperor'' and whose erotic drama "Last Tango in Paris'' enthralled and shocked the world, died on Monday. He was 77.
A true one-off: Remembering Gil Scott-Heron
Life, John Clewley, Published on 06/09/2016
» The music and biting satirical poetry of Gil Scott-Heron have been booming from the World Beat beatbox this week. Earlier, I had watched a fascinating 2003 BBC documentary on his life and work, Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. The title was taken from one of his most popular songs which has been covered many times by other musicians, although if he were to write the song today it might be called, "The Revolution Will Be Digitized Or Tweeted".
A copy of his mind
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/04/2016
» In the Indonesian film A Copy Of My Mind, a pirate DVD seller falls in love with a salon worker. Two working-class lovers struggling in a vast city, their relationship is just as heated as the smoke-choking street of Jakarta, and around them looms the tense shadow of politics as a presidential election nears.
A tribute to unsung heroes
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 29/01/2016
» Yes. Finally an Akshay Kumar movie that you really cannot afford to miss. Loosely based on a true story almost lost in the sands of time that went by largely unreported, Airlift brings to life that believable kind of heroism only classics like Schindler's List have artfully managed to depict. Regardless of how true to historical details the movie is, its story of Indian refugees trapped in Kuwait after Saddam Hussein's troops attacked the country in 1990 packs an unforgettable punch.
Art behind bars
News, King-oua Laohong, Published on 11/10/2014
» His hands shape a crescent moon above a swimming naga on a plywood board made mainly of sawdust and glue. He doesn't pay attention to the boisterous group around him as he concentrates on adjusting the waning moon. His eyes are fixed on nothing but the plywood before him.
Biopic takes no prisoners
B Magazine, Jim Algie, Published on 06/07/2014
» Conflicted characters make for some of the best protagonists and hinges for dramatic tension.