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1920s Shanghai is calling at the Lucky Duck
Life, Published on 11/08/2023
» Bringing a nostalgic ambience reminiscent of classic Chinese films to Chinatown, the secret Lucky Duck bar recently opened its doors to offer a flavour of speakeasy Shanghai and prohibition Hollywood using seasonal and local ingredients sourced from nearby Chinese herbalists.
We're up all night to get Lucky Duck
Guru, Suthivas Tanphaibul, Published on 15/07/2023
» I'll give you three clues about how to find the newly-opened bar Lucky Duck: follow the grey wall with white pineapple wall sculptures on Maitri Chit Road and Soi Nana n Yaowarat, then find a glossy black door and look for an upstairs entrance that screams "quack, quack!" with a replica of a roasted duck food stall.
New movies out this week: Jun 7-13
Guru, Nianne-Lynn Hendricks, Published on 07/06/2023
» New releases that hit Thai cinemas for your viewing pleasure.
Work of Wong Kar-Wai's set photographer, Wing Shya, on display in Bangkok
Life, Published on 01/12/2022
» Hong Kong-based artist Wing Shya is staging a solo photography exhibition, "Wing Shya The Photography Exhibition", at Hop Photo Gallery, Seacon Square. The exhibition runs from Dec 3 until Jan 29, 11am to 7pm.
Chic and nostalgic
Life, Published on 29/04/2022
» Arriving at Ang Morr, this week’s subject of review, you could tell right away the brand-new establishment had a promising future.
The way it ought to be
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 09/02/2022
» Four years on since the overwhelming international success of the high school crime thriller Bad Genius, director Nattawut "Baz" Poonpiriya returns with a bang in an emotional road trip drama called One For The Road.
Breaking gender stereotypes in toys
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 25/10/2021
» Outdated expectations still influence what boys and girls are allowed to play with which stifles creative expression.
The Year of Great Reckoning
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/12/2020
» For filmgoers, it was a year of mortal dread. The screen went dark, like a coffin nailed shut, and is still like that in many places. Faith in cinema as we've known it was rattled, challenged, and endangered with a Biblical overtone; it's a plague we're dealing with, after all. It was a year unlike any other we had seen before in the 125 years since cinema was invented. And while that sounds dispiriting, 2020 has also been a "Year of Great Reckoning" during which the equilibrium was recalibrated and the idea of moving images continues, as it should, to evolve.
Light flickers in US, fades in Thailand
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 30/11/2020
» For a good part of November, the world was gripped by a tumultuous fanfare that is the US election. And even before the very last votes were counted, relief and joy were already felt in many communities, not only in America but perhaps across the world. For better or for worse, Donald Trump's reign is coming to an end, and the world now looks to President-elect Joe Biden in the hopes that his win will let voices from the marginalised LGBTI community become louder. Biden promised to enact the Equality Act, a civil rights law that will protect LGBTI people from discrimination within his first 100 days in office among other things.
Revisiting Wong's dance of desire
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 30/10/2020
» Drenched with desire, Wong Kar-wai's In The Mood For Love feels like a plush, vivid dream lodged in the deepest recess of a lover's heart. Now, the heart is beating again and the dream is being projected on the big screen some 20 years after the film first stunned audiences at Cannes and launched a wave of copycats around Asia.