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Punk's not dead!
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 18/02/2025
» How often do we get the chance to see our favourite band visit our country and perform live, especially when they come from halfway across the globe? Last Thursday, American pop-punk legends Green Day returned to Bangkok for the first time in 15 years. The expansive Impact Arena in Muang Thong Thani transformed into a high-energy haven for rock fans, who packed the venue from wall to wall, singing, jumping and screaming along as Green Day delivered an electrifying two-hour set.
Passion play
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 15/07/2022
» I was a little hesitant before going into Pistol, a music biographical drama miniseries, as I wasn't that convinced how the filmmaker is ever going to pull off such a story. The Sex Pistols was no doubt an important group in rock music history, having so much influence on the 70s UK punk movement as well as DIY and indie rock music a few decades later. However, their career was rather short, lasting a little over two years. Most of the news while they were active was rather negative with coverage focused more on scandals caused by the band members' behaviour than the actual music.
Germaine Krull's works return to Bangkok after decades
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 01/07/2022
» Until Oct 2, see "Germaine Krull: The Return Of The Avant-Gardist", an exhibition co-curated by Anna-Catharina Gebbers and Maren Niemeyer. It showcases the impressive works of Germaine Krull, the late photographer, revolutionary and war journalist whose works are being shown to the Thai public for the first time at The Jim Thompson Art Center.
Reimagining a franchise
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 01/10/2021
» Japanese anime, a genre loved by many, has taken the world by storm, especially over the past few years. And with Star Wars being a pop-culture phenomenon and one of the biggest sci-fi franchises on the planet, some may have wondered how an non-American-made computer-animated Star Wars movie besides The Clone Wars (2008) and The Bad Batch (2021) would look. Fortunately, we now know with the release of Star Wars: Visions, a nine-episode anime series featuring independent stories written for the Star Wars universe and for fans looking for something different. The first season is now available on Disney+, which recently dropped all the episodes.
Long live the difference
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 28/01/2019
» It's only a few weeks until the return of the Academy Awards (airing on the morning of Feb 25 in Thailand). And if you've been following entertainment news, and seen the list of this year's nominations, you might just have noticed that the 2019 Oscars is one of the most diverse yet.