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Come watch silent classics
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 23/05/2023
» After three years of absence due to the pandemic, The Silent Film Festival In Thailand returns next month with a programme of classic films from around the world screened with live music. Organised by the Thai Film Archive, the 7th edition of the festival will take place from June 2-4, at the Thai Film Archive, Salaya.
Marvel superhero holds fast to Maya roots
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» For her big underwater scene in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Guatemalan actress María Mercedes Coroy had to hold her breath as her character, Princess Fen, gives birth in a hazy ocean world to a winged serpent son.
Flashing the V
Oped, Postbag, Published on 05/04/2023
» Re: "I am not a debater", (InQuote, April 4).
YouTube ramps up ads, moderation
Life, James Hein, Published on 01/03/2023
» If this was a YouTube video you would have to sit through up to 30 seconds of ads before you could even start. YouTube seems to be stepping up its advertising while at the same time providing less service. I still use it because it has things I'm interested in, like Chinese martial arts series and info on music products I like. If I'd written this using ChatGPT you would not see some of the material because the trust and safety filters on the AI product have repeatedly been found to be biased towards the US political left in the content it will return. Some people associated with ChatGPT have acknowledged this but it remains to be seen if anything will change.
Bringing a classic to life
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 19/12/2022
» A decade after the animated film made an impact, kids in Southeast Asia now have the chance to experience Disney's Frozen as Broadway's latest musical is coming to Singapore. It will be staged at the Lion City's Sands Theatre at Marina Bay Sands from Feb 5 next year until March 5. Tickets are now available via SISTIC.
Words you don't really want to hear
News, Roger Crutchley, Published on 04/12/2022
» It's that time of the year when publishers of major dictionaries bombard us with what they regard as the "words of the year". They rarely agree on the same offering, but there is one common theme -- nearly all words selected are frankly rather depressing.
Showtunes delight TCC crowd
Life, James Keller, Published on 25/10/2022
» Conducting maestro Vanich Potavanich and the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra demonstrated most emphatically just how to fill every single seat of the Thailand Cultural Centre earlier this month.
Saving the world in style
Life, Noko, Published on 12/10/2022
» Last Friday, Jeff Satur performed with Thai band Mean in a live session of Fade, which articulates how we may have forgotten how to forget.
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.
A modern fairy tale
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 01/07/2022
» I guess it's that time when Disney thinks traditional glass slippers are not cool for the young generation, but sneakers surely are. From the title of Disney's new musical romantic comedy, Sneakerella, you can tell it has something to do with Cinderella. Yes, it's based on the classic, but it's a new, modernised version. They gender-swap the characters and then dive into sneakerhead culture and dance music. Whether this sounds like a weird combination, well, such a movie now exists.