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Michael Keaton confronts US opioid crisis in 'Dopesick'
AFP, Published on 10/10/2021
» LOS ANGELES - Before he became Batman, Michael Keaton made his dramatic film debut in "Clean and Sober," an unflinching look at drug addiction during the United States' 1980s cocaine craze.
Check Inn 99 checks out
Life, Published on 01/07/2016
» It has survived revolutions, waded through the Tom Yum Goong crisis, seen one owner murdered, while another went toe-toe with mobsters looking to shake her down.
Putting a diplomatic foot in it
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 13/12/2015
» There is a Thai idiom that translated into English means “foot-stirring”. This is the act of deliberately provoking in an obnoxious manner. The Thai word is guan-teen but don’t go throwing that word around the beer bar just yet, dear reader.
Love in the time of elections
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 18/09/2015
» A small Indonesian film can't claim the spotlight at the star-studded Toronto International Film Festival, but maybe it's something audiences in our region should look forward to. A Copy Of My Mind, the new film by director Joko Anwar, is probably the highest-profile movie from Indonesia this year after its premiere at the prestigious Venice International Film Festival earlier this month and now a run at Toronto, the biggest film event in North America that runs until Sunday.
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.
Runaway Bribes
B Magazine, Andrew Biggs, Published on 20/10/2013
» I grew up in a state that was Australia's most corrupt, or at least the most blatantly corrupt. New South Wales may have approached its graft with stealth, but up in Queensland we were positively celebrating it.