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One giant leap for womankind
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 01/09/2020
» Houston, we are ready to launch with the latest Netflix series Away, as it takes its daring crew and audience on an epic journey to outer space. Their destination? Mars. However, this grand voyage comes at great personal cost and sacrifice for the crew who have to reconcile being away from the gravitational pull of home and the people on Earth that have to move forward without their physical presence.
Embracing diversity on the screen
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 23/06/2020
» Thailand and the world have come a long way when it comes to diversity of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression of characters on our screens. On the occasion of Pride Month, Netflix facilitated a talk with filmmaker Chookiat Sakveerakul (Love Of Siam and Dew) and Sanchai Chotirosseranee, deputy director of the Thai Film Archive, where they discussed onscreen representation, visibility and political correctness of today's LGBTI content.
Queer nights at the cinema
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 23/06/2020
» LGBTI Pride Month celebrations are alive on the big screen.
Stories from quarantine
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 11/06/2020
» When the Covid-19 pandemic resulted in a lockdown that put many industries on hold, a group of filmmakers and actors from Nadao Bangkok banded together to make a series of short films from their home. The process is done almost entirely online, with no physical meeting between the cast and crew.
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.
Bring him home
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 28/04/2020
» Plenty of action and explosions blazed their way around town in second-unit stunt director Sam Hargrave's directorial debut feature Extraction. Gunfights.
Relish the chase in dystopian Korea
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 24/04/2020
» Amid a state of chaos, a group of men dream of a better life. Living in a country wrecked by an economic crisis in the dystopian future, they hatch a plan to rob a gangster-run gambling house to grab some cold hard cash. Their new life awaits in another land.
An oasis in the desert
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 20/03/2020
» In Oman, one of the most anticipated events of the year is the Muscat International Book Fair, which was first held in 1992.
More blood will spill
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 13/03/2020
» When Netflix's Kingdom premiered last year, it enticed audiences around the world with its hybrid storyline that mashes a political drama and zombie bloodbath in the Joseon dynasty. The thrill and gore of its strong debut is now returning for a second season, which will be released today on the streaming platform.
A woman's place
Life, Melalin Mahavongtrakul, Published on 30/12/2019
» I felt anger rising in me as I sat through Kim Ji-young: Born 1982. And perhaps that's the film's intention: to rile us up. We deserve to be. We should throw a fit. We should take a stand and finally put our foot down. How else are we ever going to escape this inequality that has been assigned to us since birth? This has to stop.