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Keeping talking will stop the bullets in South
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/07/2013
» Like watching a child carrying an expensive crystal glass into a minefield, we watch the 40-day violence-free period in the deep South with bated breath.
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Rebels of the neon god
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 10/05/2013
» Vithaya Pansringam has the honour of beating Ryan Gosling into a sorry mess. "I feel privileged!" says the 54-year-old kendo expert, ballet school administrator and now first-bill actor of the film Only God Forgives. "Usually, Ryan beats people into a pulp _ did you see Drive? Well, this time he got it, and I got away!"
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Space Oddity
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/04/2013
» The vast, wasted and elegantly desperate post-alien-invasion world is the setting of Joseph Kosinski's Oblivion. In the science-fiction film that opened in Thailand yesterday, Kosinski puts Tom Cruise in the role of Jack Harper, a patrolman and drone-fixer left to station Earth after everyone else has headed for the safe haven of Titan, Saturn's largest moon. Kosinski's debut feature in 2010 was Tron: Legacy, a film that picked up the hallucinatory imagination of sci-fi devotees nearly 30 years after the original.
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Weep for the fallen, never stop caring
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 04/05/2013
» We weep for the South. We send prayers and we will remember, or try our best to remember, all the deaths and not consign them to the faceless realm of statistics. On Wednesday night, ruthless, lawless, godless insurgents killed six civilians, including two-year-old Jakarin Hiangma, in a sign of escalating violence that leaves Buddhists and Muslims alike in shame and shock.
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Troubled Territories
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/02/2013
» The Preah Vihear conflict and the heartache of democracy are the themes of two new Thai films set to premier at the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival this week.
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Highlight reel
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 21/12/2012
» Critics are not saboteurs, though sometimes we can be. I do not dream about movies _ there are more pleasant and sexier subjects _ and I enjoy Brave and The Avengers and The Expendables 2 and The Amazing Spider-man as much the average boy in your next seat. There are only movies I (or you) like and that I (or you) don't like, and if one day, I hope not soon, you put me in the ring at Lumpini Boxing Stadium, gloved, gagged, naked, oiled, and beat me up to pay for my ignorance, then let it be. But at least today in this traditional year-end pondering, please allow me to talk about movies that you mightn't have seen.
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Softly does it
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 18/01/2013
» The oddball killers and garrulous crime bosses in Killing Them Softly remind us of Quentin Tarantino's back catalogue, with less sharp-edge conviction and self-conscious giggling. Those drawn to the film only because it has Brad Pitt splashed on the poster (see page 4) will have head-scratching moments _ and not all of them unpleasant.
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Out of Isan
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/10/2012
» In the Northeastern province of Khon Kaen, a young man returns home from Bangkok and the ghosts, dust, dreams and unrequited romance of his past visit him. Meanwhile, the television reports on the convulsive riots in the capital fuelled by, among other things, the bottled hurt and long-locked anger of the Isan populace.
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Take good care of Mr Bean's right to insult
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 03/11/2012
» Without a wink, Mr Bean is asking for the right to insult. At Westminster, the King of Caustic Put-Downs and (sometimes, like at the Olympics) the Grand Duke of Fart Jokes, launched a campaign to object to a section of the Public Order Act that, he says, has fostered intolerance and advanced "the creeping culture of censoriousness" by outlawing insults. Startling - for Mr Bean operates in England, the fertile hotbed of sardonic wit, televised mockery and creative foul-mouthedness. Try Southeast Asia, my Duke, my Blackadder, my Johnny English - and you'll choke and churn, roil and run riot. Do less than what you've been doing, and here you'd meet a fate much worse than an Elizabethan dungeon in the Tower of London.
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Ramadan in the city
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 06/08/2012
» In his car he arrives just when the light turns serene orange. Thanarat Wacharapisut is in white shirt and brown slacks.
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