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More blood, Bella, more blood!
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 16/11/2012
» The vegan vampire Edward, pale as Pluto, lets his hand creep up the blouse buttons of his bride, Bella, recently converted by love from human to immortal blood-sucker. But lust still courses through their cold-blooded bodies, or so we mortals can only presume.
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Godzilla's nuclear power
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/08/2012
» From the depths of the radioactive ghetto comes the iconic monster. The Japanese calls it Gojira _ Godzilla to the rest of us. A stomping, fire-breathing post-dinosaur mutant, the beast in fact carries under its skin a horde of cultural and historical meanings, mostly horrific, and largely rooted in the nuclear bombings that left Japan devastated after World War II.
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Never mind nipples, the law is an ass
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 29/09/2012
» The debate on free speech is heating up around the world, from the tumult of the anti-Islam video to the US boycott of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's UN speech and the tyranny of extremism laid bare in Salman Rushdie's newly published memoir.
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The beautiful and dangerous side of love
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 20/04/2012
» Love is lost, found, wretched, hopeful, torn asunder by distance, karma, doubt, accent, then reunited by melody and maybe death. Chookiat Sakverakul's generically titled Home _ the Thai name is more twee, Kwamrak Kwamsuk Kwam Songjam, "love, happiness and memory" _ homes in for the bittersweetness present at the various phases of romance, young or not, heterosexual or else. The movie has the flavour of a well-crafted melodrama that makes love cuddly, its dagger hidden. Most romantic movies warn of the monster lying in wait yet make you want to fall in love anyway (from the right angle, a love story is a hairbreadth away from a horror), and Home, all 140 minutes of it, fulfils that function with the efficiency of a Manhattan wedding planner.
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Funeral pyres lit in our dark night of shame
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 12/05/2012
» Light the funeral pyres. Two, not just one. Throw in the conflagration the corpse not of man but of the basic right citizens in any sane society should be able to exercise: the right to speak, and the right to watch film.
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