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7-Eleven takes literature to the next level
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 06/07/2015
» Feel like SEA Write is a little too out of your league? Thanks to the countless other badges of honour that acknowledge good writing available in our country, the prestigious SEA Write Award is not the only ticket to literary stardom. 7 Book Awards, an initiative that started between CP All Public Company Limited and the Ministry of Education, has been honouring outstanding literature since 2004. This year's awards ceremony will be taking place later this month.
Happy to serve evil
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 10/07/2015
» Since 2010, these Tictac-shaped, overall-outfitted creatures have burst onto the animation landscape to globally become one of the most loved and recognisable characters in 3D. The Minions came as a side serving to the main plot in Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 but in this prequel spin off, it's a lot of heady fun to see what they've been up to before becoming the haplessly devoted henchmen to Gru.
The dark side
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 22/06/2015
» Amrita Tripathi, 34, was the youngest speaker at last month's Festival of India in Thailand, bringing a modern insight on the country. While her first book, Broken News, was a piece of fiction about a newsroom's not so glittering drama, her latest work, Sibius Knot, is a heavier novel that addresses mental health, dysfunctional families and being in a cult without even realising it.
Nice numbers, no plot
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 26/06/2015
» If you're in the mood for dance-offs and dance sequences in the streets, in practice rooms, in restaurants, in studios, in bars, in front of the Bellagio Fountains, on motorcycles, on TV, on the harbour, on buses, on the stage, on another stage in the US, and amid a monolith of a canyon structure, then ABCD 2 (Any Body Can Dance 2) has more than enough dancing for all.
Living by the sword
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 07/05/2015
» For Tommy Dunne, the weapons master of Game Of Thrones, fiddling around with Swarovski-encrusted swords, bronze shields, bows and spears is all in a day's work. Showrunners D.B. Weiss and David Benioff even roped him into a season four cameo as the blacksmith who reforges Ned Starks's Ice into the iconic swords, Oathkeeper and Widow.
Pinch of literary spice
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 01/06/2015
» For the first time in India, local language authors such as Chetan Bhagat and Amish Tripathi have become marquee names in terms of sales, eclipsing even mainstream Western writers on the market. Books using local, vernacular language are edgy and have a huge following among young readers.
Flight of fancy
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 11/06/2015
» Some things never get old, and the classic farce Boeing Boeing is one of them. Remade and reinterpreted around the world for over 50 years, there was no surprise that the comedy, first written by French playwright Marc Camolleti, would eventually land rather fittingly on Thai shores. A playboy juggling three different air hostess fiancées — I'm not altogether sure that someone Thai didn't come up with this plot.
Sail away with the family
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 12/06/2015
» Even if awkward silences, nosey aunties and shameless pretentiousness is part of the package, it's still hard to not accept an invitation to an all-paid-for 10-day cruise to Greece. If anything, it's the much-awaited all-star cast of Dil Dhadakne Do (Let The Heart Beat) that makes you want to tag along, even if you want no part in their drama. Using an upper crust 30th wedding anniversary as the backdrop, director Zoya Akhtar serves up a condensed trip through every type of familial problem Indian families face in just under three hours.
whipping up a storm
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 16/06/2015
» Why anyone would want to live in Westeros sounds insane (and morbid), but to those that fantasise about it, Jessica Henwick suggests that Dorne is probably the best city to do so.
Tomorrowland magic short-lived
Life, Parisa Pichitmarn, Published on 22/05/2015
» Overbearing social activists, environmentalists and vegans on my Facebook newsfeed can probably instil a message more original — and even inspiring — than what this 129-minute sci-fi romp can. Tomorrowland is a dystopian flick stuck in limbo, masquerading as a wondrous flight but is, in truth, a preachy bore.