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No surrender
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 03/04/2026
» It's unclear whether it's a coincidence or not, but the new action thriller They Will Kill You premiered in theatres around the same time as Ready Or Not 2. The overlap is hard to ignore, because both films feel almost identical in many respects, from their trailers to the tone and presentation they ultimately deliver.
In Cannes, it's cinema as usual
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/05/2022
» After the cancellation in 2020 and a bump to the month of July in 2021 -- with smaller attendance as international travel was still interrupted -- the Cannes Film Festival returns to its usual mid-May slot, keyed up and fully prepped to show the world that it's cinema, and the cinema business, as usual.
RBSO offers inspiring sounds from Germany
Life, Published on 20/01/2020
» The Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra will give a concert of all-German music titled "Inspirational Landscapes" at the Main Hall of Thailand Cultural Centre, Ratchadaphisek Road, on Jan 31 at 8pm.
Russian relic comes to Thailand
Life, Published on 17/12/2019
» In celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Russian Orthodox Church in Thailand, Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has blessed the Sacred Ark that contains the cincture, or belt, of the Mother of God that will be exposed for veneration in six major cities in the Kingdom from tomorrow until Jan 19.
Sometimes transcendental, always relevant
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/05/2018
» The American films were on short supply this year at Cannes -- which in turn deprived the assembly line of red carpet material -- but nobody seemed to mind that except, well, some American media and fashion bloggers. That superfluous caveat aside, the recently wrapped 71st Cannes Film Festival was nearly unanimously praised as one of the best editions in recent memory, with a string of good, sometimes very good, titles playing night after night -- and even the bad films weren't so offensively bad, as was often the case. In the midst of soul-searching following the question of relevance (the world wants Avengers), the rise of streaming (the world watches films on phones), the decline of arthouse popularity, Cannes insists on the sacredness of cinema, on the future of the art, and this year it paid off solidly.
The Cannes spectacle begins
Life, Story: Kong Rithdee, Published on 08/05/2018
» The 71st Cannes Film Festival opens tonight and for the next 10 days its red-carpet glitz, cinematic debates and potential controversies will dominate the news cycle -- exhaust it, to be precise. While security was a talking point last year, the world's largest movie event in 2018 has already invoked discussion through several structural changes -- from moving the opening to Tuesday instead of Wednesday, the revamp of the press screening schedule that has never changed for decades, and notably the selection of films that hints at Cannes' readiness to become less predictable.