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Revenge fantasy is this week's hottest show on Netflix
Life, Suwitcha Chaiyong, Published on 17/10/2025
» If you could have three wishes granted, what would they be? Believe it or not, but for the first wish most people would ask for a large sum of money. The other two wishes are also for themselves. Only a few people are willing to make a wish for others or society. On social platforms, you can see these kinds of comments regarding Genie, Make A Wish, the most popular Netflix TV series in Thailand this week.
Doc film festival offers insights into US society
Life, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 18/05/2022
» The US embassy in partnership with American Film Showcase (AFS) and Documentary Club Thailand presents "American Documentary Film Festival 2022" from May 26 to June 1.
Into the devil's lair
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 05/11/2021
» Like a session of cinematic séance, Rang Zong (The Medium) channels a cemetery-sized roll call of classic horror elements. The film, recently picked as Thailand's representative for the Oscar's International Feature, is proudly possessed by the ghosts of The Exorcist, The Blair Witch Project, the Paranormal Activity franchise, and Ari Aster's Midsommar, but with Southeast Asia's earthy voodooism, plus a serving of Korean-style blood-and-viscera gore as well as an icing of zombie scare-aesthetics. It's a full-course buffet of fright tricks, complete with an apocalyptic, 30-minute-long exorcism orgy that leaves no spell unuttered and no human unpossessed. All of this is couched in a faux-documentary setup, with handheld shots, grainy CCTV footage and characters speaking directly to the camera.
A new spirit of Malaysian horror
Life, Story: Kong Rithdee, Published on 22/06/2021
» The Malaysian film Roh (on Netflix) is a pagan horror with clear Koranic references, a work of foreboding menace set entirely in a nameless forest somewhere deep in the Malay peninsula.
Serial killings or something more sinister?
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 14/05/2021
» Ever since the success of the series Making A Murderer, which ran between 2015-2018, Netflix has kept its foot on the true-crime genre with various cases of serial killers highlighted over the years. Each year, the streaming platform has provided viewers with documentaries like the Ted Bundy Tapes (2019), Don't F**k With Cats (2019), The Ripper (2020), and Night Stalker (2021).
How real is reel?
Life, Aditya Pareek, Published on 17/07/2020
» Veteran journalist and professor of journalism Narendra Kaushik has tried to tackle a very niche subject in his book Mahatma Gandhi In Cinema. The book primarily deals with the portrayal of Gandhi in Hindi cinema and how in sync the filmmakers' version of Gandhi is to the real life all too human, flesh and blood Mahatma as he is recorded in the pages of history.
Isis thwarted
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 26/12/2019
» Until the 20th century, jihadists had no bones to pick with the US. Their ire was directed at the UK and France who coveted their lands, and the Jews trying to carve out their own. They got good press when T.E. Lawrence led the Arabs against the enemy Ottoman Turks. The silent film The Sheik romanticised them. The Riffs were favoured in their uprising against Spain. They didn't participate in the North African campaign in World War II.
Flight of fancy
Life, Bernard Trink, Published on 22/03/2019
» Intelligence agencies the world over see Russia's cloak-and-dagger operations as the greatest danger. But Russia's chief enemy is the US, to which it causes endless mischief, both directly and indirectly.
RBSO presents the Russian masters
Life, Harry Rolnick, Published on 04/12/2018
» Dmitri Shostakovich perhaps offered the secret of Russian music: "When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something."