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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 3-9, 2013
The GuillotinesLong in the works, The Guillotines brings to the 3D age a legendary ancient Chinese weapon previously featured in 1970s kung-fu flicks, particularly the cult-classic 1976 Jimmy Wang Yu...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 10-16, 2013
The Man with the Iron FistsRap musician RZA has always been into kung fu. The name of his pioneering hip-hop group the Wu-Tang Clan, is taken from the name of a cult-favorite kung-fu film.Now, he takes...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 17-23, 2013
Killing Them SoftlyBrad Pitt stars as a hitman in the low-down and gritty crime tale Killing Them Softly, which boasts a fine cast that also includes Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta and James...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 24-30, 2013
Hansel and Gretel: Witch HuntersAnother Brothers Grimm tale gets the explosive high-octane treatment in the blood-spattered but campy-sounding Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters.The story finds the...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 31-February 6, 2013
ParkerEver-reliable action star Jason Statham takes on a role previously played by such tough guys as Lee Marvin, Robert Duvall, Jim Brown and Mel Gibson in Parker, an entry from the pulp-novel crime...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 7-13, 2013
Jan Dara: The FinaleDirector ML Bhandevanov Devakula wraps up his two-part adaptation of the epic story of lust, incest and sexual abuse in a noble family in the 1930s and '40s.In Jan Dara: The Finale...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Clap! French Film Festival, February 13-20, 2013
The annual French Film Festival gets new name this year, Clap!, evoking the applause-worthy lineup of some of the best French films from the past year or so. It runs from February 13 to 20.Screenings...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Japanese Film Festival, February 15-17, 2013
The Japanese Film Festival takes on a culinary theme this year with seven films involving food or cooking.Abbreviated to just three days, the festival runs from February 15 to 17 at SF Cinema City...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: German Film Week, February 18-24, 2013
Seven acclaimed German movies will unspool over seven days during German Film Week, February 18 to 24 at Paragon Cineplex. Shows are at 7 nightly.Tickets are free and may be reserved through the Goethe...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 14-20, 2013
A Good Day to Die HardAh, Valentine's Day. The perfect day to grab a date and watch a movie with Bruce Willis blowing stuff up.Willis is back as tough wise-cracking police officer John McClane for A...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 21-27, 2013
FlightDenzel Washington is an airline pilot who is hailed as a hero after making a amazing aerobatic crash landing that saves most of his passengers and avoids killing people on the ground. But then...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 28-March 6, 2013
StokerCult-favorite South Korean director Park Chan-wook (Oldboy) makes his much-anticipated English-language debut with Stoker, a Hitchcock-style thriller.The family drama centers on a young woman...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 7-13, 2013
The GrandmasterHong Kong auteur Wong Kar-wai brings his poetic slow-moving arthouse direction to kung-fu for his much-anticipated The Grandmaster, his first feature since 2007's My Blueberry...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 14-20, 2013
Django UnchainedAfter killing Hitler and other top Nazis in Inglourious Basterds, the supreme dork of genre film Quentin Tarantino skewers more history in Django Unchained, a weird blend of...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 21-26, 2013
Movie 43Decades in development, Movie 43 is a project headed up by Peter Farrelly of the Farrelly brothers gross-out comedy duo and their producer Charles Wessell, who backed them on such movies as...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 27-April 3, 2013
Pee Mak Phra KhanongThe often-told legend of the ghost wife Mae Nak Phra Khanong gets an update for teenybopper audiences in Pee Mak Phra Khanong (พี่มาก...พระโขนง), one of the Thai film industry's...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 4-10, 2013
Khoo KamKhoo Kam (คู่กรรม), the tale of star-crossed lovers during World War II, returns to the big screen this week, with Nadech Kugimiya as a Japanese soldier who falls for the fiercely independent...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 11-17, 2013
OblivionTom Cruise offers his twist on Wall-E with Oblivion, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi thriller in which he's a clean-up man of sorts, working a mostly solitary life as he patrols the Earth's ruined...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 18-24, 2013
Grean FictionsChookiat Sakveerakul, the acclaimed director of the teenage coming-of-age romantic drama Love of Siam and last year's award-winning three-segment sentimental drama Home, turns to comedy...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 25-30, 2013
The Place Beyond the PinesMan of the moment Ryan Gosling starred in Drive as a mythical stunt driver and wheelman for criminals. In The Place Beyond the Pines he's a mythical motorcycle stunt rider who...
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