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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening December 17-23, 2015
Star Wars: The Force Awakens"Just let it in."The continuing saga of faith continues with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, the much-anticipated reboot of George Lucas' science-fiction phenomenon.Even the...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening December 24-30, 2015
IrisIris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 94-year-old style maven of the New York fashion scene, is profiled in Iris.It is directed by acclaimed documentary filmmaker Albert Maysles,...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening December 30, 2015-January 6, 2016
The Peanuts MovieTo close out 2015, some movies are coming out a day earlier on the eve of New Year's Eve, while others are being released as usual on Thursday, which is New Year's Eve. And some new...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 7-13, 2016
Cartel LandOne of the most significant contributions to the Thai movie-going world in 2015 was the formation of the Documentary Club, which brought in a steady stream of buzzworthy new documentaries to...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: January 14-20, 2016
SpotlightNominated for three Golden Globe Awards, Spotlight went home empty handed from the first big show of Hollywood's awards season. But don't count Spotlight out just yet – it's likely to be a...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 21-27, 2016
45 YearsTensions surface between an elderly childless couple as they prepare to celebrate their 45th anniversary in 45 Years, which stars Tom Courtenay and features an Oscar-nominated turn by Charlotte...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 28-February 3, 2016
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of BenghaziMichael Bay takes a break from transforming robots and mutant turtles to direct the fact-based military thriller 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi,...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Japanese Film Festival, Sayonara Setsuko
The Japan Foundations' annual gift to movie-goers, the Japanese Film Festival, comes to SF World Cinema at CentralWorld during next month’s Valentine’s Day holiday, with a selection of nine romance...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 4-10, 2016
The RevenantAfter several months of delays, The Revenant finally comes to Thailand.Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, an Oscar-winner for last year's Birdman, the fact-based historical adventure...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 11-17, 2016
The Act of KillingThe perpetrators of genocide in Indonesia in the 1960s are given a chance to tell their side of the story in The Act of Killing, which has these colorful military figures and...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 18-23, 2016
The Look of SilenceFollowing last week's release of The Act of Killing, here's the essential companion piece, The Look of Silence, which delves further into politically motivated genocide in 1960s...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Wim Wenders: A Retrospective
Wim Wenders, the award-winning German auteur who has explored existential rootlessness in such films as Wings of Desire and Paris, Texas, will be paid tribute in a series of screenings organised by the...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 25-March 2, 2016
AnomalisaCharlie Kaufman, the innovative writer-director behind such mind-bending existential conundrums as Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation and Synecdoche, New...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 3-9, 2016
Hail, Caesar!With Hail, Caesar!, the Coen Bros. return to the Hollywood Golden Age at Capitol Pictures, which they first mined for screwball-comedy hijinks in Barton Fink, which was set in the...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 10-16, 2016
The Hunting GroundRape culture at American colleges is exposed in The Hunting Ground, a documentary on campus rape crimes, institutional cover-ups and the toll that rape and sexual abuse takes on...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 17-23, 2016
Jane Got a GunNatalie Portman is a young frontierswoman in Jane Got a Gun. Although she's got plenty of sand, she has to get help from her gunslinger ex-boyfriend when her farm and her husband (Noah...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: March 24-30, 2016
Batman v Superman: Dawn of JusticeGood old Batman. Just a regular dude, looking out for the rest of us mere mortals. He's always suspicious, always wary. And for every superhero or supervillain that...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 31-April 6, 2016
All Things Must PassRemember Tower Records? In the days before streaming music services, MP3s and digital downloads, Tower Records and other record stores were the places to get your music fix. There...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 6-12, 2016
Luang Phee Jazz 4GToday's Chakri Memorial Day public holiday kicks off anticipatory celebrations of next week's Songkran Thai New Year, which is a three-day public holiday from next Wednesday to...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 12-20, 2016
The MermaidHong Kong comedy great Stephen Chow returns to the scene with The Mermaid, the story of a pretty young mermaid (Lin Yun) who is sent to the city to seduce and kill a playboy developer (Deng...
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