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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening December 24-29, 2013
Blue is the Warmest ColorA 15-year-old girl (Adele Exarchopoulos) experiences a sexual awakening when she passes by a blue-haired older student (Lea Seydoux) in the street. What follows is an intense...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening December 30, 2013-January 8, 2014
The Secret Life of Walter MittyOwing to the New Year's holiday, there are new movies opening today, with another wide release set for the usual day on Thursday.Ben Stiller takes a self-consciously...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 9-15, 2014
Inside Llewyn DavisCritics and cinephiles are absolutely raving about the Coen brothers' latest effort, Inside Llewyn Davis.It's the story of a musician in the early 1960s New York folk scene. Oscar...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 16-22, 2014
12 Years a SlaveFresh off its win at the Golden Globes for best motion picture – drama, 12 Years a Slave is one of the most-acclaimed films this awards season. It will likely be among the leading...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 23-29, 2014
Dallas Buyers ClubHaving already transformed himself from the shirtless fixture of romantic comedies to a versatile character actor and celebrated indie-film leading man, Matthew McConaughey lost an...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening January 30-February 5, 2014
The Wolf of Wall StreetAlthough it's critically acclaimed and has garnered five Academy Awards nominations, Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street has polarized critics and the director's fans.On...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 6-12, 2014
The RocketThe opener of last year's World Film Festival of Bangkok, The Rocket blasts back into Thai cinemas.This crowd-pleasing Australian film is set in Laos and involves an Akka hilltribe boy who is...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Japanese Film Festival, February 20-23, 2014
One of Japan's most-loved film mediums – animation – takes centerstage in this year's Japanese Film Festival from February 20 to 23 at the Lido cinemas in Bangkok."From Classic to Contemporary: A...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 13-19, 2014
Timeline Jodmai Khwam SongjamEverybody's crying in veteran director Nonzee Nimibutr's romantic drama Timeline Jodmai Khwam Songjam (Timeline จดหมาย-ความทรงจำ).Popular soap-opera leading man "James"...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 20-26, 2014
The Monuments MenGeorge Clooney directs and heads an all-star cast in The Monuments Men, a fact-based World War II comedy-drama about a crack team of Allied historians, art experts, museum directors...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening February 27-March 5, 2014
3 Days to KillKevin Costner is in the midst of a comeback, turning up recently as Superman's Earth daddy in Man of Steel and a spy boss in Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.He takes the lead in 3 Days to Kill,...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 6-12, 2014
Mr. Peabody and ShermanAdapted from the archly satirical and lovably goofy Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoons made by Jay Ward in the 1950s and '60s, Mr. Peabody and Sherman is a feature-length treatment of...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 13-19, 2014
The Cheer AmbassadorsPerhaps Thailand's warring political parties could learn a lesson or two from The Cheer Ambassadors, a rousing documentary about the plucky band of misfits who formed the Bangkok...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Salaya Doc 2014
The schedule has been completed for the fourth Salaya International Documentary Film Festival, which runs from March 22 to 29 at the Thai Film Archive in Salaya, Nakhon Pathom and from March 25 to 28...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 20-26, 2014
The Teacher's Diary (Khid Thueng Wittaya)A washed-up wrestler with a broken arm (Sukrit “Bie" Wisetkaew) takes a job as a teacher at a rural school on a houseboat and finds himself feeling lonely after...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening March 27-April 3, 2014
SabotageWriter-director David Ayer (Training Day, End of Watch) teams up with Arnold Schwarzenegger for the gritty, ultra-violent and very sweary crime drama Sabotage.Arnie, channeling his '80s action...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 3-9, 2014
Captain America: The Winter SoldierChris Evans returns as Marvel Comics' World War II supersoldier in Captain America: The Winter Soldier.Two years after aliens nearly destroyed New York City in The...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 10-16, 2014
The LunchboxThere's Bollywood and then there's proper Indian cinema. The Lunchbox firmly fits in the latter category. Not your usual trifle off the Bollywood assembly line, The Lunchbox is a...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 17-23, 2014
TranscendenceWally Pfister, the lensman for Christopher Nolan on everything from Memento to The Dark Knight Trilogy, makes his feature directorial debut with Transcendence, a Nolanesque high-concept...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening April 24-30, 2014
The Railway ManHere's another movie made in Thailand, which dovetails nicely with the ongoing Thailand International Destination Film Festival.The Railway Man is about a British war veteran who tries...
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