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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening May 1-7, 2014
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of ElectroCineplex operators and movie distributors are clearing the decks for this week's release, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, which is very nearly the only new movie...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening May 8-14, 2014
Village of HopeThai indie filmmaker Boonsong "Sueb" Nakphoo tells hardscrabble stories of contemporary rural life, enlisting his family members, friends and neighbors in his native rural Sukhothai...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening May 15-21, 2014
GodzillaPurists – mainly in Japan – have been critical of the new Godzilla even before it was released. This new Godzilla is too fat, they say. Director Gareth Edwards, is just shrugging it off, saying...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: European Union Film Festival, May 23-June 5, 2014
An Oscar-winning drama and more award-winners are lined up for this year's edition of the European Union Film Festival. With 20 films from 14 countries, highlights include Italy’s The Great Beauty,...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening May 22-28, 2014
X-Men: Days of Future PastThe comic-book onslaught continues as Fox's X-Men franchises converge in X-Men: Days of Future Past, with the stars of the original 2000-2006 film trilogy sharing the screen...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening May 29-June 4, 2014
The Legend of King Naresuan Part VSeven years after it first made its bow, director MC Chatrichalerm Yukol's lavishly mounted Naresuan epic rumbles to a close with The Legend of King Naresuan Part V:...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening June 5-11, 2014
Edge of TomorrowWash, rinse, repeat. Tom Cruise is Tom Cruise in another post-apocalyptic tale of the future. In Edge of Tomorrow, he's an ordinary suit-and-tie guy who is drafted into the military,...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening June 12-18, 2014
How to Train Your Dragon 2The Vikings of Berk saddle up for another ride in How to Train Your Dragon 2, a sequel to the acclaimed 2010 first entry in the DreamWorks Animation franchise.Chieftan's son...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening June 19-25, 2014
Hong Hoon Madame Tussauds will disagree, but some folks believe that having a wax figure made out of yourself before you die is bad luck, a notion that is explored in Hong Hoon (ห้องหุ่น, a.k.a. Crack...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening June 26-July 2, 2014
Transformers: Age of Extinction"I've never done a sequel," Mark Wahlberg declares in a studio interview about Transformers: Age of Extinction.And, for now, he's correct, since this fourth entry in...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: House 10-Year Anniversary, July 3-30, 2014
Dogged by an inconvenient location and periodic rumors of its demise, House, the twin-screen "boutique" cinema on Royal City Avenue, has nonetheless survived and attracted a cult following with its...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening July 3-9, 2014
The Last ExecutionerHot off a best-actor win at the Shanghai International Film Festival, The Last Executioner (เพชฌฆาต, Petchakat) is a biopic about Chavoret Jaruboon, who served as a one-man firing...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening July 10-16, 2014
Dawn of the Planet of the ApesGun-toting apes are on horseback in the second entry in the rebooted science-fiction franchise, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, which takes place 10 years after the events...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening July 17-23, 2014
Words and PicturesJuliette Binoche did her own paintings in Words and Pictures. She's an art teacher at a prep school who is challenged by an English teacher (Clive Owen) to a popularity contest about...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening July 24-30, 2014
The RoveraRobert Pattinson tangles with Guy Pearce in The Rover, a gritty Outback western by Australian director David Michôd, working from a script he collaborated on with writer-actor Joel...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Elle Fashion Film Festival, August 1-9, 2014
Crowd-pleasing comedies, biographical dramas and documentaries, all with a sense of style, will be shown in the Elle Fashion Film Festival from August 1 to 9 at SFX the Emporium.Among the highlights is...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening July 31-August 6, 2014
Guardians of the GalaxyThe Marvel Cinematic Universe embraces the weird with its new franchise, Guardians of the Galaxy, in which a disparate band of desperados have to learn to work together in order...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene special: Silent Film Festival in Thailand, August 7-13,...
Three early films by Alfred Hitchcock, including his first feature, are among the highlights of the first Silent Film Festival in Thailand from August 7 to 13 at the Apex cinemas in Bangkok’s Siam...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening August 7-13, 2014
The SwimmersThailand's GTH studio again aims for the eyeballs of the country's most lucrative movie-going demographic – upper- and middle-class urban teens – with their latest thriller The Swimmers...
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Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening August 12-21, 2014
Plae Kao (The Scar)The classic tragic romance of the Bang Kapi countryside in the 1930s, Plae Kao (แผลเก่า, a.k.a. The Scar) is a story best known for its 1977 film version by Cherd Songsri, starring...
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