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1. lifestyle | 14 Jun 2013
Jesus christ superman
REVIEW
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» Zack Snyder's Man Of Steel takes pride in giving us doom and gloom, and the tale that was one of our most exciting childhood memories has been turned into rather joyless bombast. Keen to insert biblical references, w...
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2. opinion | 08 Jun 2013
Talentless show exposes our cultural sadism
COMMENTARY
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: News
» We thought television couldn't sink any lower, but somehow it did.
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3. lifestyle | 07 Jun 2013
Kitschy tease fails to deliver
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» A bit of B-noir, a lot of high trash, a smattering of lesbian smooching _ oh, and the belated arrival of several Hitchcockian flourishes _ don't succeed in luring us into the booby trap that is Brian De Palma's l...
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4. opinion | 01 Jun 2013
'Blue' gives us all a glimpse of possibility
COMENTARY
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: News
» On the screen, the two women made love with such passionate intensity that the whole cinema was stunned into silence. The rubbing of flesh, the whispering, the discovery of physical longitudes and uncharted territories, ...
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5. lifestyle | 31 May 2013
The magic has gone
MOVIE REVIEW
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» These prestidigitators pique our interest: four magicians with cocky talents put on a show in Las Vegas in which they transport a randomly picked member of the audience to a Paris bank and steal 3 million from its vault....
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6. lifestyle | 31 May 2013
Acting all grown-up, sort of
MOVIE REVIEW
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» The Wolfpack is back on the road, but this time there's no pre-wedding indulgence or morning-after discombobulation. There's no exotic hooker, no vomitous excess _ there's not even a single incident of a hang...
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7. opinion | 26 May 2013
Cannes report: Festival favourites
By Kong Rithdee
» After 11 days of hits and misses, of expectations fulfilled and dashed, the 66th Cannes Film Festival will announce the Palme d'Or winner on Sunday.
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8. lifestyle | 24 May 2013
Slow-burn fear
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» Bangkok, basked in theatrical blood and phantasmagoric red colour, is a vision of hell in Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, a violent thriller that premiered at the 66th Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday.
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9. lifestyle | 22 May 2013
There's no truth, There's only cinema
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» Cambodian director Rithy Panh's new documentary film pays tribute to and questions the power of image. With a tender, evocative and self-reflective tone, the film is about images that can be shown and that cannot, th...
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10. lifestyle | 22 May 2013
Cannes and misdemeanours
By Kong Rithdee, Newspaper section: Life
» At the 66th Cannes film Festival, off-screen drama attempts to steal the limelight from on-screen offerings. Last Friday, the news of a diamond robbery at a hotel room from which a burglar made off with US$1 million (abo...
