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		<title>Raging Phoenix (2009) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:32:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can’t blame the Thais for continuing to produce action movies like “Raging Phoenix”. There are basically only two genres coming out of Thailand that sells nowadays – martial arts movies and horror films. Everything else just doesn’t translate very well. One of the industry’s newest import is female ass kicking wonder Jeeja Yanin, who burst onto the scene last year with “Chocolate”, directed by “Ong Bak” head honcho Prachya Pinkaew. The film benefited greatly from Yanin’s unassuming features. For “Raging Phoenix”, we already know the deal, so director Rashane Limtrakul and action choreographer Panna Rittikrai (another “Ong Bak” vet) had to throw us a twist – a new form of martial arts that combines Muay Thai with breakdancing. Or at least, that’s the idea.
The plot for “Raging Phoenix” is as superfluous as they come – neglected rich girl Deu (Yanin) spends her time playing (badly, I might add) drums for a pop band, when she’s nearly abducted one day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coming Soon (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Thai horror “Coming Soon” certainly has an impressive pedigree, with debut director Sophon Sakdaphisit having written two of the country’s best recent genre hits in the form of “Shutter” and “Alone”, and with producer Yongyoot Thongkongtoon having worked on the recent “4bia” as well as the popular comedy “The Iron Ladies”. The film was a domestic box office hit upon its original Halloween 2008 release, boosted no doubt by its young cast, including Chantawit Thanasewee (also in “Hormones”) and pop singer Punch, here making her first screen appearance. Thankfully, their presence doesn’t mean that the film is a lightweight teen friendly affair, with Sakdaphisit doing his best to notch up plenty of honest popcorn dropping moments. 
The film is set in a cinema, where cash strapped, ex-junkie projectionist Shane (Thanasewee) reluctantly agrees with his friend Yod to try and make a pirate copy of the new horror ‘Revenge of Evil Spirit’ which has just arrived for a preview screening. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Phobia (aka 4Bia, 2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 21:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Horror anthologies can be rather hit and miss affairs, ranging in quality from the excellent “Three” to the rather shabby “Black Night”. The awkwardly titled “4 Bia” (apparently playing on the word ‘phobia’, though causing no end of problems with pronunciation and search engines in the process) from Thailand is the latest film to take a stab at attempting the difficult task of delivering a package of consistently entertaining and sufficiently original short shockers. In its favour, the film does showcase the talents of four of the country’s most promising new helmers, most prominently Banjong Pisanthanakun and Pakpoom Wongpoom, whose “Shutter” and “Alone” have ranked among the very best Asian horror films from any country of the last few years. They are joined by Yongyoot Thongkongtoon, who directed the popular “Iron Ladies” and Paween Purijitpanya, previously responsible for the above average ghost romp “The Body” rounding off what on paper at least looks like a fairly safe bet for imaginative [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chocolate (2008) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Chocolate” is a film which has been causing considerable excitement amongst martial arts fans, unsurprisingly given that it is Thai director Prachya Pinkaew’s follow up to his worldwide hits “Ong Bak” and “Warrior King”. Having made a star of Tony Jaa, he here aims to do the same for female Muay Thai fighting sensation JeeJa Yanin, casting her in a similar role which basically sees her as an innocent taking on hordes of faceless opponents in a showcase for her skills. The film is being released on DVD and Blu-ray in the UK via Showbox&#8217;s Cine Asia label, and comes with a variety of special features, including several featurettes on the cast, the making of and the martial arts choreography, as well as the usual deleted scenes. 
The plot, such as it is, follows JeeJa Yanin as a young autistic girl called Zen, who has learned martial arts by watching the films of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and, funnily enough, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghost of Mae Nak (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thai horror &#8220;Ghost of Mae Nak&#8221; was originally released back in 2005 when the modern Asian ghost genre was very much still in full swing, and with the country just having scored one of the best efforts of the form to date with the excellent &#8220;Shutter&#8221;. The film was, and indeed still is of interest for a couple of reasons which help it to stand out from the crowd, namely that it was actually directed by a Brit, Mark Duffield, and in that it offers a modern update on an old Thai legend. Of course, said legend had already been filmed no less than twenty times, most notably in 1999 by director Nonzee Nimibutr (who contributed segment &#8220;The Wheel&#8221; to the acclaimed 2003 horror anthology &#8220;Three&#8221;), which of course begs the question as to what could possibly be left to say on the subject.
The plot basically drags the old legend in to modern times by following Mak (Siwat Chotchaicharin) and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>13 Beloved (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 16:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although perhaps not as internationally recognised as that of other Asian countries, Thai genre cinema has over the last few years been responsible for a growing number of popular hits and cult favourites including the likes of &#8220;Alone&#8221;, &#8220;Dorm&#8221;, &#8220;Sick Nurses&#8221; and others. Added to that list is &#8220;13 Beloved&#8221; from director Chukiat Sakveerakul (more recently responsible for the romance &#8220;The Love of Siam&#8221;, and who wrote the screenplay for the all-action &#8220;Chocolate&#8221;), a violent, darkly comic suspense thriller which has already won an international release (under the somewhat more exploitative title &#8220;Game of Death&#8221;) as well as having been snapped up for a Hollywood remake. 
The film centres upon Phuchit (Krissada Terrence), a downtrodden young man whose problems with work, money, love, family and indeed life in general most viewers will sadly be able to sympathise with all too easily. One day after losing his job, he receives a mysterious phonecall telling him that he has been selected for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sick Nurses (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 16:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although the modern Asian ghost genre continues to languish in the creative doldrums, it does throw up the occasional gem, such as the delirious &#8220;Sick Nurses&#8221; from Thai directors Thospol Siriwiwat and Piraphan Laoyont. A truly whacked-out and imaginatively grotesque variation on the tired old themes, the film has been gathering somewhat of a cult reputation, playing at festivals and having already earned itself an international DVD release. 
The basic set up sounds depressingly familiar &#8211; a group of nurses at a hospital are haunted and killed by the vengeful ghost of Tahwan (Chol Wajananont), a colleague they murdered after she discovered their black market organ trading. Making matters even more tragic is the fact that the killing was masterminded by her own sister Nook (Chol Wajananont) as a means of stealing her man, the suave doctor and head of the cadaver selling operation, Tah (Vichaya Jarujinda). According to local legend, a ghost has until midnight to return and visit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alone (2007) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2007 17:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Alone&#8221; has been causing considerable excitement amongst horror fans as it marks the return of Thai directors Banjong Pisanthanakun and Parkpoom Wongpoom, whose 2004 debut outing &#8220;Shutter&#8221; still stands as one of best modern Asian ghost films. Advance word on the film has been very good, with it generating positive buzz on the international horror festival circuit, winning four prizes at the 2007 Screamfest including Best Director and Best Picture. For the all important lead role, the directing duo managed to lure Thai-German actress and singer Marsha Wattanapanich, who returns to the screen after a lengthy fifteen year absence. Pedigree and cast aside, the film has always been likely to face a stiff challenge through the fact that the last few years have undeniably seen the Asian ghost genre become depressingly stagnant, and as such Pisanthanakun and Wongpoom have been faced with the unenviable uphill task of injecting new life into the form and winning over viewers who are by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dorm (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 00:57:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although many viewers are understandably becoming less and less enthusiastic about the modern Asian ghost film, with the genre long having become the exclusive domain of murderous long haired female spectres, there is still plenty of room for innovation in the form, as demonstrated here by the excellent Thai horror &#8220;Dorm&#8221;. Directed by Songyos Sugmakana, who was also partly responsible for the 2003 smash hit &#8220;My Girl&#8221;, the film rises above the usual clich&#8217;d drudgery to provide a genuinely chilling and affecting viewing experience. &#8220;Dorm&#8217;s&#8221; quality can be seen in the fact that it is one of the few ghost films to shake off the critical shackles of the genre, having been awarded the Glass Bear award at the recent 2007 Berlin Film Festival, with Sugmakana also garnering a Special Mention prize for his efforts. 
The plot begins with a twelve year old boy called Chatree (young actor Chatree Trairat, also in &#8220;My Girl&#8221;) being driven to a new boarding [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Invisible Waves (2006) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 23:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Invisible Waves&#8221; is the latest offering from Thai director Pen-ek Ratanaruang, who scored a cult hit in 2003 with the excellent &#8220;Last Life in the Universe&#8221;. The two films actually have a lot in common, both being surreal mood pieces, beautifully lensed by master cinematographer Christopher Doyle, and featuring pan-Asian casts headed by Japanese actor Asano Tadanobu. Here, Ratanaruang has made an even more internationally-flavoured film, bringing in Korean actress Gang Hye Jung (&#8221;Oldboy&#8221;) and Hong Kong veteran Eric Tsang (&#8220;Infernal Affairs&#8221;), and locating the action in Hong Kong, Macau and Thailand. 
The dreamlike plot follows Kyoji (Asano), a chef in a gangster-run Macau restaurant, who is rather unwisely having an affair with his boss&#8217;s wife. After their illicit relationship is uncovered, the boss orders him to kill her, and then sends him on a decrepit ocean liner to begin a new life in Phuket, Thailand. Unfortunately, things don&#8217;t go as planned for Kyoji, as he encounters all manner of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art of the Devil 2 (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2006 07:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Art of the Devil 2&#8243;, the sequel to an obscure occult thriller which nobody appears to have seen, made quite a stir when its incredibly gory posters and trailer appeared on the internet a while back. These featured all kinds of surreal tortures, with eyes being sewn into foreheads and lizards clawing their way out of screaming victims&#8217; bodies, and seemed to suggest that the film was a Thai answer to the &#8220;Guinea Pig&#8221; series. Unfortunately, though perhaps inevitably, since nothing could ever match the unpleasant images drummed up by its shocking adverts, the film itself turns out to be a let down, with a few inspired moments of sadistic splatter smothered by confused plotting and the bizarre belief of the directing &#8216;Team Ronin&#8217; as they like to call themselves, that the viewer wants to see anything but death, death, death.
The plot is centred upon Miss Panor, a beautiful young teacher who attracts the attention of all the local men. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SARS Wars (2004) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 May 2006 22:26:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;SARS Wars&#8221; sees the ever expanding Thai film industry take a stab at the zombie subgenre which has been given somewhat of an action packed facelift in recent years. Thankfully, unlike a great many of the recent genre films from Thailand which appear to have been shot on video, writer/director Taweewat Wantha actually has a pretty decent budget to work with, resulting in a film with a slick, professional look that even manages some fairly impressive CGI work.
The plot is standard stuff, with the denizens of a high rise apartment block under siege after the titular disease mutates into an infectious form which turns its victims into flesh eating ghouls. Thrown into the mix are a bunch of dim-witted kidnappers and virginal warrior Khun (Supakorn Kitsuwon, also in the Thai classic &#8220;Tears of the Black Tiger&#8221;), whose master sends him on a mission to rescue Liu (Phintusuda Tunphairao), the nubile, school uniform wearing kidnapped victim. In the best tradition, it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tiger Blade (2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 20:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Tiger Blade&#8221; is the latest attempt by Thai filmmakers to capitalize on the sudden success of Thai action films, made popular by Tony Jaa&#8217;s exhilarating &#8220;Ong Bak&#8221;, and recently followed up with the satisfying ass kicker &#8220;Tom Yum Goong&#8221;. Theeratorn Siriphunvaraporn&#8217;s &#8220;Tiger Blade&#8221; promises to take a more fantastical approach to carnage making, utilizing your standard cops and robbers setting but involving characters with magical abilities, such as one tough&#8217;s power to &#8220;cancel out&#8221; bullets with a magical talisman, while another has made himself bulletproof with the help of black magic. Alas, for a movie titled after a magical sword, it&#8217;s amusing to note that the sword makes only occasional cameo appearances.
To combat a new, evil scourge led by a rebel foreign Commander intent on rebuilding his Thai-subjugated nation, supercop Yos (Atsadawut Luengsuntorn), who is a sort of freelance superagent for the Thai Government, seeks out and finds (in record time, no less) the Tiger Blade, which has the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Garuda (2004) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 06:10:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Savitski</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The DVD cover for the Thai monster movie &#8220;Garuda&#8221; shows a gigantic, bird-like creature perched over a modern city, ready to wreak havoc upon the unsuspecting populace. It looks very much like your average Japanese kaiju film, the kind that usually involves an atomic breath lizard or giant furry moth, but unfortunately &#8220;Garuda&#8221; is anything but a kaiju film, both in genre and spirit. Although it has some interesting ideas and mostly decent performances from the live humans in the cast, inconsistent direction by the director and a poor script (also by the director) ultimately dooms &#8220;Garuda&#8221; to a life of mediocrity &#8212; if that.
&#8220;Garuda&#8221; starts promisingly enough, with a brief background on the eponymous monster, which we are told was imprisoned beneath Bangkok many thousands of years ago. Fast-forward to the present day, where a mysterious fossil is discovered deep beneath Bangkok , prompting a commando team specializing in supernatural incidents to be called in. Also along for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tom Yum Goong (aka The Protector, 2005) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2005 00:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nix</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As convoluted, improbable, and questionably scripted as &#8220;Tom Yum Goong&#8221; is (and there&#8217;s little doubt it&#8217;s all those things), there&#8217;s a roughly 10-minute sequence near the hour mark where Kham (Tony Jaa) makes his way through an elaborate building that serves as the bad guys&#8217; ultimate lair. A spiral monstrosity that extends upward to a final floor that holds a terrible secret, the entire sequence is shot by director Prachya Pinkaew in one long, continuous take without a single cut or edit. It&#8217;s a marvelous example of filmmaking, and is one of many things that make &#8220;Tom Yum Goong&#8221; as good as you thought it would be. Bigger, tougher, louder, and more elaborate seems to be the mantra, and oh my do the filmmakers, from the director to its star to the army faceless stuntmen, take it to heart.
As with &#8220;Ong Bak&#8221;, Jaa and Pinkaew&#8217;s last collaboration, their sophomore effort begins with the theft of something valuable (in this case, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bang Rajan (2000) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2005 05:37:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While originally made in 2000, the Thai war epic &#8220;Bang Rajan&#8221; didn&#8217;t get much exposure outside of Asia despite being the most successful film in Thai history at the time. That is, until maverick U.S. director Oliver Stone (&#8221;Natural Born Killers&#8221;) championed its distribution in 2004. The movie tells the tale of a legendary, but ill-fated skirmish between invading Burmese hordes and the small Thai farming village of Bang Rajan in 1765. Despite being outnumbered 100 to 1, the scrappy villagers manage to hold off repeated attacks from the significantly better armed Burmese army for nearly 8 months. A watershed moment in Thai history, the incident is still used today as a patriotic rallying point by Thais. 
Director Thanit Jitnukul&#8217;s film covers similar themes as &#8220;The Legend Of Suriyothai,&#8221; but whereas that film was more interested in the political machinations of Thailand&#8217;s struggle against Burma, &#8220;Bang Rajan&#8221; is all about the action. Jitnukul sets the tone immediately, opening the film [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unhuman (2004) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2005 02:35:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Science fiction is a dangerous genre. It takes a degree of thought and subtlety to pull off a good film. However, the genre is so ripe with ideas that any Tom, Dick and Harry who get their hands on a camera and a chunk of cash can subject an unwitting audience to their take on &#8216;Sci-Fi&#8217; cinema. And so it is the case with &#8220;Unhuman,&#8221; the latest entry into the Science Fiction Hall of Shame courtesy of Thailand.
&#8220;Unhuman&#8221; starts with a group of friends meeting up at some temple ruins in the Thai countryside for an evening of stargazing and amateur archeological exploration. Things take a turn for the weird when a meteor crashes into the mountain side, and soon the kids get themselves entangled in unsavory business when they come across some deranged villagers, a group of sinister looking scientists, an elite commando squadron and a trio of mutilated bodies. What could it all mean? What&#8217;s going on in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tears of the Black Tiger (2000) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2005 05:13:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There has been a long established two-way street between Hollywood and Asian cinema. The venerable Akira Kurosawa took the inspiration for many of his films from the epic features of John Ford, and Hollywood filmmakers from Clint Eastwood to George Lucas have studied hard at the school of Kurosawa. The Thai film &#8220;Tears of the Black Tiger&#8221; takes this artistic transaction and expresses it with a severely fractured view. Basically a send up of Spaghetti Westerns and &#8217;50s Thai and Bollywood cinema, &#8220;Tears&#8221; pokes fun at the various genres by presenting their well-worn conventions at face value.
The story is as old as film itself. As children, Dum (Chartchai Ngamsan), a peasant, and Rumpoey (Stella Malucchi, last seen in &#8220;Angulimala&#8221;), whose rich family Dum&#8217;s family works for, fell in love. Times being what they were, their parents kept them apart and Rumpoey is eventually betrothed to the clean-cut police chief. Of course, Rumpoey still loves Dum and Dum, now a bandit, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>6ixty9 aka 69 aka 6ixtynin9 (1999) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:55:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Mudge</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;6ixtynin9&#8243; is an early film from Thai director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, who has recently won acclaim for &#8220;Last Life in the Universe&#8221;, his stunning slice of cross-culture ambience. &#8220;6itynin9&#8243; has actually been around for a few years on the festival and art house cinema circuit, having won prizes at the Berlin and Hong Kong events, and has helped to introduce Western audiences to the fact that there is more to Thai cinema than the ghost stories of the Pang Brothers. Strangely enough, the literal English language translation of the film&#8217;s title is &#8220;Funny Story Six Nine&#8221;, which although perhaps not as intriguing, actually makes a great deal more sense, as &#8220;6ixtynin9&#8243; is not a sex film, but rather a dark comedy about fate and corpse disposal. Lack of skin aside, the film is unlikely to disappoint fans of Asian cinema, being well directed and intricately plotted, and despite a few unfortunate failings, it stands as a minor gem which is well [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legend of Suriyothai (2001) Movie Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2005 02:29:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gopal</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Weighing in as the most expensive film in Thai history, and made with financial support from the Thai Royal Family itself, &#8220;The Legend of Suriyothai&#8221; is a historical epic from the old school. Helmed by Prince Chatrichalerm Yukol, &#8220;Suriyothai&#8221; is a stunning film of immense scope, in the overblown tradition of Cecil B. DeMille. Pitched as a history lesson in motion for the youth of Thailand, the film is actually a thinly veiled piece of propaganda to rally the hearts and minds of the citizenry against perennial antagonist Burma.
Set during the mid-16th century, &#8220;Suriyothai&#8221; covers a particularly tumultuous time in Thailand&#8217;s history, when the country was divided into many small kingdoms loosely affiliated with a central monarchy. With this shaky alliance wearing thin and the kingdom under constant attack from the bellicose Burmese, the monarchy is on the brink of collapse. During this trying time, the Queen Suriyothai (played by real life Princess M.L. Piyapas Bhirombhakdi) became a legendary figure [...]]]></description>
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