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Wise Kwai's Bangkok Cinema Scene
What's playing in Bangkok cinemas?
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Thursday , July 31 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening July 31-August 6, 2008
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 344 , 19:48:00   | Category : cinema scene  
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Be Kind RewindFast losing customers to big-chain competition and DVDs, a faltering video-rental store is further imperiled when the wild antics of a neighborhood weirdo (Jack Black, who else?) erase the images from the store's entire stock.In order to keep the few loyal customers they have, the store's clerk (Mos Def) decides to remake all the movies, using just an obsolete video camera and homemade ....


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Thursday , July 24 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening July 23-30, 2008
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 432 , 20:47:00   | Category : cinema scene  
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Journey to the Center of the EarthThe first of back-to-back Brendan Fraser movies, Journey to the Center of the Earth is loosely adapted from the Jules Verne novel. Fraser portrays a volcanologist who is left in care of his nephew (Josh Hutcherson), the son of his missing brother. The two then find clues to the missing brother's whereabouts and head off to Iceland where they meet a mountaineer (Anita....


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Wednesday , July 16 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening July 17-23, 2008
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 393 , 16:04:52   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film  
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Woh Mah Ba Maha SanookFunnyman Mum Jokmok puts on his Bang Fai Productions producer's hat for the latest Thai comedy, Woh Mah Ba Maha Sanook, which is about a clever canine getting the best of a bunch of scared villagers. With the usual crew of Thai comedians present, it's another Thai horror comedy. The director is Bunjong Sinthanamongkolkul, who served as an assistant on Mum's 2005 directorial effo....


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Wednesday , July 9 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene: Movies opening July 10-16, 2008
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 329 , 22:35:20   | Category : cinema scene  
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Red CliffDirector John Woo returns to Chinese cinema in a big way after a long sojourn in Hollywood with Red Cliff, the first of his two-part epic based on “The Three Kingdoms”. With a budget of $80 million, it is the most expensive Asian film yet. The movie has taken years to make and has been beset by many problems, not the least of which is that a stuntman was killed on the second-unit set last mo....


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Tuesday , July 1 , 2008
Bangkok Cinema Scene: July 2-9, 2008
Posted by wisekwai , Reader : 227 , 18:24:19   | Category : cinema scene   Thai film  
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Sad news ahead of this week's opening of Love of Siam actor Mario Maurer's new movie Friendship: His father has died.Roland Maurer, a 70-year-old German exporter, had been battling diabetes for some time. He died on Friday morning in a hospital in Nakhon Nayok Province. He is survived by Mario, 19, Mario's older brother Marco, 24, and Chinese-Thai wife Warunya.Bangkok of the Mind and Lyn’s Lakorn Blo....


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