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I awoke to a nondescript July morn. As it was ‘nondescript’, I won’t try to describe it… other than to say that after a night of continual rain, it was dull, gloomy and dreich (an old Scottish word meaning… well… dull and gloomy.) There, that’s enough description!
A bunch of dinosaurs run amok through an American suburb during the 1980s. It sounds like a crazy plot for a film, right? Well, that was my first thought when I saw a trailer for The End Of Oak Street. But now I have seen the film I have realised something – there have been crazier plots over the years I mean even something as entrenched in pop culture as Star Wars would have seemed pretty crazy…
One of the things that has always stuck with me from my screenwriting classes at film school was our lecturer telling us: “The two best pages of your screenplay needs to be the first page and the last page.” Well if brand new horror comedy Ice Cream Man is anything to go by that is advice that obviously neither Noah Belson (Cabin Fever) or Eli Roth (Hostel) have ever heard because this is a film…
Phuket is set to host a festival promoting awarness of the welfare and preservation of dugongs this coming week as part of a three-location series.
One of the strongest performing franchises of the last decade has been Spider-Man. While some of the comic book movies being released have taken a hit at the box office over recent years that has not been the case for either the Tom Holland lead Spider-Man series nor the animated Spiderverse films. That was never more evident than with the release of Spider-Man: No Way Home – the return of two…
Tucked into the hills above Kamala Beach on Phuket’s west coast is a small independent neighbourhood café that over the past three years has evolved to offer a very different experience from the island’s busier tourist districts.
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It was an occasion of great celebration recently as the Phuket chapter of the Association of Filipinos in Thailand (AFT) joined colleagues in Bangkok to mark the auspicious date of the 128th Philippine Independence Day.
Nearly thirty years ago, I stumbled into Antigua, Guatemala expecting a pleasant colonial town. Instead, I found something closer to magic: cobbled streets, pastel facades, an expansive plaza shaded by trees and a dramatic skyline punctuated by the brooding cones of three volcanoes. Back then, Antigua felt like a discovery. Today, Antigua remains insanely beautiful. But the secret is out.
By now you have probably heard about Obsession – the little indie film that has smashed box office records right around the world. In fact there probably hasn’t been this much buzz around a low budget indie film since the days of the cinema-changing Blair Witch Project and Kevin Smith’s career starting Clerks.