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Movies

The best movie screenings in Bangkok right now

Bangkok’s best film nights rarely happen in a multiplex. They might take over a Shanghai-style mansion on Yaowarat or an old printing house on...

Movies

If you liked Obsession, you'll love these Thai films

Eight Thai films that haunt, consume, destroy and occasionally detach their own heads. Bear wanted Nikki to love him. So he bought a One Wish Willow, made a...

Things to do

Top 5 comedy shows to catch in Bangkok

They don't call Thailand the Land of Smiles for nothing. In Bangkok though, those smiles graduate into real laughs when punchlines are attached to mics. The...

Movies

Thailand’s 10 greatest movie posters of all time

Photograph: Exotic Originals The interview wrapped, but Dave Milligan of Exotic Originals stuck around to drop his personal poster hall of fame on...

Movies

6 top documentaries for Thai food lovers

Every dish carries a world within it: community, people, whole nations served up in flavour and tradition. Food documentaries do something vital here, showing...

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Art

Forget background music. This is Jazz Kissa.

Light casts shadows through the glass, falling across a vinyl record spinning at a steady 33 rpm. The crackle of the needle settling into the grooves awakens...

Travel

Why Bangkok made New York, Paris and London feel old

Photograph: random thoughtsBangkok ‘It made New York, Paris or London, overall, feel very old.’ The anonymous writer behind Random...

Attractions

Bangkok after dark is literally wild

Bangkok changes after dark. Malls dim, street stalls stack their tables and joggers drift out of Benjakitti Park. Then another city begins to stir. After...

Art

Faith in fashion: inside Bangkok’s amulet renaissance

Photograph: Khong BangkokKhong founder Sophie Schuemers-Rogers This Bangkok story begins where fashion meets faith: with someone distracted by a Buddha...

Theater

Exclusive interview: Love of Siam star Pich Witwisit on acting, music, and life after Mew

Somewhere in Bangkok – or halfway around the world – there is a cinema screen where it is still 2007. Mew is 18, about to walk through Siam...

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Travel

Bringing you the magic of Asia: an exclusive interview with Travis Leon Price

You've probably seen the look before you've heard the name. The head tilts back, the eyes go wide, there's a held beat of silence, and then the camera swings...

Restaurants

This is just a coffee shop

There is no sign outside Dots Coffee explaining what it is. No mission statement on the wall, no framed certificates, no small-print acknowledgement that...

Restaurants

At Sala Saneha, the cinema becomes a love affair

We arrive on Decho Road in the afternoon, the sun still strong outside but the air pressure dropping, hinting that rain is on its way. It is unusual to be...

Art

What if you electrified a centuries-old Thai instrument?

There's a moment Taylor O describes that most designers would recognise, even if they might struggle to explain it. It comes before you understand why...