Take a look at these popular Thai dramas that you can watch on YouTube. Each series has its unique style, storyline, and cast that makes it worth watching.
You aren t supposed to believe in these things. Netflix has debuted a new trailer for a ghost horror film from Thailand called
Ghost Lab, streaming in the US and Thailand starting this May. After witnessing a haunting, two young doctors become dangerously obsessed with obtaining scientific proof that ghosts exist. Gla and Wee, played by
Paris Intarakomalyasut and
Thanapob Leeratanakajorn, two medical doctor buddies see a ‘ghost’ with their own eyes when an afterlife experiment goes wrong. The encounter spawns an insatiable desire to find a scientific explanation for ghostly spirits, and to find proof of the afterlife. Their fixation and reckless pursuit of unattainable knowledge will take them down a rabbit hole that might cost them their friendship, and their loved ones. Also starring
Chronicle Staff January 29, 2021Updated: February 6, 2021, 12:37 pm
“CODA” plays on opening night of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival at Fort Mason Flix in San Francisco. Photo: Scott Strazzante, The Chronicle
The Sundance Film Festival, one of the most prestigious in the world, has come to a close, having showcased more than 70 feature films online and bringing world premieres to drive-ins across the country, including the pop-up Fort Mason Flix in San Francisco.
But the festival wasn’t just about watching the movies. The festival that ran Jan. 28 through Wednesday, Feb. 3, featured virtual Q&A sessions with stars and filmmakers for fun, often surprising, behind-the-scenes looks at some of the biggest films of the year. There were also some bidding wars from major distributors, who spent millions to acquire some of festival’s top films.
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – One for the Road
Co-written and directed by Baz Poonpiriya.
Starring Tor Thanapob, Ice Natara, Violette Wautier, Aokbab Chutimon, Ploi Horwang, and Noon Siraphun.
SYNOPSIS:
Boss, a high-end club owner living in New York, receives a call from his friend in Thailand, Aood, revealing he is in the last stages of terminal cancer.
Director Baz Poonpiriya (
Countdown, Bad Genius) returns with a sumptuous melodrama which plumbs the depths of producer Wong Kar-wai’s thematic cachet for a richly rewarding, heart-swelling meditation on life, death, love, and atonement.
Boss (Thanapob Leeratanakajorn) is a handsome, well-minted bartender running his own joint in New York City, where he entertains customers with his cocktail-making skills and frequently spends the night with the female clientele. But Boss’ seemingly idyllic existence hits a brick wall when his estranged pal, Aood (Ice Natara), calls from Bangkok with terrible news; he’s dying of
Thai director
Nattawut Poonpiriya‘s impossibly stylish high school heist thriller
Bad Genius was one of the best hidden gems to emerge from the Southeast Asian region over the past few years, and seemed to signal a bright new filmmaker in the arena who could rival Edgar Wright in breakneck editing and crazy camera acrobatics. That thought occurred to me the first few minutes into Poonpiriya’s latest equally stylish film,
One for the Road, but gradually faded as the road trip dramedy took a few too many detours and soapy left turns.
A wistful road trip movie that follows a pair of old, estranged friends who reconnect after many years,