"I never want to scare people. I just want to be with you." Fandor has debuted the official US trailer for one of the year's best indie discoveries from around the world - a Thai film called A Useful ...

A ghost-possessed vacuum cleaner might sound like standard horror fare, but in the hands of Thai director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, it transforms into a sly commentary on pollution, power dynamics, ...

Absurd inanimate object cinema is having a moment. Forget the simplistic joke of killer-tire movie Rubber; the forthcoming indie comedy By Design, the Sundance film from last year where Juliette Lewis ...

Film director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, who won a top prize at the Cannes Festival on Wednesday, recruited a major influencer for his off-the-wall gay comedy with a political punch. In "A Useful ...

The basic Thai movie diet is 70% ghost/horror story (indistinguishable), 15% teen romance and 15% whoopee-cushion slapstick comedy. I know the movies mostly from previews, which in all genres make my ...

Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s zany romantic drama A Useful Ghost has won the top prize at Cannes Critics’ Week. The feature, which is the first Thai film to play in the parallel section for a number of ...

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There were celebrations after Thailand legalised same-sex marriage in January - Copyright AFP/File Ting Shen, ALFREDO ZUNIGA There were celebrations after Thailand ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Couched in a similarly fantastical and appliance-based frame/love story between a man with a new vacuum (Wisarut Homhuan) and the ...