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  Cannes report: 'A Touch of Sin' an early favourite

  18 May 2013 : Good year? Bad year? Average year? The question is common, extraneous, and yet on everyone’s lips after three days into the 66th Cannes Film Festival.

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  Brotherly love: the soap that's gripped the nation

  17 May 2013 : Not many new faces can make an impressive debut, but 19-year-old Jirayu "James" Tangsrisuk shines as Khun Chai Puttiphat in the Suparbburuth Chutathep period drama series on Channel 3.

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  Green gets the push, Amie epic rolls on, Oah's unusual invite, Earth cools down

  19 May 2013 : Spirited Away

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  MOVIE REVIEW

  All that glitters is not Gatsby

  17 May 2013 : This is not unexpected. Baz Luhrmann's modus operandi is never subtlety, and his milking of whatever slim, tenuous, ephemeral material cheerfully goes for full bombast. So The Great Gatsby, enjoyable though not so great, magnifies what F Scott Fitzgerald's book only hints, stresses what's only sprinkled, exteriorises what's inside the mind and in the process makes us see more and probably feel less. A fitting opener of the Cannes Film Festival on Wednesday _ and in cinemas across the world this week _ the film revels in excess and almost forgets that all of this is supposed to be a cautionary tale.

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  Microsoft adds Klingon to its Bing translator

  16 May 2013 : From this week, alongside more common languages such as French, English, Arabic and Chinese, Bing Translator users will also be able to convert text to and from Klingon.

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  Cannes report: The joyful jury

  16 May 2013 : CANNES, France - One of the great mysteries is how you judge movies.

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  Cinemas refuse to cut ticket prices

  15 May 2013 : Thailand's leading cinema operators, Major Cineplex and SF Cinema Group, insist they will hold ticket prices at current levels, and claim their popcorn is expensive because it is imported.

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  A glittering showcase of film

  15 May 2013 : Cannes Film Festival opens today with Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, and for the next 12 days the Mediterranean resort town on the French Riviera plays host to the 66th edition of the world's most respected, most influential and most circus-like cine-jamboree. Stars, filmmakers, industry bigwigs and journalists congregate for the annual pilgrimage that celebrates, sanctifies and commercialises cinema to an extent that's both astounding and puzzling.

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  Anti-Trafficking crusader shows her fight

  14 May 2013 : Following a two-year CNN investigation, the two-hour documentary The Fighters chronicles human rights pioneer Cecilia Flores-Oebanda in her journey to protect children from the sex trade and convince the Philippines' biggest star, Manny Pacquiao, to join her as a fighter in the battle against modern-day slavery.

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  Family misfortunes, Munificent Mike, The fame blame game

  12 May 2013 : Round 1 in dad vs lover

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  Oscar-winning Ang Lee receives Taiwan medal

  10 May 2013 : Taiwan on Friday awarded Oscar-winning director Ang Lee a top medal of honour to recognise his achievement in the film industry after he garnered two best director Oscars.

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  Rebels of the neon god

  10 May 2013 : Vithaya Pansringam has the honour of beating Ryan Gosling into a sorry mess. "I feel privileged!" says the 54-year-old kendo expert, ballet school administrator and now first-bill actor of the film Only God Forgives. "Usually, Ryan beats people into a pulp _ did you see Drive? Well, this time he got it, and I got away!"

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