Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Grief and ghosts aren’t new territory for any national cinema — and this is perhaps particularly true of Thailand. But, “A Useful ...

Every once in a while at a film festival, I stumble upon a film so strange and quirky that I can’t help being won over by its audaciousness and that perfectly describes writer/director Ratchapoom ...

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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 ...

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, ...

Grief and ghosts aren’t new territory for any national cinema — and this is perhaps particularly true of Thailand. But, “A Useful Ghost” is an entertaining and moving – if also somewhat sprawling – ...