Juno
Published on May 17, 2008
Winner of this year's Oscar for best original screenplay, this is the story of a quirky teenage girl (Ellen Page) who gets pregnant by her indecisive boyfriend (Michael Cera) and ponders giving the baby up for adoption. At Scala, House, Paragon, SFW CentralWorld.
21Under tutelage from their professor (Kevin Spacey), six college students come up with a system to beat the Las Vegas casinos at blackjack. It works, until one of the maths geniuses (Jim Sturgess) gets cocky and is caught by a casino security chief (Laurence Fishburne). Loosely based on a true story.
Memory Psychiatrist Krit (Ananda Everingham) is in over his head as he takes care of a troubled little girl while at the same time finds himself falling dangerously in love with the girl's overprotective mother, Ing-orn (Mai Charoenpura). With English subtitles at some cinemas.
Wonderful Town Young architect Ton (Supphasit Kansen) arrives in a sleepy isolated coastal village to supervise the construction of a beach resort. Damage from the 2004 tsunami still lingers, and it's in this ominous atmosphere that Ton begins a tentative romance with a young woman, Na (Anchalee Saisoontorm), the pretty, sensitive proprietor of the hotel. Directed by Aditya Assarat, it's part of the Directors' Screen series. At 7pm daily until June 11 at SFW CentralWorld; with English subtitles.
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