August 8, 2011
Vietnamese filmmakers should quit blaming the censors and learn to make scary movies without relying only on blood and guts Dustin Nguyen (L) and Tam Tit, two of the stars of Giua hai the gioi (Between two worlds) The teenage girls I spoke with after seeing Vu Thai Hoa’s Giua hai the gioi (Between [...]
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July 15, 2011
A scene in Giua hai the gioi (Between two worlds), this year’s first local horror movie is set for release on July 22 Murky censorship laws have long vexed horror film makers in Vietnam. In recent years, few have dared to risk releasing them. Those who complained their films were rendered unrecognizable by heavy [...]
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January 31, 2010
Director Nguyen Do Khoa (L), aka eNKee Nguyen, and a Vietnamese crew member set up a shot on the set of The 4th The unexpected victory of Vietnamese college students at a Hollywood film festival has inspired a sequel and hopes for more recognition. Nguyen Do Khoa, director of The 4th, which grabbed first prize [...]
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September 1, 2009
The latest installment of Warner Brothers’ “The Final Destination” has garnered 28.3 million U.S. dollars, thrashing Weinstein Co’s “Inglourious Basterds” for the first place of North American box office over the weekend. A poster of “The Final Destination.”(Photo: Xinhuanet.com)Thanks to its vigorous pre-debut promotion and movie-goers’ innate desire to associate themselves with horror scenes, R-rated [...]
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March 29, 2009
Emily Browning and Arielle Kebbel play Anne and Alex, respectively, in âThe Uninvitedâ âThe Uninvited,â the latest Asian horror remake, is decent, but loses something in translation. Anna is having some very nasty dreams, and understandably so. She is still recovering from the trauma of the tragic death of her sick mother, who died when [...]
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December 9, 2008
Phan Cao Tri and his wife Phan Thi Yen Police in Ho Chi Minh City Monday arrested three people at a massage parlor in Thu Duc District for illegally detaining and extorting money from their female employees. The three arrestees were owner Phan Cao Tri and his wife Phan Thi Yen, and Tri’s brother-in-law Phan [...]
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December 8, 2008
Women in a Ho Chi Minh City massage parlor raided by police on Saturday said they were victims of a tyrannical boss who treated them like slaves. More than 130 women, who worked for the Tan Hoang Phat massage parlor, located at Street No. 4, Thu Duc District, told the police they had been detained, [...]
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October 6, 2008
An exhibition in Hanoi featuring works by Spanish master Francisco Goya is designed to highlight the devastating effects of war and violence. The “Art in Times of War” display, which opened last Friday, shows 46 original aquatint prints from Goya’s “The Disasters of Wars” collection which depicts the horrors that occurred as Spain tried to [...]
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