One Thor to rule them all, one Thor to bind them

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 07, 2013
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Tough luck if you don't like comic-book movies. It's slim pickings this week as there's just new release in cinemas - "Thor: The Dark World".

Yet another entry in Disney’s Marvel Cinematic Universe, it takes place in the aftermath of 2011’s “Thor” and last year’s “The Avengers”.
Just like all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, you’ll need to prepare yourself to keep your seat when the end credits roll, because there will be two post-credits scenes. So don’t get up and rush out at the end.
 
 
Also showing
_ The Friese-Greene Club – Screenings are fully booked for “Censor Must Die”, an instructive documentary on film censorship and Thailand’s new movie-ratings bureaucracy. Running through Saturday, it’s directed by Ing K, the outspoken artist and filmmaker, who made the film as a means of documenting the banning of her political tinged “Macbeth” adaptation, “Shakespeare Must Die”. On Sunday, the FGC will screen another early Hitchcock film, with 1935’s “The 39 Steps”. And next Wednesday, it’s a classic from Rob Reiner, 1986’s childhood drama “Stand By Me”. For more details, see FCG.in.th.
 
_ Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand – Screening at 8pm on Monday, “Days of Santiago” is the story of a soldier who returns home to Lima but finds himself struggling to fit back in to society. The debut feature by Josue Mendez, it won of dozens of awards and was Peru’s submission to the Academy Awards in 2006. Admission is Bt150 for non-members plus Bt100 for anyone want to enjoy the wine and snacks laid on by the Runa Run Peruvian-Thai Association and the Embassy of Peru. Next Thursday, the FCCT will screen the documentary, “The Buddha’s Forgotten Nuns”, which examines the issues of sexism in Buddhism’s monastic orders. For details, visit www.fccthai.com.
 
Take note
Movies won’t resume until next month at the Alliance Francaise Bangkok, which is still fitting out its auditorium at the new premises on the former grounds of the Suan Lum Night Bazaar on the corner of Rama IV and Wireless Roads. For details, check AFThailande.org.