Grab a pint and a green Cornetto
With his apocalyptic comedy "The World's End", writer-director Edgar Wright completes his "Three Cornettos" trilogy, a loosely connected string of British comedies he began with zombies in "Shaun of the Dead" (red Cornetto ice cream cones) and then
The darkest of the three, “The World’s End” stars Wright’s co-writer Simon Pegg as a hopeless goofball slacker. He makes a last-ditch attempt to connect with his four more-successful and mature schoolmates and complete an epic pub crawl they first attempted as teenagers in their hometown 20 years before. They arrive to find things have really changed and eventually discover that alien robots have taken over. Watch for a green Cornetto wrapper to flit by.
Pegg’s pal Nick Frost is back for more fun, as are Martin Freeman and Paddy Considine. Eddie Marsan joins the gang this time, along with Rosamund Pike and Pierce Brosnan.
It’s at Esplanade Ratchada, Paragon and SFW CentralWorld.
Also opening
l “Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy” – It’s the world’s first Twitter movie. Read more about it at left.
l “Don Jon” – Joseph Gordon-Levitt is a guy addicted to Internet porn, even though his girlfriend is Scarlett Johansson. But she’s even worse – she’s hooked on sappy romance films. It’s at Apex and SF.
l “Carrie” – Kimberly Peirce (“Boys Don’t Cry”, Stop-Loss”) directs this fresh adaptation of Stephen King’s 1974 novel. Taking over the Sissy Spacek role from Brian DePalma’s 1976 horror classic is none other than Hit Girl herself, Chloe Grace Moretz. Don’t make her angry.
l “Evidence” – Stephen Moyer and Radha Mitchell are detectives trying to piece together a mass murder from “found footage”. Olatunde Osunsanmi (“The Fourth Kind” and screenwriter on “Smokin’ Aces 2”) directs. It’s at Major Cineplex.
l “Oh! My Ghost Khun Phee Chuay” – Little cherub Sudarat “Tukky” Butrprom looks in the mirror and what does she see? The ghostly image of tall and lithe actress-dancer Cris Horwang. Puttipong Promsakha Na Sakon Nakhon (“First Love”, “30+ Singles on Sale”) directs.
l “Ruam Phol Khon Luk Thung Ngern Laan” – Director Pornchai “Gun” Hongrattanaporn brings his colourful and stylish touch to the already colourful and stylish world of luk thung music.
l “Bullett Raja” – The title says it all. Saif Ali Khan and Sonakshi Sinha star in this Bollywood gangster action comedy. It’s at Major Cineplex Sukhumvit and Rama III.
Also showing
l The Friese-Greene Club – The weird and wonderful “City of Lost Children” concludes the club’s monthlong tribute to director Jean-Pierre Jeunet tonight. Tomorrow, it’s ghostly love from Hong Kong in 1988’s opium-tinged “Rouge”, directed by Stanley Kwan and starring Leslie Cheung and Anita Mui. December kicks off with “Christmas classics” on Sundays beginning with 1947’s “The Bishop’s Wife” starring Cary Grant as a mischievous angel. Bookings are a must. For details, see FGC.in.th.
