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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

There’s a ghost in the machine in writer/director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s humorous and haunting gem of a feature debut “A Useful Ghost.” However, this is no mere twisty supernatural horror to be ...

The film from writer-director Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke – which won the Grand Prix, aka the top prize of Critics' Week at the fest – follows titular useful ghost Nat (Davika Hoorne), who's recently ...

Absurd inanimate object cinema is having a moment. Forget the simplistic joke of killer-tire movie Rubber; the forthcoming indie comedy By Design, the Sundance film from last year where Juliette Lewis ...