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The latest Predator movie may not have impressed critics, but the franchise’s Thai cosplayers are on a mission to promote the film.

Alita is just like a typical teenage girl. She loves chocolate, breaks curfew and crushes on a bad boy with floppy hair, a leather jacket and a motorcycle. But Alita isn’t typical in other ways. For one, she can slice apart a single falling tear with her ferocious battle sword.

BANGKOK — It’s been a big year for Thai craft beer. From sun-dried banana-brewed beer and the country’s first legal honey wine, the domestic variety has gone from meh to “more please.”

BANGKOK — Celebrate World Music Day and the summer solstice at an all-day music festival with vibrant beats and even some film courtesy of the French Embassy and Alliance Francaise.

PATTAYA — Soul sensation Lianne La Havas is among the second batch of acts announced for the third edition of Wonderfruit to be held in December.

BANGKOK — Dressed to the nines in ‘90s garb, like Screech or Ned Flanders made flesh, an up-and-coming Canadian music act will play in Bangkok in March.

BANGKOK — High chance French rockers ‘Phoenix’ are coming to Bangkok? Hell, yes!

By ANDREW DALTON in LOS ANGELES — Actor Julian Sands, who starred in several Oscar-nominated films in the late 1980s and '90s including “A...

LOS ANGELES — "Coco," the tear-jerking adventure tale of a Mexican boy who learns the importance of honoring his ancestors after getting stuck in an eye-popping netherworld of the dead, won the Oscar for best animated feature on Sunday.

Long before cinematic universes became expanded, artists such as Kaws, Futura and Nigo were making boucoup baht in the ‘90s began inventing fictional worlds of weird characters that populated – and marketed – with limited-edition toys, shoes, clothing, prints and paintings.