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The directors of “My Girl“—Vijjapat Kojiw and his team—have crafted a film that nostalgically reflects youth and influences how Thai cinema portrays the coming-of-age genre. The film’s success has also inspired a generation of filmmakers to explore themes of memory, nostalgia, and youthful innocence with a similarly authentic and emotional lens, underscoring the film’s lasting impact on Thai cinema. My Girl’s influence can be seen in the way subsequent Thai films have approached similar themes, often drawing inspiration from its authentic and emotional storytelling.

“My Girl” (Fan Chan) opens with the protagonist, Jeab, musing on the nature of memory. He talks about how certain moments lie dormant in the mind, only to resurface with a tangible reminder—like the old cassette tapes of his childhood. For me, this film was that tangible reminder, triggering a flood of my memories.

My Girl is screening at Cinemasia...

Producers Gmm Tai Hub have been keeping quiet about their upcoming horror anthology Phobia 2 thus far but with the September release coming just around the corner a flood of posters and plot synopses for the horror collection - expanded out to five stories for this edition - has arrived.

Yes, both Parkpoom Wongpoom and Banjong Pisanthanakun - who jointly directed both Shutter and Alone before making their solo debuts in the original Phobia - return for this edition as does Body #19 director Paween Purikijpanya, which is good news all around, but the most exciting bit to me is the reunion of Dorm director Songyos Sugmakanan with star Charlie Trairat, who is looking to make the successful transition out of being a child actor and seems to be doing so remarkably well.  That’s the Trairat poster included to the left here.  The fifth slot here goes to long time producer...