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Cinema in Bangkok

Don't think that because a movie is advertised in the paper as being on at a cinema at certain times that it is so. Sometimes, not only is it not on at the advertised times, it is not on at all!TIT.Went to a movie the other day, and it was FREEZING in the... ...full story at Lonely Planet

from Lonely Planet on Sun, Nov 25 2007

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