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Lana Willocks reviews Her Fearful Symettry by Audrey Niffeneger.

Imagine a life completely outside the realm of the modern consumer society -no shops, no advertisements, no 7-Elevens.

In the first of a new series of Book reviews, Lana Willocks delves into the murky world of South East Asian Erotica.

The word ‘farang’ gets banded around quite freely in Phuket and regardless of which particular interpretation you wish to accept, it is always used to describe foreigners and non-Thai people.

The fab four - Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda - decide to take the sex out of the city and into the desert, after watching their pals Stanford and Anthony get hitched by Liza Minelli.

Thai movie makers are obviously intrigued by the hilarity of their own industry, as Pohtak is the second film release in a month to parody the pitfalls of movie-making in the Kingdom.

Retired assassin, Ashton Kutcher, goes on the run with his new wife, Katherine Heigl, when he learns that there’s a contract out on him and almost everybody in his sleepy ‘burb is a hitman/woman/dog out to collect on the contract.

If director Sukit Narinr’s Sin Sisters 2 is anywhere near as erotic as the trailer seems to indicate, then it deserved a triple X rating. Still, trailers regularly obfuscate a movie’s true nature, so you’ll have to take your chances.

Sam Yan tells three very different stories that all take place in the Bangkok district of the title. The first follows the hilarious attempts of a bus driver to get rid of a dead body he has found on his bus. The second is about a pair of robbers on the run from a hitman and the third goes inside the world of Thai cinema as a hard put-upon director tries desperately to finish a movie with a famous, but feckless, actor.

Shrek (Mike Myers) has to go through the pains of re-acquainting himself with Donkey (Eddie Murphy), Puss (Antonio Banderas) and Fiona (Cameron Diaz) after Rumpelstiltskin tricks him into a dark alternative history