Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. If Leonardo DiCaprio is the Wolf of Wall Street, Sitthiphon (Ki) Disamoe is the lamb of Oliveri Crescent. One of Hollywood's biggest ...

A Laotian boy born under a curse struggles to turn his luck around in the affecting drama “The Rocket.” The Australian-made film is set among poor villagers of Laos displaced by a dam-building project ...

Kim Mordaunt's Berlinale-awarded feature makes its North American debut at Tribeca. By THR Staff The Rocket Tribeca Film Still - H 2013 A twin whose sibling was stillborn, ten year-old Ahlo ...

Loungnam Kaosainam as Kia and Sitthiphon Disamoe as Ahlo in THE ROCKET, a film by Kim Mordaunt. (Kino Lorber Films) A highly entertaining amalgam of feel-good fable and social-problem exposé, "The ...

Drama. Written and directed by Kim Mordaunt. With Sitthiphon Disamoe, Loungnam Kaosainam, Thep Phongam. In Laotian with English subtitles. (Not rated. 96 minutes.) "The Rocket," a touching, fable-like ...

MOVIE REVIEW: A tough-skinned, yet tender-hearted coming-of-age drama, The Rocket effortlessly launches itself in viewers' affections, and remains there throughout. Filmed in the war-ravaged nation of ...

“The Rocket” took two of the top competition throphies at the Tribeca Film Festival, with Kim Mourdaunt’s family drama scoring wins for best narrative feature and best actor for Sitthiphon Disamoe.

Little Ahlo (Sitthiphon Disamoe) is born a twin in Laos, a country where some believe that twins are demons. After his family is relocated because of the building of a new dam that is slated to flood ...

Sitthiphon Disamoe as Ahlo, left, Thep Phongam as Purple, and Loungnam Kaosainam as Kia in a scene from The Rocket (AP) From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on ...

The film opens on the birth of Ahlo (street kid Sitthiphon Disamoe), the only surviving member of a pair of twins. But twins, according to Laotian superstition, are thought to be highly problematic, ...