Reviews
Five Lessons for Humanity: Review of Spirited Away (2001)
Synopsis Spirited Away (2001) is a coming-of-age story that centers on the ten-year-old Chihiro. After her parents were turned into pigs...
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Review of The Girl of Ink and Stars
Plot The Girl of Ink and Stars is a cross between fantasy and mythology, a modern story that reads like...
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The Electricity of Love: Review of the Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021)
Synopsis The Electrical Life of Louis Wain (2021) follows the life, the relationship, and the creative rise, fall, and ‘re-rise’ of...
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When Pressure Doesn’t Make Diamonds: Review of Encanto (2021)
Synopsis Encanto (2021) centers on the Madrigals, a family of gifted individuals. Abuela Alma is the matriarch of the family...
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Things Are Never Black or White: Review of I Passed for White (1960)
Synopsis Based on a memoir of the same name, I Passed for White (1960) revolves around Bernice Lee (Sonya Wilde)....
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Akajiuwa: A Tale of Three Artists
Akajiuwa is a surrealistic work that explores the interplay of the divine and the human in the workings of the world....
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When the Lights Dim: Review of Gaslight (1944)
Gaslight (1944) begins with Paula (Ingrid Bergman) moving to Italy to study music under Signore Guardi following the murder of...
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Into the Psychology of Dolarhyde from Thomas Harris’s Red Dragon
The Red Dragon by Thomas Harris is the first book in the Hannibal trilogy. It follows the investigations into the...
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The Pain of Wasted Talent: Review of A Bronx Tale (1993)
Synopsis of A Bronx Tale (1993) I like to think of A Bronx Tale (1993) as a mafia movie with a soul;...
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Untangling the Roots of Texturism: Review of Bad Hair (2020)
Synopsis of Bad Hair (2020) Bad Hair (2020) is a skittish cross between satire, comedy, and horror. The movie opens...
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