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The Dark Side of Rain or Shine
Rain or Shine is a Korean show about survivors of a mall collapse that killed 48 people Rain or Shine as a K-drama Rain or Shine is a gem of a South Korean show. I rank it right up there with My...
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The Art in Our Beloved Summer
There are two artists responsible for the main character’s art in the South Korean drama Our Beloved Summer. The first of these is Thibaud Herem. The second is Seungbae Kim. Thibaud Herem View this...
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Casablanca Revisited with Julia Hanna
Recently I had a conversation with Julia Hanna about the classic film noire, Casablanca. Like many of us, Julia had seen Casablanca before, but she watched it again not too long ago, and here are her...
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Review: A Good Woman by Oscar Wilde
The 2004 Movie Poster for A Good Woman This little gem of a movie from 2004 is well worth watching. Starring Helen Hunt, Scarlett Johansson and Tom Wilkinson, the film’s script boasts dialogue by...
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Virtual Reality, Memories of Alhambra and Historical Drama
This week Julia Hanna and I talked about virtual reality in the context of the Korean series, Memories of Alhambra (알함브라 궁전의 추억) . Memories of Alhambra stars Hyun Bin, best known for his role in Crash...
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Reviewing Hometown Cha Cha Cha
Birdseye view of shenanigans on Hometown Cha Cha Cha What if everything that your small town had to offer you was lavished on your upbringing and education? What if from humble beginnings you were...
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Review of “Her Private Life”
Her Private Life is a South Korean drama against the backdrop of the artistic life. Sung Duk-Mi is a curator at the Cheom Museum of art by day, and a fan of kpop idol Cha Si-An by night. She also runs...
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Review of the Rational Life
The Rational Life is a Chinese drama that came out in March of 2021. It follows the life of a thirty-three year old woman, Shen Ruo Xin, who is working in the legal department of an automobile...
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Review of “Misaeng”: An Incomplete Life
I highly recommend the Korean series Misaeng미생 – An Incomplete Life 아직 살아 있지 못한 자. Misaeng is based on a webtoon about a failed Go (Baduk) player who becomes an office worker. Some say it is an office...
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Reviewing the Korean Drama Start-Up 스타트업
“Young entrepreneurs aspiring to launch virtual dreams into reality compete for success and love in the cutthroat world of Korea’s high-tech industry.” That’s how Start-Up is summed up by Netflix. The...
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The Head of the Ape Academy
This is an essay that my late father, Amnon Katz, wrote in 1986. I have translated the text here from the original Hebrew. The Head of the Ape Academy It is generally accepted and known that a...
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A Review of “The King’s Letters”, a Movie About Hangul
By metalslick – Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=63996191 “The King’s Letters” (나랏말싸미) is a historical Korean drama released in July of 2019. Set in Joseon...
View ArticleTriggered! Why You Have Not Seen a Libertarian Musical Yet!
Have you been wondering: Why are all the musicals I have ever seen pandering to statists? Why isn’t there a libertarian musical? One reason might be that the funding for theater productions nowadays...
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Review of Mr. Sunshine, a Korean Historical Drama
Back in my early years, I had a plan to unite all the fandoms I was a part of, including the Trekkies and the Republicans, the libertarians and the filkers, and even the B7 fans, so we could all save...
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The Problem with Vampires
The Problem with Vampires [This article was first published on Hubpages in 2010. It has since been de-indexed.] By Aya Katz A friend of mine is a big fan of the Twilight series by Stephanie Meyer. I...
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Where Have All the Nannies Gone? A Review of Saving Mr. Banks
I saw the Disney movie Saving Mr. Banks yesterday, and what’s more I liked it. I am as hard to please as P.L. Travers when it comes to movie appreciation, so this is in itself a small miracle. Though...
View ArticleHayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises: For Children or Not?
Hayao Miyazaki’s latest film is a biography, based on the true life story of Jiro Horikoshi, (堀越 二郎), the man who designed the Zero fighter used by the Japanese during World War II. This may be...
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Ouran High School Host Club Review
Ouran High School Host Club is an anime series about a girl named Haruhih Fujioka. She gets a scholarship at Ouran Academy. When she looks for a quiet place to study and walks into the music room. She...
View ArticleAngelique’s Lament, a Dark Shadows Filksong
When I was ten years old, my family moved to the United States for good. I was very lonely, and I didn’t have any friends. (For a fictionalized account of what I was going through, read my story The...
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A Movie Review: A Man For All Seasons
I wrote this movie review as a short paper for a history class I took back in college. The movie A Man for All Seasons, is an account of Henry VIII’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon, and the...
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