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New Studio Ghibli Movie Opens: From Up On Poppy Hill
Fans of Hayao Miyazaki rejoice today (July 16, 2011) as a new studio Ghibli movie is released. コクリコ坂から The English title of this movie is “From Up On Poppy Hill.” Based on a famous manga by the same...
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Studio Ghibli released its new film From Up on Poppy Hill (コクリコ坂から ) this July. Click here to view the embedded video. It’s been a while since From Up On Poppy Hill premiered in Japan, and the reviews...
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Daria Review
Daria is a cartoon show about a girl who goes to high school and loves to be sarcastic but doesn’t show a lot of emotions. This show is very addicting and I recommend to buy it and watch it. Later in...
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Watch Origin: Spirits of the Past online
The DVD cover image for US distribution, as posted on Wikipedia Do you enjoy anime? Are some of your favorite movies Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind or Princess Mononoke? Then you will enjoy...
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Watch Ayesha Takia in the movie MOD free on YouTube
I don’t usually watch Bollywood movies, and I do not speak Hindi or Tamil, and I don’t normally enjoy watching movies where I don’t understand what people are saying. However you can watch Ayesha Takia...
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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...
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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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 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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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...
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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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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...
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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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...
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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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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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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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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 “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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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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