Category: Review
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Melo Movie: A Ponderous Exploration Of Grief And Love
This ten episode #kdrama #MeloMovie on @Netflix written by Lee Na-eun, directed by Oh Chung-hwan and starring Choi Woo-shik, Park Bo-young, Lee Jun-young, Jeon So-nee, and Kim Jae Uck is pure cinema. Over ten hours, we are acquainted with and eventually get to know intimately all the characters. What is love?What is grief?What is passion?What…
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Hidden Love – Slow, Sweet and, Sure
In the midst of a kdrama slump, aimless browsing of Netflix threw up this cdrama called Hidden Love that was on air meaning I couldn’t binge it even if I wanted to. I started this show with no expectations and it remains now one of my favorite chinese dramas ever. The story starts when the…
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The Moon Is Beautiful – Romance Is A Bonus Book Review
The moon is beautiful, isn’t it ? Instead of “I love you”, Natsume Soseki said “The moon is beautiful”. When the author, Natsume Soseki, was a teacher, he told his student translated “I love you” into Japanese, he just translated it word-for-word, “I love you”. Since Japanese people don’t say that often, he told the…
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Twenty Five, Twenty One – Trip Down Nostalgia Lane
The show starts with vivid color and a certain sterility as a teenager waits to perform ballet during the COVID years. The mother, our protagonist waits in the car as restrictions prevent anyone from being in the audience. The girl walks off, throwing away her place in the competition and runs away from home to…
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Kantara – A Movie That Stays With You
Early in October, my friend asked me to watch this movie. I said it was impossible that a Kannada movie would screen in theaters near me. I did look it up and it was running at a theater a few miles away. Then, a chance conversation with a neighbor had me at the theater this…
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Daughters Of Destiny – Some Thoughts
This docu-series has been on my watchlist for over a year now. I finally caught up on it over the weekend. The four plus hour long series traces five girls as they grow up under the spotlight. The youngest child is four and the older ones in high school. They are chosen to go to…
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Try Harder! Film Analysis
This weekend, I sat in a theater for the first time in forever, my mask fogging up my glasses with my twin middle schoolers watching a documentary. Try Harder! follows five high schoolers as they navigate the junior and senior year of high school. This is not just any high school but one that is…
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Moxie: Too Reel For Real
Sunday evening, I watched Moxie while my kids watched The Little Mermaid for the gazillionth time. The movie started well, was predictable, had good acting and by the time it was done, I was disturbed. The premise of the story is great, so why doesn’t the movie deliver? This question has been in my head…
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Film Review: the half of it
About twenty-three years ago, I created my first personal email account. It was an account that I shared with my best friend. It was also an account that saw a lot of emails go back and forth with “pen pals”, people we did not know. There were no smartphones, no way to scan and send…
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Giftorations: Decor That Doubles As Gifts
I rarely do advertorials/sponsored posts on the blog but being that this is family and I feel comfortable writing about it because of having experienced the product personally. A few months ago, a cousin of mine Swetha reached out to talk about SEO and website traffic. Turns out she and a friend, both moms to…