May 2018 – The Flaneur

The Looming Tower: Star-studded TV drama about the failure to apprehend 9/11

“Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower.” This is a quote from the Koran, which Osama bin Laden repeated three times in a speech videotaped shortly before Mohamed Atta and […]

Mary and the Witch’s Flower: Review

Studio Ponoc, Japan, 2017, Japanese with subtitles Director: Hiromasa Yonebayashi Summary: A pleasant children’s movie that may fail to satisfy AFOGs (adult fans of Ghibli). A young witch with red hair rescues some magic seeds […]