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Sometimes I have a need for black and white films and it’s not a precious whim or retrogression—it’s a recognition, a hunger. It has nothing to do with pining for unreality or an escape from […]
Comedian John Richardson has enough anxieties to fill an entire TV series, and the latest episode of Ultimate Worrier turns the spotlight on food, getting its teeth into the subject of the nation’s eating habits. […]
“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 […]
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 […]