I love being pleasantly surprised. I’ve made no secret about my concerns over the future of creativity and storytelling. Rehashing old...

I was rather preoccupied in 2020, delving into the realms of Japanese cinema and best of all discovering Japan’s most subversive and...

Here we go again. It's been a while, I must admit. [Insert existential sentence with as many commas as I feel is humanly necessary to get...

****1/2 Often I talk about humanism, a desire for the genuine, for sincerity in much of what I consume. When I escape from the world, it...

With the state of all things, we are seeing the legitimate questioning of the relevance of cinema, it's current lack-ness and it's...

****1/2 I am possibly the most complacently casual Manga reader, dipping in and out wherever I go. You see, I'm more of a book girl....

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It's funny that we all have our little obsessions. Funnier still is how they come and go. For some it's romance novels, others it's the...

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