Tag: movies
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Guest Post: As The World Falls Down – A Labyrinth Retrospective
This week’s post is special, because it’s a guest post from fellow blogger simpleek! Her blog focuses on a video games, manga, anime, and fashion. I can’t remember exactly how I discovered her site last summer, but I imagine it was one of her lovely Mass Effect-related posts that initially drew me in… Whatever the case,…
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“Cloud Atlas” = Spiritual Science Fiction?
It may be a little late to talk about the film Cloud Atlas — and it’s definitely daunting — but it’s something I’ve been wanting to discuss since I saw the film last fall. After seeing the trailer for Cloud Atlas in theaters and noticing David Mitchell’s book on the Sword and Laser’s book club for October, I was…
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The Magic of Storytelling in “Life of Pi”
Ang Lee’s Life of Pi was a pleasant surprise for me. I had started to read Yann Martel’s book years ago but wasn’t entranced by it, so I never got around to finishing it. Now that I’ve seen the movie, I’m curious to go back and read the novel with a fresh perspective. The ambiguity in the…
