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Alive in Moana
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pveugelaers
Polynesian myth comes to life in the Walt Disney computer animation Moana (2016) with the daughter of the village chief in the thick of it. Moana (Auli’i Cravalho) is the village chief’s daughter who has been told, along with the other villagers, that they have never been explorers. This message, however false, keeps the islanders…
Blame in Mission Impossible
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pveugelaers
Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol (2011) layers in a sobering sense of how the IMF spy agency is blamed for an explosion at the Kremlin. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) and the IMF analyst are talking about the explosion in a rail-yard. Did this really happen, they ask? They can’t believe they are to blame. IMF didn’t…
Passing through in Out of Africa
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pveugelaers
British adventurer and idealist Denys Finch Hatton says, in Out of Africa (1985), we’re all passing through. As people pass through life, they have various experiences. In Out of Africa life is a mixed blessing for business woman and storyteller Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep). Though this Danish woman runs a successful coffee plantation in Kenya,…
Movie review: Rogue One
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pveugelaers
Star Wars is back, or has been back. Rogue One (2016) now on DVD is a Star Wars story. It is famous already as the story-line that featured in the opening scroll of A New Hope in 1977. A small band of Rebels steal the secret plans to the Empire’s “sinister weapon” the Death Star.…
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