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Beatrix Potter developed a fertile imagination when young. Later in life, she came up with bold and brilliant characters, as told in Miss Potter (2006, UK). Beatrix became the world’s bestselling children’s illustrator and author with her brand of characters, such as Peter Rabbit, characters that are animals with human characteristics. The basis for her…

Conversion happens in life, be that conversion to a religion, a faith, a belief, a political party, and a way of living, among others. Conversions can often bring strong reactions from loved ones. Somebody does not agree with it. It goes against the family’s way. Somebody else in the family may agree with the conversion…

A chameleon goes on one amazing journey—including meeting the Spirit of the West, in Rango (2011, USA). Rango is an Academy Award winning animation about a chameleon, called Rango, looking for water in the sweltering Mojave Desert. There’s hardly any water, though. Before he gets there, he’s swept into passing vehicles on the desert road…

I think of “meddlers” in a negative sense because that’s what I’ve come to think about meddling. I observe that there seems to be different kind of meddlers.  One meddler advises someone on what they should do, which makes the other person feel their life is terrible. Another meddler just hangs around and clings to…

Batman vs Superman has come to theaters and was back on DVD in the middle of the year. What did I make of Batman vs Superman as an idea, before seeing the movie? I saw a man wearing a tee-shirt with ‘Batman’ scrawled over it. It seemed to me that he identified with Batman rather…

Angry Birds is now on DVD. There may be no introduction needed for The Angry Birds Movie (2016, USA). It is based on a computer game.  You may know it. This film adaptation has numbers of flightless birds on an isolated island. The central character is Red, who has ‘anger issues’. Also featured are Terrence,…

10 Cloverfield Lane is the follow-up or companion piece to Cloverfield. It came to theaters earlier in the year and went to DVD. It may or may not be an apocalyptic world in this science fiction thriller. It leaves what is actually happening to the world uncertain for most of the movie. Young adult Michelle…

Earlier this year, desperate survivors ’ thriller The 5th Wave came to theaters and then DVD. In The 5th Wave, getting through a plagued world is a matter of slender hope. The situation is tough. Plagues sweep through America because of an alien force somewhere in the atmosphere. The alien force is causing power outages, earthquakes,…

I’ve got a collection of 1980’s movie songs; some of the movies are well known and others less so. My favorite movie song in the collection is from White Nights (1985). Say You, Say Me White Nights starred a famous ballerina and Gregory Hines, but was under the radar for the most. The White Nights…

The Matrix (1999, USA) offered alternative universe/futuristic science fiction, but bring it down to earth. Movies naturally point to something about our world, even in the most obscure movies. In The Matrix, the ideas about our world may be, as I understand The Matrix, is to free yourself from the authoritarian controls of the world.…
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