BY JOHN CARTER JR “He hates me? hates me, hates me, hates me…I’ll be left alone again, I’ll be left alone again.” These are the…
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Retro Review: Infinity Train – A train to nowhere
BY JOHN CARTER JR What if you could go somewhere different right now, and escape the life you are currently living to travel to far-off…
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The Babadook: The Fear of Living
BY JOHN CARTER JR What would it be like to lose a lifelong partner, someone who you have spent your entire life with? Someone who…
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Retro Review: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze
BY JOHN CARTER JR In an era where turtle mania seems to be having a resurgence with the recent Netflix Rise of the Teenage Mutant…
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Retro Review: Mrs. Doubtfire – Gaslight, Gatekeep, Girlboss
BY JOHN CARTER JR Imagine you are recently divorced and you are no longer able to see your children regularly. Now imagine your ex puts…
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Retro Review: I Told Sunset About You
The Infectious Guilt of Being Yourself BY JOHN CARTER JR In my most recent entries we have discussed love, self acceptance, and what it means…
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Retro Review: Beaches (1988) examines the nature of soulmates
BY JOHN CARTER JR What does it mean to truly love someone exactly as they are, to find a profound connection with another human being…
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Defy or Assimilate: The Identity Struggle
BY JOHN CARTER JR This Review is based to the Viki Rakuten English sub of Coffee Prince What can there be said about the early…
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A Rabbit Relieves Repression
BY JOHN CARTER JR Imagine for a moment you picked up a two-liter of Pepsi and brought it to your house, you left for a…
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Love, Expiration Date: Never
BY JOHN CARTER JR Made in response to his frustrations while working on Ashes of Time and released in 1996, Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express…
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