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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Review: What we should do while we are here

BY JOHN CARTER JR Based on the 2018 Manga series of the same name, Jujutsu Kaisen is an anime series released in October 2020. The…

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Retro Review: That 70s Show

BY JOHN CARTER JR Initially released in August 1998 on Fox and set in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin in the 1970s, That‘70s…

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