Catching the Miyazaki Classics (Part 8) – My Neighbor Totoro

Catching the Miyazaki Classics (Part 8) – My Neighbor Totoro

Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, perhaps best known for his work with Studio Ghibli, has gained popularity around the world for his creative and imaginative animated feature films. While they were originally released in Japanese, all of them have been dubbed into...
Catching the Miyazaki Classics (Part 7) – Ponyo

Catching the Miyazaki Classics (Part 7) – Ponyo

Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, perhaps best known for his work with Studio Ghibli, has gained popularity around the world for his creative and imaginative animated feature films. While they were originally released in Japanese, all of them have been dubbed into...
Show Time: What Makes a Romcom Good?

Show Time: What Makes a Romcom Good?

I’m a little ashamed to admit that I’ve been watching a lot of romcoms recently. I say ‘ashamed’ mostly because the genre as a whole has a reputation of dumbing-down human relations into “desperate woman and loser man stumble into...