In My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010, France), Germain is warm hearted, but he is dismissed by his pub friends in almost every sentence they speak. He is thought of as the “village idiot”. But he is warm hearted. His mother criticized the boy’s intelligence and ability to fulfill everyday tasks. Germain, as an older man,…

The seventh Rocky film has been out on DVD since March and it takes the franchise in a new direction. Sylvester Stallone is back as Rocky Balboa, the former heavyweight boxing champion. He is the only actor left from the former cycle of films, Rocky—Rocky V (1976-1990) and Rocky Balboa (2006). Though Stallone acted, wrote…

I did not want to mention too much about how symbolically bad the darkness is, in Star Wars Episode VII The Force Awakens (2015, USA). So I went back to the film’s premise and discovered a theme that sounded better. It was rediscovering Luke Skywalker. Luke (Mark Hamill) was the hero of the original trilogy.…

Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia and company, versus villains and corruption. That’s Star Wars. Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), the one that introduced Han Solo, Luke and Leia Episode IV hit a nerve with the movie going public. That is when Star Wars was first unveiled to become pop culture history. The evil…

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