Birthday Wonderland

Just stuff happening. Not to be cheeky, but this is just a series of loosely connected events, with very one dimensional characters, very little emotional journey and nothing much to look at beyond the standard. Akane bunks off school on her birthday. Although she’s not bullied, she doesn’t stand up when she sees bullying, despite…

The Deer King

The Deer King is one of those movies whose message becomes eerily prescient by the time it’s released. First written in 2014 and adapted in 2017, no one could have known that a story about a plague becoming a focal point for political unrest and ethnic tension would become so unfortunately relevant upon its release…