Daily Archives: July 18, 2023

Netflixable? Japanese High Schoolers as Boy Band Brawlers — “High & Low: The Worst X”

Posted on July 18, 2023 by Roger Moore

The Japanese Boy Band brawlers “media franchise” “High & Low” may be the craziest thing you ever drop in on as you travel Around the World with Netflix. It is, in many ways, the classic Japanese “give the people (teen … Continue reading →

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Classic Film Review: David Lean looks in on Noel Coward’s “This Happy Breed” (1944)

Posted on July 18, 2023 by Roger Moore

“This Happy Breed” is a middling if affectionate domestic melodrama that spun out of the creative fervor of playwright Noël Coward‘s most productive years, the 1920s and ’30s. It was Coward’s attempt at peeking in on the working class he … Continue reading →

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