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2016 Gift Guide for all things media and entertainment
TYF Staff November 24, 2016

If you are like me, you might’ve too forgotten that we’ve come to the end of November, Thanksgiving is today/tomorrow (depending on when I get this thing posted), and the Holiday season is…

TYF Staff November 24, 2016
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The Film Canon: My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
Allyson Johnson February 15, 2016

I was a late bloomer in the school of Hayao Miyazaki. All things Studio Ghibli evaded me until my second year of college, which was when I finally settled in to watch everything that I’d been missing …

Allyson Johnson February 15, 2016
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The Film Canon: Princess Mononoke (1997)
Nathanael Hood September 14, 2014

In his landmark study The Hero with a Thousand Faces, American mythologist Joseph Campbell defined what he believed to be the “monomyth.” He summarized it as such: “A hero ventures forth from the worl…

Nathanael Hood September 14, 2014
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David’s Movie Review: The Wind Rises
David Plumer February 23, 2014

Rating: 9.5 out of 10 I had been eagerly awaiting the new film, The Wind Rises (Kaze Tachinu) from the Japanese animated filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, since its trailer hit the internet last fall. I have …

David Plumer February 23, 2014
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Top Ten: The Best of Hayao Miyazaki
Allyson Johnson February 20, 2014

Hayao Miyazaki is a genius filmmaker. He has continually created masterpieces, infusing the cinematic world of animation with a vigor and magical realism that it hadn’t seen before his touch. His anim…

Allyson Johnson February 20, 2014
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