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I used to download the top 10 or 20 movies that I thought would appeal to me by reading the year end reviews, but that hasn't happened ...

I was never a big fan of Southampton growing up. It was just grey after living in Deutschland and it wasn't very friendly either. After...

I know we're in the cross hairs of a medieval-pandemic with bodies piled so high the putrefaction is awkward to avoid, but there are pl...

Freer & Blue in Cambodia It's been a few years now so I don't mind publishing these private emails as the lesso...

  Lucy is very interesting. It's punctuated with quack science like Darwin's Origin of the species (partially usable but...

  Ken O'Keefe has been a compelling speaker for Palestine but it's now clear he's a con artist who...

Thai pop has that redemptive quality with mass market appeal.  Kabuki theatre in Japanes?

Extraordinary courage and kindness for a privileged person to be saying this in 1996.

Douglas Dietrich - Revelatory History - Part Two by Charlesfrith on Mixcloud Douglas   Dietrich begins by r...

Most people are unfamiliar that the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs didn't actually end the war. That was signed officia...

" Onegai shimasu "  お願いしま    is a hard phrase to directly translate to English. The second part "shimasu" is...

Update: The Embed isn't working. Download file here. Only Douglas Dietrich can get away with compellingly describing how the U...

I can feel a little Japanese film season blending in with my 'classics I've managed to miss' period I'm going through....

The absence of media coverage over Fukushima prefecture nuclear power station disasters has been irritating me, but I didn't want ...

I purposefully chose dialogue incongruous with the cinematography above because that's a feeling I often get with Ozu's movies, or ...

More interesting for people familiar with Dr Farrell's work but good free range thinking on a lot of subjects if you're like it eru...

Notice that the craft looks like the lenticular clouds or orbs that are increasingly accepted as non terrestrial craft?

Well worth watching for Asia watchers wishing to know how the venal Vatican targeted the Far East with a view to playing out their...