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Love this: Hero pt2

toni December 19, 2015

My scalp is tingling. Wow. LOVE THIS! Pt 2. One of my all time favorite films, if not top favorite: “Hero”, with Jet Li. Chinese, with subtitles. An epic visual and aural masterpiece. Compelling story centered around the unification of China. This is the movie score. The entire soundtrack. Just listen to the first

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Love this: Hero |film

toni December 19, 2015

One of my all time favorite films, if not top favorite: “Hero”, with #Jet Li. Chinese, with subtitles. An epic visual and aural masterpiece. A compelling story centered around the unification of #China. This post is for the music. This is a tiny segment of the film score with a small, important but almost minor

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Gojira

toni November 4, 2014

“Godzilla does not feel emotion…Godzilla is emotion” I imagine that you find this ridiculous. Far from it. This documentary from the BBC begins with the birth of the Godzilla phenomenon as an embodiment of the collective anxiety, helplessness and rage of the Japanese people after WWII. As they fell prey to the American atomic program in

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Awhrance lied, he is not perfect

toni December 16, 2013

My leading man has gone. See my tribute to him from my post on what I feared would be his last birthday, Peter O’Toole lá breithe. A more proper tribute. He has left so much for us to enjoy and savor, it will be as if he never left. Entertainment both on screen and off. Always an

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Peter O'Toole lá breithe

toni August 2, 2013

He has officially retired from acting and the public. And he is missed. We have so much of his work to enjoy that it matters little. As long as he is in good health and prospers – but that is no longer, I fear, his fate. He was born Peter Seamus Lorcan O’Toole on 2 August 1932, Connemara, County

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