Joe Queenan's "Balsamic Dreams" Review

In the hope of finding a book at a very affordable price that could be read in one sitting, I ended picking up Joe Queenan’s “Balsamic Dreams”. I wasn't enticed by the cover or the friendly title of this book but when I flipped its first few pages and read the inviting lines, I stood myself corrected. In Balsamic Dreams, Joe Queenan speaks about the Baby boomer generation. The Baby Boom generation is the time when a sharp increase of...

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Sweeney Todd: The Devil Barber of Fleet Street.

“I was never fascinated by theater-based dramas… Until Sweeney Todd played his razor in front of my face and right then I came to appreciate one.” Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musicality was brought into the reel scene by director Tim Burton in Sweeney Todd: The Devil Barber of Fleet Street. ‘ Sweeney Todd’, is a name which mirrors a sweet and charming character. ‘The Devil Barber of Fleet Street’, the atrocious, vile and infamous subtitle...

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AN ANALYSIS ON AKIRA KUROSAWA'S "DREAMS"

                                         “Man is a genius when he is dreaming."- What better way to interpret this abstract film than by looking through the morality and symbolism that each of Kurosawa's dreams behold.                        ...

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Beyond Redemption

                                   Deep in the night- It was something I only see in my dreams; the extreme desperation of running away from something that was chasing me. While everything around was moving fast, I got to see myself losing my mind of how ridiculously slow I was. I kept on running in a seemingly grim and horrendous backdrop,...

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