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Tag: Masanobu Takayanagi

  • Movie Review: “Spotlight” (Tom McCarthy, USA 2015)

    In the early days of the synchronized sound motion picture, Hollywood had to seek out people to write dialogue. It was no longer a matter of the occasional title card, so the writing had to be stronger than it had been before. Lacking a substantial pool of established writers in the forms that the new…

  • Movie Review: “All Is Lost” (J.C. Chandor, USA 2013)

    A lone sailor, wandering the ocean seemingly aimlessly, is startled by a thud and the sudden and unwelcome presence of water in his yacht. He heads to the deck to discover that his yacht has run into a shipping container full of shoes. He fixes the hole in the hull, only to realize that a…