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Kiki’s Delivery Service Delivers on the Feels
I have some very deep-feeling children, and movies often succeed a little too well at taking them on emotional journeys. The kids know that, and thus often resist turning on a movie, but, if we manage to convince them to start, often they get engaged. This past week we got our youngest to watch Kiki’s… Continue reading
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Escape
Escapism is a hot genre right now given, well, everything… What do we mean, I wonder, when we say “escapism?” Do we mean a neat romance? A quiet story set inside a cozy magical tearoom or bookshop? A dungeon crawling adventure where the monsters aren’t too terrifying and there’s never a doubt our hero will… Continue reading
Elizabeth Gootzeit 