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Daily Archives: June 5, 2023
The Ivory Game (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): Save elephants
You may be a little relieved after watching Netflix documentary film “The Ivory Game”. Yes, it is really alarming to see how thousands of elephants in Africa were brutally slaughtered just because of their precious ivory tusks during last several … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary, Elephant, Ivory trade, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower (2017) ☆☆☆(3/4): A vivid chronicle of the Umbrella Revolution
I could not help but feel a bit depressed as belatedly checking out Netflix documentary film “Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower”, which closely follows Joshua Wong and what he actively led along with many young people in Hong Kong during 2012-2016, … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary, Protestantism, Real-life figure, Real-life incident, Student
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Confess, Fletch (2022) ☆☆☆(3/4): Fletch returns…
Gregory Mcdonald’s “Fletch” was one of numerous pulpy stuffs I gladly devoured during my wild and crazy childhood years in the 1990s. It is too bad that any of McDonald’s following sequel novels was not translated in South Korea, but … Continue reading





