4 Benefits Of Buying Pre-Owned Goods

4 Benefits Of Buying Pre-Owned Goods

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Contributed Post We live in a consumerist society, and there is no denying there is something a little bit special about being able to purchase a brand new item and be the first person to use it. However, there are undeniable advantages to buying pre-owned, second-hand items, as we’ll discuss in more depth below… #1 - Less waste Pixabay - CC0 Licence Every time you choose to buy a second-hand item, you are effectively saving that item from landfill. Given that the world is rapidly running out of landfill space, this is an undeniable benefit that really can make a…
A Month of Kurosawa: No Regrets For Our Youth (1946)

A Month of Kurosawa: No Regrets For Our Youth (1946)

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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield -- preorder here! -- I'll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! No Regrets For Our Youth (1946) No Regrets For Our Youth was a post-war drama by Akira Kurosawa that mixes equal parts political protest, love triangle, and family drama. Kurosawa's pictures are virtually always political in some way --…
A Month of Kurosawa: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)

A Month of Kurosawa: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945)

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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield -- preorder here! -- I'll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail (1945) Released in 1945, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail is a slightly comedic retelling of a traditional Kabuki play (which is itself based on a Noh play). It's also…
A Month of Kurosawa: Sanshiro Sugata part 2 (1945)

A Month of Kurosawa: Sanshiro Sugata part 2 (1945)

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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield -- preorder here! -- I'll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! Sanshiro Sugata part 2 (1945) Sequels! One of two made by Kurosawa, and this one is like a 1940s version of the Rocky series, in which the titular character faces the brothers of the guy he defeated in the first movie.…
A Month of Kurosawa: The Most Beautiful (1944)

A Month of Kurosawa: The Most Beautiful (1944)

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To celebrate the upcoming release of my book, Akira Kurosawa: A Viewer's Guide, due out Dec. 15 from Rowman & Littlefield -- preorder here! -- I'll be doing capsule reviews all month covering every single Kurosawa film and posting (very) brief excerpts. These will be short impressions and recommendations, nothing more. For a full, detailed analysis of each, grab the book! The Most Beautiful (1944) The 2nd film by Akira Kurosawa was an unlikely one, given his anti-authoritarian nature: a WWII propaganda film focused on a group of women working in a wartime factory. Here, the young women face illness,…