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Beautiful Rambling
House of Voices
posted by Kattastrophe on February 12, 2010

 
Sometime after WW2, the Saint Ange orphanage is being decommissioned. Anna (Virginie Ledoyen) arrives to help clean the place up before... whatever's going to happen to it happens. As the final group of children are being shipped away, a girl breaks from the crowd and goes to Anna. She whispers in Anna's ear, "Beware the scary children". So, we're off to a good start. I mean, "scary children"? Really? That's the best the girl could come up with? What about calling them "ghosts" or... Read more...

The Unfulfilling Finale
Dead Like Me: Life After Death
posted by JoVo on February 12, 2010

 
The long-awaited finale to the (sadly) unpopular TV series Dead Like Me had me aching to watch it. My daughter hadn't seen the series yet, so I had to wait the several weeks it took her to mull through the series itself before I could watch it jointly with the rest of my family. Dead Like Me was an insightful, existential drama about Georgia and her motley of Reapers coming to terms with the inevitability and fear of death, allowing them to find meaning in life, or unlife, as the case may... Read more...

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