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I rewatched Good Will Hunting this week at our little cinema club between me, my sister and our Filipina neighbour, and I remembered I wrote something about Robin Williams on my journal some time ago. Here it is… I had a crush on him when I was a kid, seeing him…
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The Past, Present, and Future of Blogging (from my point of view)
I wish I could be a teenager again and blog the way that I used to. I often wrote about this on the old version of this Wonderfilled Issa blog, but yeah. I had so much time as a homeschooler just to rave about football, my favourite shows and computer games,…
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Nolan and the Villanelle (Cinema and Poetry)
So I realised that Nolan’s use of a villanelle for Interstellar is so fitting, considering the poetic form’s mechanics. It’s cyclical in nature, you could say you’re going back in time every stanza…
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My notes on Tenet: a mind-boggling masterpiece (SPOILERS AHEAD)
I just finished this movie the over the weekend. Initially, it made me fall in love with the action and music, then it engaged my intellect in a way that made me feel really refreshed. It ended with an “emotional gut punch” like the best short sci-fi stories out there, the…
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This week on film: Five Movie Reviews (Oblivion, Lara Croft, some Clint Eastwood for good measure, and so on)
small update and context: I finally finished my first semester’s classes last Thursday 😱 And that gave me time to rest – although the first days after left me with such low energy since I was doing six presentations back-to-back over the past two weeks. Like, ultimate nerd move just reading…
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This week on film: Insomnia, pitching, and interview clippings about movies
I watched the 2002 clip of Chris Nolan interviewing Al Pacino and it was really fascinating getting a picture of (oof I am typing this accidentally in my Romanian keyboard and everything is red), okay, fixed it… anyway, a picture of a noob kid interviewing a master. (Oh and this time,…
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Rewatching ‘Prince Caspian’ as a lifelong Narnia fan and for the first time as an adult (Spoilers)
(from October 4, 2020) Today my brother and I just finished watching it (first time for him) and I was watching it fully with a more mature comprehension for the first time. We are watching the Narnia movies as we finish reading each book (I read aloud to him), and we…
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Autumn in Armenia, 2024
I have been wanting to go into nature for a long time. I longed to get lost in a forest or stare at a high mountain from afar… Blame it on the poets I’ve read or musicians I’ve listened to – those who went into the refuge of secluded mountainsides or…

