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What Being a Teacher, Teaches You About Yourself
Give it a few months and, as a teacher, you will find that you are teaching in more ways than one. While inspiring and molding young...
Laura Bailey
Jul 11, 20193 min read
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The 5 Emotional Stages of Hiking at Songnisan National Park
Hiking a mountain always comes with a mix of emotions. Stages, if you will. Especially for those not particularly experienced in muscle...
Laura Bailey
Jul 2, 20195 min read
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A Korean Wedding: Marrying of East and West
Her pale dewy face appeared frozen for the camera as fawning friends queued out the room, waiting for their precious moment with the...
Laura Bailey
Jun 29, 20194 min read
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Birds of Passage, Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra (2019)
Ciro Guerra is just as much an anthropologist, exploring his home country, as a film maker. His intertwining of the two disciplines in...
Laura Bailey
Jun 12, 20193 min read
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Why Daejeon is the best city for living and teaching in South Korea
Outside of Seoul and Busan and then maybe Daegu, Daejeon is probably the most popular destination in Korea for English teachers. When I...
Laura Bailey
Apr 19, 20194 min read
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Taken For-granted Places That Look Like Hawaii But Aren’t As Expensive
Camiguin, Philippines This is an extremely underrated, often unheard of destination. It boasts the enchanted lure of Hawaii’s natural...
Laura Bailey
Apr 19, 20193 min read
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Shoplifters, Hirokazu Koreeda (2018)
Hirokazu Koreeda’s Shoplifters was 2018’s winner for the prestigious Palm d’Or at Cannes. It was up against a number of impressive films...
Laura Bailey
Apr 16, 20193 min read
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Chungking Express, Wong Kar Wai (1994)
"A dreamy, witty and altogether perfect movie that never fails to lift my mood" Chungking Express, directed by Wong Kar Wai, comes into...
Laura Bailey
Mar 18, 20194 min read
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Beyond the Jungle of Borneo
The tree fronds were like blinds framing a saturated jungle into which our small Klotok boat plunged head first, its engine churning like...
Laura Bailey
Mar 3, 20193 min read
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Roma, Alfonso Cuarón (2018)
Roma, so far has achieved best film at the Bafta awards, has been hailed by critics almost across the board and is one of the favourites...
Laura Bailey
Feb 15, 20194 min read
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Adaptation, Spike Jonze (2002)
One of my most memorable and wonderfully bizarre moments from a movie. Spike Jonze’s auteurship is marked by a reputation for bewildering...
Laura Bailey
Jan 13, 20193 min read
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Baby Driver, Edgar Wright (2017)
Baby Driver, new cinematic car chase romp from Edgar Wright, is as thrillingly romantic as it is stylishly pastiche. Paying homage to...
Laura Bailey
Dec 30, 20183 min read
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Eighth Grade, Bo Burnham (2018)
Eighth grade tells the story of Kayla who along with all the horrors of growing up, suffers from crippling shyness. This is a truly...
Laura Bailey
Dec 18, 20183 min read
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Amores Perros, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2000)
Amores Perros deals with three storylines of antiheroes that all collide in a tragic car accident. The first deals with the incestuous...
Laura Bailey
Nov 21, 20183 min read
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Climax, Gaspar Noe (2018)
Climax (Gaspar Noe, 2018) allures its audience with its dangerous and sexually charged title. One might be expecting that the film will...
Laura Bailey
Nov 4, 20184 min read
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Leto, Kirill Serebrenikov (2018)
Summer (Leto) is a 2018 film directed by Russian rebel and filmmaker Kirill Serebrenikov. The film is a tribute to the underground rock...
Laura Bailey
Nov 4, 20183 min read
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This is Not a Film, Jafar Panahi (2011)
Jafar Panahi, director, producer, writer and the documentary's main subject, has been put under house arrest for allegedly promoting...
Laura Bailey
Nov 4, 20183 min read
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2001: A Space Odyssey, Stanley Kubrick (1968)
Now we can see the same narratives and philosophies present in films such as Blade Runner, Her, Ex Machina and even in TV series such as...
Laura Bailey
Nov 4, 20184 min read
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