Haiku Reviews: Kids in Danger and Objectified Women

Franco Spain, Girl meets

Faun. Grisly war in real

And imagined worlds.

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Anarchist sows fear.

Bomb from Bijou. Sidney in

Aftermath astounds.

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Day long love story;

Teens and lives in their orbit.

Connect, even brief.

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Manon flees with boy,

Dies poor. Fleshed out tract bogs down

Limber Mattila.

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Banished bastard tests

Philosophy. Make garden

Grow: toil and endure.

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Senegalese soul

Crushed in France. Avant-garde style,

Post-colonial work.

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"Madhu" times three? Past

Lives. Love never dies. Indian

Gothic love story.

Notes from December

From December's movie-watching, reading, and theater-going - in haiku ...

Prince Charles ascends then

Abdicates. The hollow crown

Succeeds to William.

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Aeneas: from Troy to 

Carthage. Conquer than be 

Conquered in love / war.

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Newt docks in New York.

Magical beasts loose. "Know not

Destroy" preserves all.

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Bros rob banks, save farm.

Root for "bad guys." The Western 

Is alive and well.

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Hippie fam honors

Dead mom. All kinds of smarts to

Make it in this world.

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What good is love from

Afar? Textured light and sound.

The pilgrims' the star.

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Five lives, one bullet.

Victor jailed, freed - stands in for

Spain. Minor opus.

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Late Lang, cop against

Corrupt system. Coffee pot!

Grahame blasts them all.

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Detroit horror: blind

Man versus home invaders.

Escape from ruins.

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Pete lost in the wild,

Dragon comforts.  An eco 

Conscious folk remake.

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Red snitch, dissident,

Married man - alternate lives.

Abroad is freedom.

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Man, woman, boy, girl -

Theater games, Albee word plays:

Youth, age, Illusions.

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"Tight-knit family,"

AIDS era. Trina's true north.

Tears of love than death.

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Bey wants Italian,

Eats pasta. Act one ends with

Cuckoo clock chorus.

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Eighties Brit "Mad Men,"

Boil takes over Bagley's mind.

We are slaves to ads.

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Potter and Malfoy

Juniors time travel. How to

Be a good parent?

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Salome dances,

Wants prophet's head. Strauss music

Descends to the pits.

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Jackie mourns, plans a

Funeral, leaves beautiful 

Legacy behind.

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Cressida exchanged 

For Greek - how women survive

Men in times of war.

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Joan hears voices, fights

The English. What's at stake? Truth

Sunk by Politics.

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Bill's friend visits the

Kidders. Con man? Lover? Live

With the side you know.

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Carr, Joyce, Lenin, and

Tzara in Zurich / "Earnest."

Art's role in this world?

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Band of rebels steal

Death Star plans. War movie in

Space. All lost, hope lives.

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George gets comeuppance.

Selfishness stunts progress and love.

Moorehead steals from all.

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Cops chase cop-killers.

Psycho's human. Hermann strings.

Loners meet, connect.

Notes from November

From November's movie-watching, reading, and theater-going - in haiku ...

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Aliens land. Friend? Foe?

Adams soars. Film grammar play:

The flashback reframed.

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Lila and Lenu -

Girlhood in Naples. What drives

Friendship? Rivalry?

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Dad dies, Penny meets

Squatters. Skewers activists.

Reader must like quirk.

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"Traffic" in Punjab.

Collisions feel too contrived.

Seriousness kills high.

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Serb turns to black cat.

Fear of assimilation,

Losing ethnic past.

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Old flame visits with

Script. Doubles, Hitchcock, and the

Femme fatale re-dressed.

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"Blow Up" sendup, two

Men expose murder, corruption -

Systems collapse farce.

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Widow offs five men.

Hitchcock homage by Truffaut.

Jeanne Moreau commands.

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More than just noir,

A love story, too. Deneuve 

Is joy / hurt, hot / cold.

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Nate recalls break-ups.

Dies. Truth: life's ephemeral.

Awesome tilting set.

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Moana restores 

Goddess' heart.  Digital peak

Of water effects.

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Markie in Winesburg

I'll-fitted/ fated. Late Roth,

Same misogyny?

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Bruno's blot removed

In Berkeley. Player? Or played?

There's always rebirth.