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"During her family's move to the suburbs, a sullen 10-year-old girl wanders into a world ruled by gods, witches and spirits, and where humans are changed into beasts." - IMDB I have mentioned Spirited Away before, but now it's time to deep dive and talk about everything that makes it one of my favorite films of all time. The Music The music. Nothing more can be said about the music other than it is perfection. This soundtrack is what made me want to play piano (haven't really gotten too far but it’s still a goal of mine). Nothing is as emotional as the orchestral version of Always With Me. There’s no song more haunting and melancholier as the 6th Stop theme. And there’s nothing that hits me more than One Summer's Day. All masterpieces. This is literally the best soundtrack Ghibli has every released.  Chihiro I love Chihiro and resonate with her very much. This girl was able to find such bravery and strength within her in such an unfamiliar world and I admire ...

In college, I took a black and white film photography class. Boy oh boy film surely made me appreciate the ease of digital photography. Though I am very proud of some of the photographs I took during this time. Black and white is such a vibe on its own.   Follow HAV Media! ( literally every link ever )

As a celebration of 4 years of this blog, thought I'd introduce a new blog series! Hollis Films has hosted my blog where I write about my experience of every show & movie I need to talk about - the Friendly Fangirl Podcast is basically an extension of this. HAV Movies hosts my Portfolio YouTube page - as editing is my career goal. However, I currently do not have any outlet for my photography. I was 2 classes away from a Photography certificate. I wasn't really going for it, but it was an opportunity to get into casual photography. I have since taken and edited hundreds of photos and I'd really like to show off my work. I'll go ahead and brag - I've taken some pretty awesome shots 🤣 So here is the first chapter. I have also launched the HAV Media Instagram page - be sure to follow that!  Follow HAV Media! ( literally every link ever )

"Various people get trapped on a mysterious train with an endless number of cars, each one being its own universe, and they must resolve their psychological trauma and emotional issues in order to get home in this animated anthology series." - IMDB   Many many moons ago, one of my favorite youtubers, Skywardwing , made a video about the pilot short for Infinity Train. I feel like the show was just getting picked up, but between Sky’s hype, Ashley Johnson’s voice acting, and the interest I piqued from the actual short itself, I was kind of sold and put the show on my list. Infinity Train ended up lasting a few seasons, whether it was canceled, concluded, or both. I finally got to it so here’s my review of Infinity Train and why you should watch the show for yourself.  Season 1 The first real episode gave me all the feels. I don’t know, I just felt like I was on the cusp of greatness. We got a real beginning for Tulip and was introduced to One One - One One is like a dual perso...

A little late to the Halloween hype train as I've got a couple horror films today. "Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees return to terrorize the teenagers of Elm Street. Only this time, they're out to get each other, too." -  IMDB   This was the first Horror movie I have ever seen in my life. Coming back to it nowadays, it really isn't that bad. I've seen the main original Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th films. Freddy and Jason have got to be the most iconic slasher icons the film industry has ever known so if there were to be a crossover likes this, I'm glad it was them.  This crossover was really like a Nightmare on Elm Street guest starring Jason Vorhees rather than a shared custody of screen time and story. But I don't really mind that during the two big fight scenes between both characters. The film aslo tries to really hard to play off established lore and I respect the way they did it. Overall, it's a decent experience. If they were...