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Blood, Another Dhampir
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— 7 Jul 2009 Pete Baran Comment

Any live action version of a manga or anime, especially one which aims to appeal to an American audience, has to make concessions. Usually these concessions render the whole thing oddly flat or nonsensical: the film of Dragonball Z (Dragonball: Evolu[…]

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The Private Parts Of Pippa Lee
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— 7 Jul 2009 Pete Baran 7 comments

There is something strange about an author adapting and directing a film of her own novel. Rebecca Miller’s The Private Lives Of Pippa Lee is exactly this thing, and you wonder how long Miller wants to live in the head of her remarkably passive cha[…]

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