Linda Linda Linda is my first encounter with Shojo cinema — light and fluffy tales of female friendship, fledgling romance, and good feelings that appeal to the loose-socked teenage girl crowd. To be entirely honest, I wouldn’t have picked it up if I knew this beforehand – I had stupidly confused it with Swing Girls, [...]
I grew up on the A Prairie Home Companion. Every weekend my family would drag me on some sort of day trip. Away from my computer, books, and movies, more often than not these trips were less than desirable to my pre-teen self. The only respite from this “out and about-ness came on the drive [...]