12 Years a Slave 《为奴十二载》
Director: Steve McQueen Actors: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch 导演：史蒂夫·麦奎因 主演：切瓦特·埃加福特 / 迈克尔·法斯宾德 / 本尼迪克特·康伯巴奇 By Yanyun Wang Looking back to the history of film, there are plenty of movies which are based on slaves’ life, like Amistad, For Massa’s Sake, The Birth of a Nation, Django Unchained and so on. But 12 Years […]
What a Plant Knows 《植物知道生命的答案》
Daniel Chamovitz, Changjiang Literature Art Publishing House 丹尼尔·查莫维茨，长江文艺出版社 By Yanyun Wang TThis book is published by the most famous science magazine Scientific American, and written by renowned biologist Daniel Chamovitz. However What a Plant Knows is not a boring popular science book, it contains the love of human and nature, it shares the sense of […]
Pure Heroine Lorde, Indie-pop 独立流行音乐
By Yanyun Wang A great Grammy, a 16 years old genius musician, an indie-pop album <Pure Heroine>, and a 7-week champion single <Royals>, which contributed to a baptism for your ears. Lorde, a pop singer from New Zealand shocked the entire landscape of music in the end of 2013. Lorde’s Royals won the song of […]
The Wolf of Wall Streetthe-wolf-of-wall-street 《华尔街之狼》
Director: Martin Scorsese Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie 导演：马丁·斯科塞斯 主演：莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥／乔纳·希尔／玛格特·罗比 By Yanyun Wang It is much to be regretted that Leonardo DiCaprio failed to get the Oscar statuette by a narrow chance again in The 86th Academy Awards ceremony. As an uncrowned actor, Leonardo’s acting skill is unquestionable. He grows up from a […]
Book – Yuki Guni (Snow Country) – Kawabata Yasunari 书籍 – 雪国 – 川端康成
Snow Country is a tale of love affair between a Tokyo artist Shimamura and a provincial geisha. The story takes place in the remote hot spring town of Yuzawa. And the title “Snow country”, originally Yuki Guni, comes from the place where the story happens, where Shimamura arrives in a train coming through a long […]
CD – A Winter’s Solstice – 1998 CD – 冬至日 – 1998年
What a New Age! What a Christmas! If you are searching for an album as sweet as honey, capable of being your sugar for the silent night dropping, this could be a decent yet matey choice. Starting with Keiki’s Dream, we are taken with by the harmonica sounds into the woods of somewhere near Hokkaido, […]
Movie – The Nightmare Before Christmas –1993 电影–圣诞夜惊魂–1993年
Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he happened to step foot into the Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween town to help […]
Movie – About time – 2013 电影-时空恋旅人-2013年
At the age of 21, Tim Lake discovers he can travel in time and change what happens and has happened in his own life. His decision to make his world a better place by getting a girlfriend turns out not to be as easy as he might’ve thought. After a lot of cunning time-traveling, he […]