Translating Subtitles and Screenwriting

I broke my promise to post at least once a day the last few days because I took on an emergency freelance case translating subtitles for a Taiwanese film trying to make a film festival deadline. It was a brutal grind, a 110-minute film with around 14,000 Chinese characters to translate within basically a 24-hour
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Top 10 Films of 2012!

All those 2012 movie blitzes bring us to this point — the top 10 films of 2012! Out of the 109 movies from 2012 (released in 2012, not necessarily watched in 2012) I have reviewed on this blog, these are the cream of the crop. To be honest, I’m fairly disappointed with this list. Looking
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Cliches in Fantasy Writing

I haven’t done a post today yet, so I thought I would bring up something that’s been on my mind ever since I started working on my fantasy novel – the dreaded fantasy cliche. Just to start things off, here are a few lists of fantasy cliches I found on the Internets: The Grand List
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Movie Review: Hugo (3D) (2011)

To 3D or not 3D, that is the question. If you know me or have read some of my reviews, you’ll know I hate 3D films with a passion usually reserved for botched haircuts and cakes with hairs on them. But I heard there were rumours on the internets that Hugo is the first ever film
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