Her evil brother is darkening lamp posts around the world and scattering the fireflies about to keep dreamers from having good dreams. Rescue the fireflies and restore light to save the Dream World. A nice concept for a game, and well-implemented in the 3D environment. Some of the physics ...
As we walked down the South American road fireflies began to flash around us in the fields and forest. A chorus of insects rose on either side of us in a joyous greeting to the approaching night. Bats gracefully streaked above us in the slate grey sky. More fire flies appeared and the ...
It's a flag blowin' in the summer wind Over some fallen hero's grave It's a high school prom It's a springstein song It's a welcome home parade It's a man on the moon And fireflies in June Kids sellin lemonade It's cities and farms ...
who was as kind as he was smart and who happened to enjoy teaching kids. I’ve written about him before and how much I learned from him about life, but at the time I merely accepted the situation as just another part of my weird son-of-a-writer-and...
Then a golden man, a swarm of embers, like fireflies, and then a goddess. For what could a woman with a thousand hands be but a goddess? His fist shattered when the goddess shot his not-daughter. And that moment, when his blood mixed with the clay stained with the drink and the ...
Meanwhile, the mother arms herself with returns from the last trip. Her two young daughters forget games of flashlight tag or favorite TV shows and strap on tennis shoes and seatbelts: and they're off. On summer nights, when it's light until after the fireflies arrive, the air is heavy ...
movies we tend to trot out to defend what we love, likeGrave of the FirefliesorThe Breadwinner. But rather than performing the usual roll-call of animated movies made for adults (as much as I love them too), it is instead worth unpacking the attitude we develop in response to these ...
Part of the appeal of "Grave of the Fireflies" is that it is part of Ghibli's own Barbenheimer, as the movie wasreleased the same day as "My Neighbor Totoro," as a double feature. It simply makes sense — you have a harrowing movie about the horrors of war, and then a whimsical...
What's a girl to do? When you're yearning for something new And you're hanging, you're hanging, you're hanging With the wrong crowd And you're hanging, you're hanging, you're hanging With the wrong crowd Apple Of My Eye When you're on your own You walk through the rain You wa...
In the meantime, you can feast your senses on Studio Ghibli’s extensive film roster: Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind(1984) Castle in the Sky(1986) Grave of the Fireflies(1988) My Neighbor Totoro(1988) Kiki’s Delivery Service(1989) ...