Month: March 2016
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Akira 3
I’m still in the process of going through Akira again, reading a volume every once in a while. This morning I read through all of volume 3, which is where it starts to diverge the most from the movie. When I read this, it makes me a bit sad that we never got more manga…
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Ajin
A friend recommended the manga series Ajin to me earlier today, and I then proceeded to start reading it feverishly, currently up to volume 3. I so love it when a manga series draws you in like this, and you just can’t stop reading chapter after chapter. It tells the rather violent story of a boy…
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And Then There Were None
This mini-series that adapts the Agatha Christie novel couldn’t have come out at a better time, as it was just after I went to a really enjoyable Agatha Christie exhibition here in Montreal, and so I was primed to get back to reading some of her books (I’ve become a big fan of her books…
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House of Cards
I watched the first season of House of Cards when it was originally released, and quite enjoyed it, but then for some reason never got around to watching the following seasons, even though I did have an interest in doing so. While I was hit with the flu a couple of weeks ago, I binged…
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Pee-Wee’s Big Holiday
I thought this was a hell of a fun movie to watch. Sure, it’s not perfect, and there are lots of dud jokes, but overall I found myself laughing quite a bit, and I just dug the general weirdness of the movie, and the general atmosphere. They did a pretty good job at resurrecting Pee-Wee,…
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Creed
Enjoyed this a lot more than I thought I would, including the pretty subdued performance by Stallone. Sure, there are still some cheesy bits – I’m thinking especially of the end of the training montage where he’s running in the streets, followed by the dudes on the bikes, and then starts punching in the air…