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Month: February 2017

  • Brewster’s Millions

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    One of those wacky comedies of the era, and you know what, it was still pretty fun to watch. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not a great film, but the ridiculous premise still works, and I quite enjoyed watching Richard Pryor again. I’m pretty surprised to see it was directed by Walter Hill though, since…

  • Brazil

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    Definitely one of the classics of 1985, and I loved watching it again — certainly one of the films that has aged the best. Ridiculous, funny, dark, maddening — it’s everything and more.

  • A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge

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    I haven’t been updating my Debaser diary with all of the movies I’ve continued to watch as part of my 1985 movie watching marathon, but I have been watching lots (26 and counting), and so time to catch up. Unlike Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (aka part 5), which was pretty much straight up a…

  • Riverdale

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    I didn’t think I’d watch this series — although I was kinda interested when I heard it had a Twin Peaks influence, I didn’t think I wanted to watch an Archie show. But it popped up on Netflix (here in Canada), and so I thought it might be fun to watch with my wife (who…

  • Medici: Masters of Florence

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    For our lunch time “Watch Club” at work, after we got done watching Crazyhead, we moved on to this, and so far it’s been pretty good (we’ve watched the first 4 episodes of 8). It’s a pretty decent story, with a good cast, and hey, who doesn’t like watching Robb Stark. The only thing that…

  • Marco Polo (Season 2)

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    As I mentioned not too long ago, I finally got around to watching season 1 of Marco Polo, and now I’m halfway through season 2. Like I said then, I’ve really come to enjoy this show, and I’m a bit bummed that we won’t be getting any more seasons.

  • Crazyhead

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    I recently watched this with some friends at work during lunch time (we’d watch an episode every day), and it made for some really fun watching. Yes, it’s pretty much a British take on Buffy, but it still feels like its own thing, and was definitely even more darkly funny. I’d love to get another…

  • Supplement Two

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    There’s a second edition of the Supplement: Tokyo talk series coming up (on March 8), this time featuring Bill Daniel, Craig Mod, Tetsuya Goto, and Eiko Nagase. More details here.