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Month: October 2017

  • The Beguiled

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    I was looking forward to watching this because I’m a big fan of Sofia Coppola’s films, and it felt like forever since I’d last seen one — looking up IMDB, I see that her last film was The Bling Ring, back in 2013. As for this, I’ll say that I didn’t much like the story,…

  • The Little Hours

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    I was really looking forward to watching this — the trailer they released for this film was one of the funniest things I’d seen. Having watched the full movie, I can’t help but feel disappointed. It was still mostly fun to watch, but the vast majority of the big laughs were all featured in that…

  • Pumping Iron

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    This is it, the film that gave us Arnold Schwarzenegger. As famous/infamous as this documentary is, I’d never seen it, and so didn’t really know much of what to expect (other than the famous scene where you see Arnie smoking a joint after he wins the title). I did enjoy this, although you have to…

  • Exorcist II: The Heretic

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    As I start winding down my 1977 movie marathon (when I started, I immediately picked the 10 movies I was going to watch), this is definitely one of the weirdest of the bunch. The original Exorcist is of course a classic (but to be honest, one that I haven’t revisited in years), and I think…

  • Alias Grace

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    Yeah, I kinda went full on Canadiana last night, and the final piece — also watched through the CBC app — is the first episode of this adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s acclaimed novel. I think this is a co-production between the CBC and Netflix (so on Netflix outside of Canada). I didn’t really know anything…

  • Baroness Von Sketch Show

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    Another find through the CBC app (or rather as highlighted in Apple’s Television app) was this all-female comedy series that is currently on its second season. Reading up about it afterwards, it gets described as the best thing in Canadian comedy since Kids in the Hall, and I think I agree. I’ve watched the first…

  • Brand Canada

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    With the recent Apple TV update and the release of Apple’s Television app in Canada, I’ve been watching a bit more streaming stuff outside of Netflix. It got me to download the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) app, and I was surprised to see that all of their original series are all available to watch through…

  • Big Mouth

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    This came out of nowhere for me (added to Netflix last week), as I had heard nothing about it. But seeing that Nick Kroll and a lot of other fun actors were involved, I decided to check it out, and wow, this series is incredibly funny. I’ve watched the first 3 episodes, and they’re deliciously…