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Weird

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story is very funny, Eric Appel and “Weird Al” did a great job. Daniel Radcliffe is fine as Alfred “Weird Al” Yankovic. Evan Rachel Wood is so good as Madonna I didn’t even know it was her. Rainn Wilson is lovable as Dr. Demento. Toby Huss almost steals the whole show as Nick Yankovic, Al’s enraged accordion-hating factory worker father. Julianne Nicholson is charming as Mary Yankovic, Al’s estranged mother. Thomas Lennon is fun as the accordion salesman and Arturo Castro is adorable as Pablo Escobar. It was nice to see Quinta Brunson even though her Oprah Winfrey lacked spark. “Weird Al” Yankovic was enjoyable as Tony Scotti and Jack Black was gorgeous as Wolfman Jack. I think Jack Black is one of the funniest people in the world. He just has to show up and you’re already laughing. An amusing, cheeky, ridiculous movie. We loved it.

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Everything Everywhere

Everything Everywhere All At Once

10/10. The perfect finish to Mother’s Day was going to see this film. We absolutely loved it and haven’t laughed that loudly or that much in ages. Even blinked back tears a few times too. Also fantastic to be in a theatre again, the last time was seven months ago, on my birthday. Amazing to have family members who are willing and able to watch Asha a bit so Dylan and I can go on a rare date. Literally everything about this movie is great. It’s in my top ten best films list and Dylan said he believes it’s his favourite film of all time, out of all the films we’ve ever seen. Obviously highly recommending, I’d go see it again in a heartbeat.

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ZOLA

Taylour Paige is beautiful and a good actress and Janicza Bravo is a good director. ZOLA has a pretty great backstory which makes for a pretty great film. Reminds me a little bit of American Honey and Tangerine, two other films we loved. Riley Keough is also good in ZOLA as is an uproarious Colman Domingo. Fun as well to have Nicholas Braun play the hapless pathetic loser boyfriend, though he’ll always be Greg to me. Like Idris Elba will always be Stringer Bell and Viggo Mortensen will always be Aragorn. Anyway ZOLA is an engaging and entertaining movie. Recommended viewing.

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Possessor

We watched Brandon Cronenberg’s new film POSSESSOR and it was fucking good. Brandon was Dylan’s childhood best friend growing up so we are rooting for him. Also of course Brandon’s father David Cronenberg was one of our favourite directors and we both grew up admiring his work. All these details are part of the many reasons how I knew Dylan was the person for me. POSSESSOR is the perfect film for the son of David Cronenberg to make. It’s excellent. Great work. Recommended.

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The Lovebirds

Recently we watched The Lovebirds starring Issa Rae and Kumail Ali Nanjiani and it was so funny we cried​,​ our stomachs hurt from laughing. At one point we even had to stop the film and stand in the middle of the living room, throw our heads back and really get the laughs out, deep long belly laughs as we doubled over and clutched at each other. Suffice to say the film is hilarious, absurd, ridiculously funny. So refreshing and heartening too, to ​experience cinema starring a black woman and a brown man as the romantic leads and to have them be central to the story instead of just token characters. We love Issa Rae and Kumail Ali Nanjiani, they’re two of our favourite​ entertainers. What a great movie.

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Shivers

Shivers is mad. Like how do you produce work that’s that creative, interesting, fucked up and original, way before everyone else, way different than everyone else, and coming out of somewhere as placid as Canada. The Canadian Arts Council even funded his work despite its twisted and envelope pushing nature. So inspiring and impressive. Fuck yeah David Cronenberg.

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The Revenant

The revenant

I’m stunned by what a masterpiece this movie is. From Babel, Biutiful, and Birdman to this, Alejandro González Iñárritu is a king. Also, I’m not normally very much into Leonardo DiCaprio, but his performance here might finally get him that Oscar, and he’ll deserve it. The Revenant will probably be nominated for Best Director, Best Film, Best Actor, and Best Supporting Actor to Tom Hardy. It should also earn nominations for Best Sound, Editing, Art Direction, and Photography. Extra badass points for the understated score by Alva Noto, Bryce Dessner and Ryuichi Sakamoto. This film is really wonderful. It’s breathtaking, brutal, and beautiful.

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Hateful

Hateful

It’s bad enough to make an awful film, but to make an awful film 3 hours long? Brutal. Quentin Tarantino, what happened to you? The apparent idea was to quit at ten films, before the films started to suck. Sadly, the limit should’ve been set to seven.

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White God

White God

Finally going to see White God this weekend and holy shit am I keen, I’ve only been looking forward to this film for about a thousand million years. Going to see it with the one person from my circle that might actually be even more unreasonably obsessed with dogs than me. Films and dogs, what more could a woman want. Also Dylan comes home tonight, which of course I am additionally much looking forward to, and I should probably throw “husbands” onto the Guaranteed Happiness List too.

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Videodrome

Videodrome

Jesus christ crazy motherfucking film. Saw it so long ago watching it again was like the first time. The film aged beautifully which is saying much. Many films we thought were awesome and cool when we were too young and full of ourselves to properly really decide such things have aged atrociously. See The Crow. Videodrome on the other hand is very much still a yes. I admire and prefer Cronenberg’s earlier films to the later works. Shit is fucked up and really great. Long live the new flesh!

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Inside Llewyn Davis

Inside

I was worried the 8 million accolades from seemingly every living critic would oversell this film but we loved it. Beautifully shot and with a gentle pacing, The Coen Brothers are almost too good at what they do, they make nearly everyone else seem like beginners. Inside Llewyn Davis is poignant and poetic, the cast is great, as is the script and story. The Coen Brothers are equally good at seriousness as they are at humour. “Where’s his scrotum, Llewyn? Where’s his scrotum!” This film is wonderful.

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