I'm going to watch The Martian this weekend. I've bought and read the book and did not want to pay much for the movie since they're rarely as good as the book. It's on Netflix Canada now so yeah!

To make it clear: I rarely liked the book, I think the above might be interpreted in the wrong way.

Edit 2 months later: really, not rarely.

I just started watching Wolfblood on Netflix. I thought the intro of the first episode was very derivative of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, i.e. the stereotypical young girl proving herself stronger than the monster(s) but BtVS is one of my favorite TV show of all time so that's not so bad.

I like that most of the actors acting the part of teenagers really look like teenagers, in BtVS the first teenager that looked her age was Dawn in season 5, and it was because she was her age.

So far (currently watching the 2nd episode) I have one thing I do not like, the main male actor (so far) looks like Justin Bieber and older than other characters who are suppose to be the same age. This should not annoy me but it does.

I am still willing to give the show a chance despite the Bieber look alike. I do like the interaction of the main female character and her parents.

Just watched it and felt the urge to share it: 'Uma história de amor e fúria' AKA 'Rio 2096'
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2231208/

Slowly progressing in Jonathan Creek. It's not... quite as good as it deserves to be. But I'm always amused to see young Alan Davis acting, and I like the general concept (music hall magic applied to sleuthing, à la banacek).

Something completely fucking mind-blowing happened to me the other day.

My partner and I decided to watch Tallulah on netflix instant play. I click play, and they show a still image from the film as it loads, there was kind of a angled back-angle profile of a guy from the movie and I immediately turned to my partner and went "woah, that looks like this guy Evan I was friends with / worked with in film school!", she kind of "heh"s at the comment and says "I'm sure a lot of people look like that" (it was dark and sillhouette-ish afterall) and I dampen my sudden excitement and agree, and the movie starts, and immediately the same guy is in a shot and it looks like Evan, so hard. I exclaim "OMG that really looks like Evan," jump up and stop the movie so I can go look because the resemblence is soooo strong (also keep in mind it's been 10 or so years since film school.) I still remember his last name and tell my partner "it's easy to check, his name is Evan Jonigkeit" and at the same time the page goes to the Tallulah details for the movie and BAM there is his name. He had a great performance in the movie and my mind still reels from it. He got down with Ellen Page!

Apparently he's "made it" now!!! He's not a STAR (yet!), buuuut, he's in a bunch of stuff, apparently, including being Toad in the X-Men: Days of Future Past movie and a movie with Steve Buscemi and a more.

I'm sooooo frikken happy for him!!!

Just a bit more because my ego demands. In film school, the project he and I worked on together was a 30-minute short film project that I created/directed/wrote it - he was an actor in it, and had the biggest scene/part/the most to direct. I worked with him quite a bit to get the deliveries and nuances to pull off what I was going for, and we were always really proud of the way it turned out.

tv show Outcast

Galaxy Invader (1985)
Thanks to the recommendation from the fine boys over at Red Letter Media, I am bathing myself in the glorious works of Don Dohler.

Tagline from the movie is 'when an alien is forced to crash land his spaceship on the Earth's surface, he finds himself relentlessly pursued by a bunch of drunken rednecks.'

Sounds like a fun idea for a film, doesn't it? Well, it isn't.

also watch it

These Berserk - The Golden Age Arc Blu-ray, which I purchased during the last couple of months:

Chapter I - The Egg of the King
Chapter II - The Capture of Doldrey
Chapter III - The Advent

All you had to add was 'and pouring myself a cold glass of Molson Ice, Ay!' to make it the most Canadian sounding sentence ever uttered by a human being.

Naw, Molson is owned by an American company. It would have to be Alexander Keith's IPA to be more Canadian, and maybe also using maple syrup as a dipping sauce. I totally would have done that had I thought of it, but I used President's Choice chipotle hot sauce instead. (Yes, that's Canadian too but I think it is available in some places in the US also.)

Also, not to nitpick or anything but it's "eh", not "ay", the latter is Australian. Also, no preceding comma. When a Canadian says "eh" which we really do say all the time (there's no denying that), it is a natural flowing part of speech that is has no pause nor change of inflection or accentuation or emphasis on it. :)

ie: "I'm going to eat my bacon now eh."

Foreigners who do not understand the correct usage of "eh" often isolate it with punctuation or emphasize it in some way such as a pause and raising the volume on "eh", or slurring the word to last longer for emphasis. That isn't proper Canadian though. :)

This Blu-ray edition of Assault on Precinct 13 by John Carpenter.

I just watched "Mr. Right" with Sam Rockwell and Anna Kendrick and it is one of the best (dark) comedy I have seen in a very long time. Maybe it is because I'm old but I haven't enjoyed most successful comedic movies in the last 20 to 30 years even though it use to be one of my favourite movie genre (along good science fiction).

It is not even that dark, most action movies with a side of comedy have higher body counts. And I think it should be tagged as a super human movie because the two main characters have incredible reflexes.