Welcome to another week of What’s Up 2020! I’ve been a bit confused with the days of the week since its been just wild at work. Either way, its been a little crazy in general. I’m hoping that once the film festivals wrap up that I’ll take a little moment to get things all back into order. For now, let’s check out what’s up this past week!
READING
Currently reading: The Girl on the Train
C’mon! Who am I kidding? No progress. I don’t want to make excuses for myself. I only have one pair of eyes and its been on overtime trying to catch up with film festivals so reading has been put aside. Light at the end of the tunnel though so we’ll be back to reading soon!
PLAYING
Currently playing: Double Kick Heroes
I’ve managed to get two 15 minute sessions of Double Kick Heroes in. Its more to relax and not have to commit too much since Double Kick Heroes is essentially different 2 to 3 minute songs to play though for their rhythm game style. Its listening to music, gaming and relaxing all at the same time. Plus, its the silliest zombified creatures that we kill. The last level, I was killing zombified sheeps and rams. The beginning part was zombie chickens.
WATCHING
- Happy Death Day (2017, Review)
- Happy Death Day 2U (2019, Review)
- Shall We Play? (2020, Review)
- A Thief’s Daughter (2019)
- Bleed With Me (2020, Review)
- Poissonsexe (2020)
- Wisdom Tooth (2019)
- Holidate (2020)
- For The Sake of Vicious (2020, Review)
- Moving On (2019)
- Red Post on Escher Street (2020, Review)
Yet again a rather packed watch list. As we wrapped up the 31 Days of Halloween and Festival du Nouveau Cinema finished on October 31st. Reviews are still coming up as you can see the lack of review links. I went on a watching rampage to cram everything in before it wasn’t accessible anymore. Other than the highlight, I do think that Happy Death Day was my pleasant surprise watch that I really had a ton of fun discovering. Even the sequel was pretty good. With Blood in the Snow Festival also starting up, there’s some pretty cool premises but nothing that I’m super excited about yet. For the Sake of Vicious is so far the best watch and its not really horror but more revenge action thriller.
However, I felt like I need to highlight an FNC film choice. These last few movies were all pretty solid and the reason why I do like covering the festival. Its all deep movies and dramas which is why I don’t watch dramas a lot. The highlight for the week is Sion Sono’s Red Post on Escher Street and my review really says everything about why I like it so much. I like movies that don’t have a ton of meaning in context but end up being this ridiculously fun experience.
BINGING
- Perfect and Casual (2020)
Currently binging: Professional Single, Our Song 2, Love Signal 3, Go Newbies, The Journey Across The Night, Meeting Mr. Right: Season 3
I’m taking it easy on TV for a while since with the festivals, I’m really behind on TV binges (not that I wasn’t before but now even Netflix series are behind which I’m normally pretty timely at releasing). With that said, Perfect and Casual, a series that I loved a ton, wrapped up. Its such a fun series. The chemistry was great and the story was fun. Although I have to say all these contract marriages concept is getting a bit overly used. I have my eye on a few others and saw they also had the same story premise. This one has those feel-good vibes where the guy character is designed really well. Plus, I like Miles Wei so maybe I’m a little biased.
With that said, Professional Single is approaching the first half done and its super cute. The Journey Across The Night is nearing the end and still, the other shoe hasn’t quite dropped about the main male lead’s fate which I suspect should turn dark and honestly, I’m looking forward to it (hopefully it will happen). As for variety shows, Love Signal 3 is in its final 2 episodes and Go Newbies should be in its final one or two episodes although Meeting Mr. Right S3 and Our Song 2 is fairly early in their season. All shows that I’m enjoying. I’m going to need to look for some other Chinese dramas to start up soon. Just a little indecisive on what to tackle next. There’s a few detective mystery genre series that I have my eye on.
That’s it for this What’s Up!
What have you been reading/watching/playing/binging?
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