MUST-WATCH: Excessive faux pas in the Top 10!
Posted October 24, 2021 6:06 pm.
The show with everyone’s favourite theme song is back! We’ve also got a new movie from iconoclast auteur Wes Anderson, and the last season of Issa Rae’s hit sensation! But what’s going to hold the top spot? You’ll have to keep reading to find out!
The French Dispatch
Where to watch: Cinemas
Starting this week with the latest from Wes Anderson!
Bill Murray in the film THE FRENCH DISPATCH. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2020 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation All Rights Reserved
The French Dispatch is Anderson’s latest film, and it’s a tribute to the New Yorker. The film is an anthology tale based around the French Dispatch of the Liberty, Kansas Evening Sun (a fictional magazine). Bill Murray (from Groundhog Day and the Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou) plays the paper’s editor, and the film shows 3 segments based on stories by reporters played by Tilda Swinton (from We Need to Talk About Kevin and the Grand Budapest Hotel), Frances McDormand (from Nomadland and Moonrise Kingdom) and Jeffrey Wright (from No Time to Die and Only Lovers Left Alive). The film, set during the mid-20th century, shows Anderson at the height of his style. If you’re not a fan of that style of tight framing, complex sets and immaculate costuming, you probably won’t like this film. But if you are a fan, you’ve gotta check this out!
You can watch it in cinemas now!
Insecure (Season 5)
Where to watch: Crave
Next up, the final season of a modern HBO classic!
Insecure is a show about the contemporary black experience as seen through the eyes of Issa (played by the show’s creator Issa Rae, who also starred in the Lovebirds and the Hate U Give). This new season sees her achieving a modicum of success, starting off the season by heading to a panel at a nearby university. But her work is leaving her unfulfilled, and she’s considering moving to San Francisco with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Lawrence (played by Jay Ellis from Escape Room). On top of that, she’s trying to fix her friendship with Molly (played by Yvonne Orji from Night School), after lots of tension from seasons past. This is the show’s final season, so make sure to catch up on the previous seasons!
You can watch it weekly on Crave!
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open
Where to watch: Crave
Now, here’s some serious Canadian fare!
The poster for The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open.
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open is a film co-directed by and starring Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers (who also starred in Blood Quantum and Night Raiders). Kathleen Hepburn (who also directed Never Steady, Never Still) shares directing duties with Tailfeathers, and the film also stars Violet Nelson (who also appeared in Night Raiders). Nelson plays Rosie, a young pregnant Indigenous woman living with her abusive boyfriend. She runs away one day, he chases her, and she runs into Áila, played by Tailfeathers. Áila helps her escape, and the two women spend the day together, learning about each other.
You can check this film out on Crave now!
Locke & Key (Season 2)
Where to watch: Netflix
Next up is something for the kids!
Locke & Key is a horror-fantasy show. It stars Connor Jessup (from Blackbird and Falling Skies), Emilia Jones (from High-Rise and and CODA), and Jackson Robert Scott (from It and It: Chapter Two) as siblings who move with their mother to their father’s childhood home after his death. There, they discover the house is filled with numerous magical keys. Each key has the ability to unlock something in the house, whether it be a portal to another world, the ability to appear as another person, or even a cell holding a demon. In the second season, the siblings have to work together again to fight a returning demon called Dodge who can now take the shape of their closest friends.
You can watch all episodes on Netflix now!
Curb Your Enthusiasm (Season 11)
Where to watch: Crave
Lastly, Larry David is back!
The 11th season of Curb Your Enthusiasm has begun! This new season sees all the returning characters come back, as well as guest appearances from Patton Oswalt (from A.P. Bio and Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K.), Vince Vaughn (from Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story and True Detective), and Seth Rogen (from This is the End and Knocked Up). This show has been going on for 20 years, and just when we thought Larry couldn’t keep embarrassing himself, he always surprises with a new way! There truly is nobody as repugnant, while simultaneously joyful to watch as Larry David.
You can watch episodes weekly on Crave!
MUST WATCH TOP 10
10. The Velvet Underground – Apple TV+
9. Locke & Key (Season 2) – Netflix
8. No Time to Die – Cinemas
7. Night Raiders – Cinemas
6. Insecure (season 5) – Crave
5. The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open – Crave
4. Succession (Season 3) – Crave
3. Dune – Cinemas
2. The French Dispatch – Cinemas
1. Curb Your Enthusiasm – Crave
