Fannish Fifty Challenge: Post # 9: Happy National Canadian Film Day!

[ride_4ever]

For National Canadian Film Day, I here offer a link about the "Peace by Chocolate" movie and how to view it online. (Me, I have a copy of it on DVD.) "Peace by Chocolate" is the same company I mentioned in a previous post, both for their delicious and very Canadian chocolates and also for their tremendous charitable works in such things as their fundraising work in tandem with the Canadian Red Cross.


If you want to see reviews before watching the movie, just do a search of "Peace by Chocolate movie".

How to view it online.


Where to purchase their chocolates.

Watch on YouTube

Comments

[amedia]

I keep forgetting I have a box full of the lovely chocolate ... somewhere in the entranceway limbo where unopened boxes wait to be loved!

[ride_4ever]

Have you remembered and retrieved the chocolate yet?

[amedia]

I have remembered it, retrieved it, and begun nomming it and sharing it with TODS! It's sooooo good. ♥

[scintilla10]

Aww! <3 Thanks for sharing about the movie - I didn't know they were making that!

[ride_4ever]

But did you know before about the chocolates?

whoops, missed this

[verushka70]

I'll try to watch the movie... I obvs missed National Canadian Film day.

However, in a strange synchronicity, I FINALLY watched Passchendaele THAT NIGHT after I got home from work. How weird is that? Due South HD (on Youtube) added it to their videos months ago - but I didn't know it until I was feeling fic-ish (yay!) and went to watch some fave dS eps, only to discover they had added an AI 4K HD restoration of Passchendaele, which I had (up to that point) never seen.

I had been looking to buy a digital/streaming copy but none were available in the US, that I could find. (The usual embargoes against Canadian-made Canadian content apply I suppose. In return, they should have such embargoes against US content there, but of course they don't, unfortunately for them... so they're flooded w/American content but we have no such options here for Canadian content, grrr. Very unfair/imbalanced IMHO.)

So it was really nice to discover that something I had been wanting to see/buy was available, albeit from an unexpected source. The restoration is great (as far as I can tell -- having neither a 4K TV or 4K screen on my laptop). I connected my laptop to my Seiki TV (from MicroCenter!) and watched it on the "big screen" (hardly - 32" is by no means a "big screen" anymore, but I don't want my tiny living room overwhelmed by a TV that I'd have to sit in the dining area to watch to get the proper viewing distance!).

What a heartbreaker. A bit heavy on the symbolism at the end, but that's kinda PG for ya.

Then yesterday I discovered there was a "buy two for $9.99" sale of movies on Vudu (my streaming collection cloud), so for the price of less than 2 Vietnamese Iced Coffees at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (srsly, they're $6.79 each but OH so good when I have to take my sister to radiation and I just dragged myself out of bed 40 minutes before...), I bought both Us and Get Out (by Jordan Peele).

Holy shit, thinky, scary horror (scifi-ish in the case of Get Out) with subtle and not so subtle social commentary? That's my jam, having cut my horror teeth on things like the ORIGINAL Romero Night of the Living Dead and it's sequels - and there is far too little of it these days. I'm late to the party with THOSE two flicks too, but yay that I finally saw them AND Passchendaele. I love the two broken main characters in Passchendaele (PG does broken men so well, doesn't he? *lusts*) and as a result of watching that I (of course) had thinky fixit thoughts.

Well enough babbling... Gotta work. (And I finally got a letter from my sister's doctors to allow me to openly have my phone at work, yay!) Looking forward to getting together IRL!

Re: whoops, missed this

[ride_4ever]

We can be discussing Passchendaele soon IRL!