In The Seats

2 days ago | intheseats.ca | Paolo Kagaoan

People tolerate the idea of tech surveillance because we spy on each other anyway – that’s one of the things that Eugene Kotlyarenko‘s The Code is about. That and the breakdown of the relationship of Jay Richard and Celine Unger. Peter Vack and Dasha Nekrasova play the couple also scrambling for solution to beat boredom. Their solution is to rent a haunted yet modern house in Yucca Valley, California. And because it’s COVID and they’re millennials, they’re on their phones, checking texts.

3 days ago | intheseats.ca | Paolo Kagaoan

The new installment of Netflix’ Untold series looks at Brian Johnson, starting out as a regular dad. His children aren’t so regular though, having food allergies that can’t be cured no matter what he tries. So he tried only giving them food that he hunted and foraged and also found Mark Sisson on the internet. Mark Sisson came up with nine ancestral tenets for living that he started broadcasting on social media.

1 week ago | intheseats.ca | Paolo Kagaoan

Allan Karlson (Robert Gustafsson) is the titular character in The 100-Year-Old Man…. Living that long, he meets a lot of interesting people, like a Spanish communist who can’t keep his mouth shut. Fast forward to the present day, when he inadvertently steals money from three bikers (Jens Hultén, Sven Lönn, Bianca Cruzeiro) who seem dangerous. He doesn’t see this as theft and more like property exchanging hands, and he gets a few bystanders into some good trouble.

1 week ago | intheseats.ca | Paolo Kagaoan

Gilbert Arenas and Javaris Crittenton had their own challenges but they seemed to have similar journeys too. Entering the NBA draft six years apart, both didn’t get the placements nor the teams that they wanted from it. Both made their way to the Washington Wizards, part of a sports league adjacent to machismo and temptation. They got into gambling, and a gambling dispute highlighted the fact that both had personalities that were opposite.

2 weeks ago | intheseats.ca | Hillary Butler

The Tree of Authenticity is a visual essay from photographer, artist, and director Sammy Baloji.  His works largely examine the Congolese people and the exploitation of them and their environment.  This film is no different, as it looks at the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s colonial past under Belgium. The documentary is separated into narratives. Three narratives, but is introduced via an article from The Guardian.