With most of the nation under some degree of lockdown, a cross-country, movie-going road trip just isn’t in the cards. So Jay Baruchel is taking his Twitter followers on a virtual voyage instead.
He continues: “For whoever’s able to stay home right now, they’re now all of a sudden with a surplus of free time. I’d be remiss if I couldn’t point people to some great Canadian TV and movies they might not know exist. The concept of a virtual road trip as a way to tie it together was cool.” The key word of course is virtual. “I did get a lot of s— from strangers who thought it was an actual road trip.
One example of the latter is the Vancouver-shot drama The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open, which last year won the $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award from the Toronto Film Critics Association. “I hadn’t seen it, and this was a great opportunity for me to sit down and watch it, and I am so much better for it,” he says. “It’s as beautiful and magical and artful a film as has come out of the English side of the country in the last 20 years.
Feedback from fans on Twitter just bolsters the list. “With every recommendation we make we get a half dozen back from people across the county,” he says. “We all want to keep finding new stuff to fall in love with.”