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FILM: Already a favourite of Torontoist, Nollywood Babylon is kicking off a three-night stint tonight at the NFB Mediatheque. This NFB-produced documentary explores one of the largest film industries in the world, based in one of the poorest nations in the world: Nigeria. The B-movie aesthetics and the clash of "traditional mysticism and modern culture" makes for a fascinating look at this largely unexplored area of Nigerian life. NFB Mediatheque (150 John Street), 7 p.m., $6 ($4 for students, seniors, NFB and DOC members).

Recently we’ve—rather randomly—been reading someone’s blog reminiscing about the highs and lows (mostly lows) of living with a scholarship basketball player in college, Livin’ Large. It was after reading about ten or so entries we realized that we were, most likely, reading the blog of the film we’ll probably be writing about in five years or so. It kind of dampened our negativity about Julie and Julia, the film version of someone’s blog in which they attempted to chronicle their efforts to cook their way through Julia Child’s The Art of French Cooking. After all, perhaps the original blog was as pleasingly narrative as Livin’ Large? We certainly haven’t read it, so we can’t say, but concerning the film alone reviews seem to be positive. Susan G. Cole at NOW gives it a nice review, though she does ask us to particularly “watch what she [Meryl Streep] does with her right hand during a scene of sexual play with [Stanley] Tucci.”