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Monthly Archives: April 2013

Simul-Review: Silver Linings Playbook

26 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by Thom Yee in Films, Simul-Review

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by Thom Yee and Grace Crawford

Silver Linings Playbook poster

Silver Linings Playbook images courtesy of The Weinstein Company

Thom: Mental illness is a serious and pervasive issue in today’s society and it behooves us all to take it seriously and to treat those who suffer from these maladies with respect.

Or so I’m told. As far as I can tell, mental illness has had no appreciable impact on any significant element of my life. No appreciable impact that is, except for almost every customer that walks into the A/V shop I work at once a week, mostly for the discount. For those that don’t know, I work and live in downtown Edmonton, and it seems like at least every other customer who walks into my store suffers from some chemical imbalance, whether it’s the old lady hermit who’s constantly buying different TV antennas and can’t stop complaining about having to pay so much to Shaw when she only wants to watch CBC, the guy who works at the nearby car wash who’s always asking to use the phone before buying another DVD player only to return it three days later, or the self-proclaimed “audiophile” who swears he can tell the difference between the cheap and expensive speaker wire (and as a commissioned salesperson, thank God for that guy).

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Game of Thrones (Season 1)

19 Friday Apr 2013

Posted by ghcrawford in Television

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by Grace Crawford

All images courtesy of HBO.

All images courtesy of HBO.

So apparently season 3 of Game of Thrones has started up again. Which is cool, I guess, except I only got partway through season 2 before I got slammed with school and had to stop, and I don’t remember anything that happened in A Storm of Swords except for the Red Wedding, and if you don’t know what that is I won’t spoil it for you (although seriously. The Red Wedding, you guys). I’m partway through A Dance with Dragons, though, which is shaping up to be a pretty solid book, so I figured I’d take a crack at the TV show that’s at least partly to blame for the deluge of medieval fantasy that’s flooded into the entertainment world.

I love fantasy; I always have. I began with Narnia, moved on to Hogwarts and Middle Earth, and am now quite happily ensconced in the Seven Kingdoms. Fantasy always has magic, which I love, and often has a medieval setting, which I also love. But what I don’t like is a world that’s meant to be medieval but just comes across as vaguely so. Continue reading →

G.I. Joe: Retaliation

12 Friday Apr 2013

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by Thom Yee

G.I. Joe - Retaliation Poster

G.I. Joe: Retaliation images courtesy of Paramount Pictures and MGM

Overall, Scrubs was a pretty good, possibly great show.

It was the kind of show that a lot of young adults needed in the ’00s because it felt real as it explored its young protagonists’ fanciful psychoses.

Even though it was uneven and occasionally a little too up its own ass, it had a lot of strong character arcs and emotionally raw moments.

To me and a lot of Scrubs fans, a truly standout performance was Brendan Fraser as Ben, one of the few people that Dr. Cox (the acerbic doctor of internal medicine at Sacred Heart Hospital) actually liked.

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Sound City

05 Friday Apr 2013

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by Thom Yee

Sound City

Sound City images courtesy of Variance Films, Roswell Films, and Gravitas Ventures

Nostalgia is a hell of a thing.  It circles our minds, advises us on the seemingly wisest course of action, and occupies our thoughts as we pretend to transcend into the future.  It even drives large parts of our economy.

Nostalgia is all around us, everywhere.  We can deny its presence as we produce our important works in a vain attempt to do something new, but it’s always there for one simple reason:  we all want a do-over.  It’s the reason why we ask ourselves what we would do if we could go back — to a simpler time, to a happier time, to a more hopeful time where anything was possible.  And for a lot of us, the main thing we would do if we could go back is our damndest to stay there and not have to move forward.

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