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Monthly Archives: May 2013

Simul-Review: Star Trek Into Darkness

31 Friday May 2013

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Action, Aliens, J.J. Abrams, Sci-Fi, Space, Star Trek

by Grace Crawford and Thom Yee

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All images courtesy of Paramount Pictures, Bad Robot Productions, K/O Paper Products, Skydance Productions.

Grace: I try not to remember a lot about my childhood—not for any emotionally crippling reasons, but because I had short hair and John Lennon glasses and small children would ask me if I was a boy or a girl—but there are a few things that stick out to me. A tree in my backyard. A pink-and-blue plastic play kitchen. Reading books by a nightlight long after I was supposed to be asleep. And just a ridiculous amount of Star Trek.

My stepfather was a big fan, my mother supported him, and my brother got into it with such enthusiasm that he had doodles of the Enterprise all over his school binders. All of this meant that I, the odd one out—my sister was too young to notice or care what we watched—had to sit through endless hours of Star Trek or spend the evening staring at the walls in my room. Which were white. And boring. So I picked the option that at least had colour.

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Star Trek (2009)

24 Friday May 2013

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Action, Aliens, J.J. Abrams, Sci-Fi, Space, Star Trek, Time Travel

by Thom Yee

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Star Trek images courtesy of Paramount Pictures

We hit a bit of a snag this week, so while this may not be THE Star Trek review we’d planned to post today, it is at least A Star Trek review.

J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek is my second favourite movie of all time and is constantly vying for first place. I say that as somebody who grew up neither a Trekkie nor Trekker, without much thought towards Star Trek vs. Star Wars, and with no real opinion of Kirk or Picard. Unlike generations of fans who grew up on the show and became engineers because of Scotty, cold, logical scientists because of Spock, or fan fiction writers because they’re losers, I watched some Star Trek (but only a bit) simply because it wasn’t usually bad and my dad watched it. But — through The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, and whatever else followed — I never really liked any of it. Before the summer of 2009, when I thought about Star Trek in general, I mostly thought of cramped, sparsely decorated sets, boring protocol, and older men using strained metaphors, talking about prime directives and like that.

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Hawkeye (issues 1-6)

17 Friday May 2013

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by Thom Yee

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Hawkeye images courtesy of Marvel Worldwide, Inc. and Walt Disney Studios

In a world full of superstrong, invulnerable, flying people who can knock you unconscious with a flick of their fingers or vaporize you just by looking in your direction, the regular-guy (and girl) superheroes have it pretty tough. The ones who survive in this kind of world often have some combination of Olympic-level athleticism, intensive combat training, high-tech gadgets, and massive financial resources to bring to bear. They’re driven by tragic events from their childhood; they have an unshakeable resolve in their war on crime; they’ve trained for most of their lives to at least be the hero their city deserves (if not the hero it needs). Through hard work, constant vigilance, and fanatical determination, they stand at the peak of human potential, because in a superhuman world, they need to be the best of the best.

Then there’s Hawkeye.  When power-mad gods leading intergalactic armies threaten the Earth… he brings a bow and arrow.

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Simul-Review: Iron Man 3

10 Friday May 2013

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Action, Comics Marvel, MCU, superhero

by Thom Yee and Grace Crawford

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Iron Man 3 images courtesy of Walt Disney Studios

Thom:  When it came time to review Iron Man 3, I thought I’d start out with a bunch of antithetical statements:

  • Iron Man 2 was just as good as the first one.
  • The Incredible Hulk was really good.
  • The Avengers could’ve been better.
  • Thor is the best Marvel Studios movie so far.

Now of course, those are just my opinions (and no, I’m not just a contrarian [or at least I’m trying not to be]), but that’s the way I’ve felt about the Marvel Studios movies so far.  I still remember the summer of 2008 when they first started and being the only one who was more impressed with The Incredible Hulk than Iron Man (remember, Iron Man came out in May of that year, followed by The Incredible Hulk just over a month later).

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Mad Men (Seasons 1-3)

03 Friday May 2013

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by Grace Crawford

All images courtesy of AMC Television and Weiner Bros., Silvercup Studios, and Lionsgate Television.

So first order of business. I just finished my third year of university (yay me) and my fourth is my practicum. This was my first week at an ad agency (also yay me), and in honour of that I thought I would do a Mad Men review, because I was silly enough to think that watching Mad Men would be adequate research for the fast-paced world of advertising. Pro tip: it’s really not.

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