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Monthly Archives: June 2014

How to Train Your Dragon 2

24 Tuesday Jun 2014

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by Grace Crawford

Images courtesy of DreamWorks Animaton and 20th Century Fox.

Images courtesy of DreamWorks Animaton and 20th Century Fox.

WARNING: There be spoilers ahead.

So here is something you probably guessed about me over the last year and a half since we started doing these reviews: I have a teeny-tiny obsession with dragons. That’s partly why I love The Chronicles of Narnia, the Harry Potter books, and even Game of Thrones so much. It’s a bit ridiculous how much I love them, really, because there’s actually a small part of me that honestly believes they’re alive out there in the world right now (don’t judge; if you were as awesome as me, you’d believe it, too).

I loved How to Train Your Dragon. It was everything I ever wanted out of a movie and never knew I needed, which was why I saw it in theatres seven or eight times. It was harsh, daring, heartbreaking, mesmerizing, sobering, exhilarating. It’s in my top three movies, right up there with Tangled and Frozen. (And no, I don’t mean my favourite animated movies; I mean my favourite movies ever. Yeah. I’m that kind of person.)

And that’s why I got so ridiculously excited the first time I saw this.

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GR Dailies: Game of Thrones – The Children

20 Friday Jun 2014

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by Grace Crawford

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All Game of Thrones images courtesy of HBO.

4×10: “The Children

WARNING: SEASON 5 SPOILERS AHEAD

So here we are: the season four finale of Game of Thrones. I was both looking forward to and dreading this, because hooray for Arya- and Tyrion-related things but boo for waiting-a-year-for-the-next-installment-related things.

After the  events of last week’s episode, Jon heads north of the Wall to sit down for a parlay with Mance Rayder (even though nobody told him to). That’s when he finds out that the situation is hopeless, that they were just being toyed with in that battle where they lost like half their guys, and that the Wall will be overrun by nightfall. Well, sh*t.

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Edge of Tomorrow

14 Saturday Jun 2014

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Action, Sci-Fi, Time Travel, Tom Cruise

Sometimes shooting yourself in the head really is the best choice

by Thom Yee

Images courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

Images courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

We all know it’s impossible to talk about a Tom Cruise movie like Edge of Tomorrow without talking about Tom Cruise.

A working actor for more than three decades whose box office earnings have reached a combined, unadjusted total of more than three billion dollars, Tom Cruise is a true movie star, consistently able to draw crowds, whether it’s to his movies or to witness his oft-bizarre behaviour, much of which seems attributed to his beliefs as a Scientologist. The star of some of the biggest movies in modern history and an enduring fixture in blockbuster American cinema, Cruise has been attached to several Hollywood starlets, including marriages to Mimi Rogers, Nicole Kidman and Katie Holmes, and that’s about as much as I’m going to write about Tom Cruise, because, like it or not, watching movies is supposed to be about watching movies.

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GR Dailies: Game of Thrones – The Watchers on the Wall

09 Monday Jun 2014

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by Grace Crawford

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4×09: “The Watchers on the Wall”

For an entire episode, we followed one single storyline: the battle between the Night’s Watch and the wildlings. It was the story of Samwell Tarly and of Jon Snow, and it was everything I possibly could have hoped for.

There’s tension on top of the wall as the crows wait for the wildlings to descend. But Sam’s distracted, because his thoughts are on Gilly and all the things he would’ve liked to do with her (and to her, and on her, etc.). And knowing full well he won’t get the chance, he asks Jon what sex is like.

Jon tries to go into detail, and he does very well by saying, “it’s like being wrapped up inside someone and they’re wrapped up in you,” before getting all flustered, because boys and feelings apparently aren’t a good mix (as any high school girl could tell you), so Sam’s left to his own thoughts.

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

07 Saturday Jun 2014

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by Grace Crawford

All images courtesy of Carolco Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment, Pacific Western, StudioCanal, and TriStar Pictures.

All images courtesy of Carolco Pictures, Lightstorm Entertainment, Pacific Western, StudioCanal, and TriStar Pictures.

For a long time now, Terminator 2: Judgment Day has been on my list of movies to watch. I kept hearing comments like, “It’s even better than the first one!” So given how much I liked the first one, I was pretty sure I would enjoy this one even more. And yet when I sat down to watch T2 for the first time, something that might seem insignificant, but in fact is a symptom of a larger problem, bothered me right off the bat. But I’ll get to that.

Ten years after the events of The Terminator, Sarah Connor has been institutionalized for her stories of time-travelling robots, and her son John Connor is in foster care. The self aware-computer Skynet has sent another Terminator back in time, this time to kill John, and the future version of John has sent back another protector to save himself. But it’s different this time, because Skynet’s Terminator is a T-1000, an advanced shape-shifting model, and John’s protector is a reprogrammed T-800—the same kind that tried to kill Sarah the first time around.

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GR Dailies: Game of Thrones – The Mountain and the Viper

03 Tuesday Jun 2014

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by Grace Crawford

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All Game of Thrones images courtesy of HBO.

4×08: “The Mountain and the Viper”

Welcome back after the (well after) mid-season break! This week’s episode started out with the wildlings sacking Mole’s Town. And when the blood started dripping through the floorboards, that’s when I knew this was gonna be a bloody episode.

The attack on Mole’s Town is a big deal since it’s just a stone’s throw from Castle Black, reminding us yet again that a wildling force 100,000 strong is advancing on the Wall. (Like we needed reminding.) A major battle is coming, and I have a feeling that that’s going to be the main focus of the next couple of episodes (or the season finale at the very least).

But it’s also a big deal because Gilly was there in Mole’s Town with her son. And when the baby started crying, Ygritte found them — and spared them. And that seems strange to me, given what we know of her. She’s cold and hard, and she was like that even before Jon left her, although of course him leaving made her way worse. So why would she spare Gilly and Sam?

I have two theories on that. One, she recognized a fellow wildling — I’m sure she’d been Craster’s way before — and didn’t want to kill one of her own kind. Or two, even though she’s seething with anger at Jon and the rest of the crows, she has enough compassion inside her to save a young mother and her infant son. Either way, Ygritte has some standards, and I really like that about her. (Also, she axes people real good.)

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