Yearly Archives: 2015

The Walking Dead – Heads Up

23 Monday Nov 2015

Posted by in Television

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, ,

by Thom Yee

The Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC.

The Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC.

6×07: “Heads Up”

Between the Jon Snow Game of Thrones season six poster that debuted today and last night’s Walking Dead episode, what is this, the season of people not being dead? I mean, who else is gonna turn out to not be dead, Ned Stark? Derek Shepherd? Omar from The Wire?

So hands up, who’s surprised Glenn’s not dead? No one? No hands up? That’s what I thought. We were all hit pretty hard by Glenn’s seeming demise towards the end of “Thank You”, the third episode of this season, though there was a fair amount of skepticism about his death even back then, but the way not knowing what happened to Glenn has been strung out over the last four weeks made it increasingly clear to most of us that he wasn’t dead. Continue reading →

Back to the Future Part III

21 Saturday Nov 2015

Posted by in Films

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, ,

If you don’t enjoy this movie, you’re not thinking fourth-dimensionally

by Thom Yee

Back to the Future Part III images courtesy of Universal Pictures.

Back to the Future Part III images courtesy of Universal Pictures.

There’s always been a strong argument against a Back to the Future sequel, and it’s an argument that still stands even now, twenty-five years after two sequels came out and both turned out to be at least okay. Beyond its obvious strengths, the original Back to the Future is simply a neat, tidy, and self-contained story, one that, because of its time-travel premise, rewards multiple viewings but also one that, because of its time-travel premise, begins to unravel the more you add to it with further installments. And for those of you who’ve always wondered (or have always misremembered), no, in its original showings it did not end with the famous “To Be Continued…>” title card.

Continue reading →

The Walking Dead – Always Accountable

16 Monday Nov 2015

Posted by in Television

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, ,

by Thom Yee

The Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC.

The Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC.

6×06: “Always Accountable”

It may have taken a full five seasons, but it was last season’s final episode that finally sold me on The Walking Dead as a television series. It was the sudden appearance of Morgan, saving Daryl and Aaron with a serenity and a respect for life and humanity, that finally convinced me that the show was, at least this one time, capable of selling some of the higher-minded thematic ideals it’s been trying (and too often failing) to play with throughout its run. And yes, I’m starting this recap talking about a character that doesn’t even appear in the episode.

Continue reading →

Spectre

14 Saturday Nov 2015

Posted by in Films

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, ,

If you take a life, do you know what you’ll give?

by Thom Yee

Spectre images courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Columbia Pictures.

Spectre images courtesy of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Columbia Pictures.

When we first set out on building GOO Reviews, Skyfall was the first new review we wrote after the first batch of ten template reviews we’d initially mocked up to work out the kinks of our reviewing process. It’s been a long time since that cold November night back in 2012 when we first saw Skyfall, and now, even though it’s been three years of learning and growing as movie reviewers for us, I still can’t get over how good the opening to my Skyfall review was. The rest of my review sucked though, and right now my thoughts about that long-ago review mirror my feelings about Spectre, the latest Bond movie.

At the moment, it’s hard not to be a little down on the whole Bond franchise with ongoing speculation around a new Bond and talk of how badly current star Daniel Craig wants out. Continue reading →

The Walking Dead – Now

09 Monday Nov 2015

Posted by in Television

≈ Leave a comment

Tags

, ,

by Thom Yee

The Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC.

The Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC.

6×05: “Now”

Party’s over, everyone.  We now return to your regularly scheduled The Walking Dead.

I don’t think anybody could reasonably expect the type of pacing we’ve seen since the beginning of this season to continue indefinitely, and it was more than reasonable to expect a breather episode sometime around now, but all of the forward momentum we’d gained from the first three episodes of season six really just ground to a full-stop hault in “Now”, and it’s that comparative storytelling inertia that made it hard to care or latch on to any of the stories being told this week. Continue reading →