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Monthly Archives: February 2016

The Walking Dead – Knots Untie recap

29 Monday Feb 2016

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The Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC

6×11: “Knots Untie”

Whaaat happened to all my favourite characters?

Why did we spend so much time with Morgan early in the season for him to just disappear now?

What is Carol doing? She’s the first one you send out if people might need to be killed!

Does Aaron even have a job in Alexandria anymore?

Well, at least I haven’t seen Tara in a while.

“Knots Untie” gave me a lot of bad feelings, and if you’ve been paying any attention at all during the course of this series, or really any serialized dramatic fiction, you should have some pretty bad feelings too.

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The Revenant review

27 Saturday Feb 2016

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Dicaprio, Drama, History, Oscar, Thriller

Yeah, well, things are bad everywhere

by Thom Yee

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The Revenant images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

There’s a breed of movie, let’s call it an “Oscar movie”, that we all know, that we’re all aware of, and that many of us may even have an opinion on, but that few of us have actually seen. The joke of the Oscars, and it’s a joke that will continue to endure far past the recent James Franco/Anne Hathaway, “We Saw Your Boobs”, #OscarsSoWhite controversies, is that nobody sees these movies. I mean, who’s seen Room? Or Brooklyn? Or Spotlight? Actually, I’ve seen every Best-Picture-nominated movie this year other than Bridge of Spies (because it looked boring), but the argument still stands amongst most people. But who are “most people”? Is “most people” supposed to represent me? And how many movies do “most people” see every year anyway? According to 2014 statistics from the Motion Picture Association of America, “most people” see fewer than six movies a year. If nothing else, purely by number of movies seen it’s pretty bad odds that “most people” will have seen any or all of the Oscar nominees, even this year when two of them (The Martian and Mad Max: Fury Road) were pretty big, pretty mainstream hits. And that’s not even considering other variables like taste, preference, or availability, and it leaves out that, regardless of what movies people do or don’t want to see, “most people”… well, they suck. Don’t get me started on “most people”. Continue reading →

Legends of Tomorrow – Star City 2046 recap

26 Friday Feb 2016

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Legends of Tomorrow images courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution

1×06: “Star City 2046”

Time Travelling to a ruined future to find the Connor Hawke version of Green Arrow and a one-armed Oliver Queen should be one of those squee-level moments that comicbook nerds like me fear we’ll never get to see in our lifetimes. It’s just too bad for Legends of Tomorrow that The Flash did their alterna-verse story on Earth-2 better only two weeks earlier.

Having survived Chronos’ surprise attack on the Waverider, our heroes find themselves unexpectedly thrown forward in time to Star City in the year 2046 where the city is in ruins, gangs rule the streets, law enforcement is extinguished, Oliver Queen has been missing for years, and a new Green Arrow struggles to defend the city. Continue reading →

February 26th Weekend Predictions & Predilections

26 Friday Feb 2016

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Opening this Weekend

Gods of Egypt

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The Walking Dead – The Next World recap

22 Monday Feb 2016

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6×10: “The Next World”

There’s a version of The Walking Dead, once posited by creator Robert Kirkman well before it was a TV show, that would have seen the series conclude with Carl being the last survivor of our group.  And in a way, that makes a lot of sense and provides a surprisingly satisfying catharsis in a series where Rick has pretty much always been the lead.  The passing of the torch, the student becomes the master, the son becomes the father and like that, so it’s also sensible that Carl would be the ultimate untouchable character in the show if only because of what he represents. And then he gets shot right in the eye.  Continue reading →

Deadpool review

20 Saturday Feb 2016

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So DMX’s entire rap career really was a joke

by Thom Yee

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Deadpool images courtesy of 20th Century Fox

For most of their published lives in North America, comicbooks have been seen as a medium primarily for kids, but for the last 15-20 years, the truth is that comicbooks haven’t really been for anyone. At first, comicbooks were mostly bought for children, tossed around and then thrown away, but after the Marvel explosion of the ‘60s, they expanded their reach to a wider audience, affected and were affected by the [counter] cultures of the times, and would even become collector’s items as the writers and artists that created them wrote stories of increasing sophistication. That trend towards sophistication kept going, however, as the stories became more realistic, more grim and gritty as they stopped being written for kids, and in doing so they lost their chance to pick up a generation of young new readers, and today it’s pretty much just the freaks that have continued to read comicbooks into their adulthoods (like me) that still buy them.

Or maybe everyone’s just been waiting for the movie. Continue reading →

Legends of Tomorrow – Fail-Safe recap

19 Friday Feb 2016

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1×05: “Fail-Safe”

I so called that Prison Break joke.

With this week’s “Fail-Safe” we continue with the second part of our heroes’ trip to ‘80s-era Soviet Russia, but unlike last week, we start off with a slightly clearer goal than usual: break our friends out of prison. With all of Professor Stein, Ray, and Heatwave caught behind the iron curtain, it’s up to Cold and Sara to bust them out before the Ruskies can break Stein and force him to reveal the secrets that will lead to an army of Soviet Firestorms. But Sara has a secret mission of her own, charged by Rip to kill Stein should his retrieval prove untenable. That all sounds exciting, but… it kind of wasn’t. Continue reading →

February 19th Weekend Predictions & Predilections

19 Friday Feb 2016

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Opening this Weekend

The Witch

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