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Monthly Archives: July 2017

Dunkirk review

29 Saturday Jul 2017

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Nolan, War

You should probably just go

by Thom Yee

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Dunkirk images courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures

I’m not sure war is something I feel comfortable talking about, not even here, in written form, through the lens of reviewing a movie about war.  Not completely comfortable with anyways.  We haven’t reviewed many war movies in the 5 years we’ve been doing GOO Reviews, and up until now I’m not even sure I’ve ever really watched a war movie all the way through.  At least not ones that didn’t also have the words ‘Star’, ‘Inglourious’, or ‘The First Avenger’ in their titles.  I have a feeling those ones don’t really count.

As a millennial, war isn’t one of those things I’ve ever had to seriously consider as a component of life, not in the enlistment or conscription sense at any rate, and my most vivid memories of the topic of war are reviewing the numbers of dead due to wars in textbooks for the purposes of passing tests.  Continue reading →

July 28th Weekend Predictions & Predilections

28 Friday Jul 2017

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Atomic Blonde

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July 21st Weekend Predictions & Predilections

21 Friday Jul 2017

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Dunkirk

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Spider-Man: Homecoming review

15 Saturday Jul 2017

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Action, Comedy, comics, Marvel, MCU, Spider-Man, superhero

Tom Holland > Andrew Garfield > Tobey Maguire

by Thom Yee

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Spider-Man: Homecoming images courtesy of Sony Pictures

How do you feel about Spider-Man?  And I don’t mean “Spider-Man”, the series of movies that’s already gone through three reboots in less than 15 years because Sony, who bought the movie rights to the character from Marvel in 1999, has to rush a Spider-Man movie into production every few years or else the movie rights revert back to Marvel Studios, I mean the character — Spider-Man.  If you listened to J. Jonah Jameson, publisher/editor of New York’s most infamous newspaper, The Daily Bugle, you might think he’s a public menace.  If you were familiar with the comicbook lore, you’d most likely find him to be a misunderstood but friendly, neighbourhood hero, driven by guilt over the death of his uncle to responsibly use his powers for good.  But whenever I hear anyone talk about Spider-Man in real life?  They usually say they don’t like him.  I’ve never really liked him that much either.  And I think it’s all Tobey Maguire’s fault. Continue reading →

July 14th Weekend Predictions & Predilections

14 Friday Jul 2017

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War for the Planet of the Apes

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Baby Driver review

08 Saturday Jul 2017

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Action, cars, Comedy, Edgar Wright

And it’s a half past four and I’m shiftin’ gear

by Thom Yee

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Baby Driver images courtesy of TriStar Pictures

So I drive stick.  I know it’s not a big deal and that it doesn’t really prove anything about me as a person, I know that paddle shifters are actually faster at shifting, and I know that, year over year, there are only going to be fewer cars with manual transmissions as an option, but still, there’s something about driving a stick that separates people like me from… well, from most of you.  Something important.  Call it a greater connection between man (or woman) and machine, call it the need for precision driving, call it a weird, overblown fixation that only the kinds of people you’d rather avoid in conversations would have, but there is a difference between driving a car and choosing when to shift and driving a car that automatically shifts for you (often at questionable times that never let you feel your car’s real power).  It’s not quite the difference between men and boys that motor (or “petrol”) heads would have you believe, but it is a point of distinction.  And if we’re being totally honest?  I’m usually just a little bit more attracted to a girl who drives stick. Continue reading →

July 7th Weekend Predictions & Predilections

07 Friday Jul 2017

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Spider-Man:  Homecoming

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