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Monthly Archives: January 2019

Glass review

26 Saturday Jan 2019

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Drama, Shyamalan, superhero, Unbreakable

Glass?  Who gives a sh*t about glass?!?

by Thom Yee

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Glass images courtesy of Universal Pictures

I don’t think there’s a movie director working today who’s as openly criticized as M. Night Shyamalan.  Mmmaybe George Lucas.  But he only counts if you consider his last few projects actual movies.  Most people don’t.  Shyamalan, on the other hand, has continued to produce a wide ranging body of work ever since he made his big debut with The Sixth Sense back in 1999, and, like another product of the ‘90s, The Simpsons, by now most people look back at what Shyamalan’s done and see that, despite a very strong, groundbreaking, world-defining start, there’s probably been more good than bad that’s come from the man overall. Continue reading →

January 25th Weekend Predictions & Predilections

25 Friday Jan 2019

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Opening this Weekend

The Kid Who Would Be King

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse review

19 Saturday Jan 2019

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

Miles Morales > Tom Holland > Andrew Garfield > Tobey Maguire

by Thom Yee

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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse images courtesy of Sony Pictures Releasing

The theory of the multiverse suggests that there exists different universes parallel to our own. In at least one interpretation of the theory, the number of parallels continues to stretch out and grow into infinity. That means that there’s a universe where you, the reader of this purported review, and I, the writer of it, have not only met, but I may even have killed you in that universe (in fact, I probably would have killed you in most of them if we’re being honest; it’s just a personal flaw I have, a hair-trigger temper matched with a dedication to violence that I’m sure would transcend most universal barriers). But, with the concept of infinite parallel universes in mind, there are probably a lot of worlds in which I may have saved you from death as well (probably not the other way around, though; again, a lack of being saved is something I feel is probably close to a universal constant given my innate resistance to receiving help). And then, extrapolating with infinity in mind even further, all of that saving I could be doing in all of those other worlds could be with the aid of superpowers. I might have been bitten by a radioactive spider and not died from radiation poisoning [or my fear of spiders] but instead gained the proportionate strength(s) of a spider in one. Or I might share a telepathic link with a radioactive spider with whom I co-pilot a bio-mechanical spider suit in another. Or I might even be some sort of totemic spider spirit who imbues my chosen champions with the greatest virtues of the spider in another still. Or maybe you are instead. Or something. Or something else. Or something else still. Ad infinitum.

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January 18th Weekend Predictions & Predilections

18 Friday Jan 2019

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Opening this Weekend

Glass

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GOO Reviews’ 2018 Year in Review

12 Saturday Jan 2019

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2018, Retrospective, Year-End

2018 was not a good year.  For the world.  So another bad year then.  Again.goo-reviews-2017-one

2018 is the year that James Gunn got fired for all the wrong reasons.  2018 is the year that Daredevil got cancelled.  It’s the year that the Saga comicbook went on hiatus, that the Tide Pod Challenge got into gear, that Kanye kept saying things, that normal people learned who Logan Paul is.  2018 is the year that Anthony Bourdain died.  2018 is the year that Aretha Franklin died.  2018 is the year that f*cking Stan Lee died.  2018 is another year where Trump remained in office, which, in some very literal cases, meant that some people died that under normal circumstances, probably wouldn’t have (to say nothing of ‘shouldn’t have’), and while none of us want this blog about movies from an Edmonton perspective to get political, it’s impossible to ignore that a world with Donald Trump as President of the United States is the kind of thing that leaves none of us untouched, and as long as it stays this way there are going to be a lot of things that will keep going wrong in the worst, most evil and selfish and thoughtless and yet stupidest and laziest ways possible.  And for us here at GOO Reviews, that meant 2018 was a year that kind of got away from us in terms of reviews coverage.  For that we apologize, though it’s an apology accompanied with no guarantee that things, on that front, will get better. Continue reading →

January 11th Weekend Predictions & Predilections

11 Friday Jan 2019

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Opening this Weekend

A Dog’s Way Home

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January 4th Weekend Predictions & Predilections

04 Friday Jan 2019

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Opening this Weekend

Escape Room

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