2018 was not a good year.  For the world.  So another bad year then.  Again.

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 →