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March 11th Weekend Predictions & Predilections
11 Friday Mar 2016
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The Walking Dead – Not Tomorrow Yet recap
07 Monday Mar 2016
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by Thom Yee
The Walking Dead images courtesy of AMC
6×12: “Not Tomorrow Yet”
Ever since the “They’re screwing with the wrong people” moment back at Terminus from the end of season four, The Walking Dead has become less a show about Rick and co. surviving the zombie Walker apocalypse and more a show of kill or be killed. With this week’s “Not Tomorrow Yet”, our group has officially become death, destroyer of satellite compounds.
This week, the Saviors make their episode-length debut, and for the moment at least, there’s still not much for our heroes to be afraid of, the Saviors amounting to little more than cannon fodder. If anything, it’s Rick and co. themselves that announce themselves as the bad guys of the story when they decide to pre-emptively raid the Saviors’ base of operations. Continue reading
Legends of Tomorrow – Marooned recap
04 Friday Mar 2016
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by Thom Yee
Legends of Tomorrow images courtesy of Warner Bros. Television Distribution
1×07: “Marooned”
One thing I’ve really loved about Legends of Tomorrow that’s been in place since the beginning is the show’s opening sequence, with each of our heroes’ logos flying past before revealing the ‘Legends of Tomorrow’ title. Even though it’s a very quick, fleeting moment, for me, it really helps to give our heroes their own presence on a show that contributes to the iconic, legendary status each of them has from the comics. It’s a type of importance that they all need, especially with the way the show wound up playing with the ‘Legends’ moniker, which is good, especially because in an episode like “Marooned”…
IT’S A TRAP!
March 4th Weekend Predictions & Predilections
04 Friday Mar 2016
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The Walking Dead – Knots Untie recap
29 Monday Feb 2016
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by Thom Yee
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.
The Revenant review
27 Saturday Feb 2016
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Yeah, well, things are bad everywhere
by Thom Yee
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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by Thom Yee
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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