Welcome to my weird world!
My roommate from Hong Kong showed me this film. And as someone who's been somewhat disappointed with other critically acclaimed animated features this year, like The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part and even Toy Story 4, I certainly now get why he was so excited to share this with me. I suspect we have... Continue Reading →
The documentary More Than a Word touches upon the football team known as the Washington Redskins, not for their playing history but their name's. “Redskin” is, simply defined, a term for an American Indian, but it’s not just a term; it’s a nickname, and “redskin” has been defined by numerous prestigious dictionaries as a contemptuous... Continue Reading →
A lot of you will probably assume I’m joking calling this critically acclaimed movie painful. So let me add a little more flavour to help you understand a few things about me; the only other Quentin Tarantino film I’ve seen is Inglourious Basterds, a movie I did enjoy, to put it out there. But also,... Continue Reading →
Eragon with phoenixes instead of dragons has arrived. And just like in Eragon, we enter into a world with no mythical creatures left. There were phoenixes once. And marvellous Phoenix Riders, who could telepathically communicate with their winged partners. The most famous include sisters Avalkyra and Pheronia Ashfire who long ago battled a throne to... Continue Reading →
Reality television. A genre I never got into, especially when the first one I was exposed to was in my Grade 9 Business class, and every time afterward, I'd wish with every fibre of my being I could smash something owned by one of the judges - I mean, dragons. If you skipped the title... Continue Reading →
For Remembrance Day, I thought it’d be suitable enough to do a review on the woman who deserves to be on America’s 20 dollar bill, and have about 20 other things (holidays, regions, law principles, statues) named after her in her honour. Every single hero in my home country, Canada, deserves their minute of silence... Continue Reading →
As Kaya Scodelario and Barry Pepper both starred in The Maze Runner movies, which is currently my favourite movie series of all time, having surpassed Harry Potter, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and even the How to Train Your Dragon movies, and seeing as this is a horror movie with Sam Raimi in the production, how could I ignore it?... Continue Reading →
I’ve been reading loads of fantasy and sci-fi lately, which is fine, but I tend to connect to contemporary novels surprisingly quite often. Despite that, there have been numerous contemporaries I’ve been very hesitant about. I guess I maybe expect another typical romance sprinkled with overstretched fears. But this one was a treat I needed,... Continue Reading →
Several decades ago, capitalism and the function of the world were obviously quite different. Yet the way a majority of people lived their lives wasn’t that different. People worked for a living, more often than not in difficult and soul-draining jobs, and similar circumstances in their personal lives. The same goes for today. Yet in... Continue Reading →
Fun fact: Back in early 2015, in a universe that feels so forgotten in this apocalyptic day and age, I had the privilege of visiting San Francisco. And my family and I were staying at a Fairmont the night a scene from Terminator Genisys was being filmed in the hotel basement. I to this day... Continue Reading →
William J. McGinn 