Reviews of the Bosch

                Disney’s Tomorrowland may be the most hyped movie of the year that no one really knew what to expect. It’s not a sequel, remake, or reimagining, rather it’s an original sci-fi concept, a rarity in the modern summer blockbuster season.                 The plot for what little can be revealed without spoiling, concerns a teenage girl Casey Newton (Britt Robertson) a curious and imaginative almost-prodigy who discovers a strange pin that transports her to a utopian futuristic society every time she touches it. Finding out it’s a real place called Tomorrowland she sets out to find it with a younger girl from there, Athena (Raffey Cassidy). They also team up with a former child inventor Frank Walker (George Clooney) who has a connection to Athena and Tomorrowland from his own childhood in the 60’s and believes Casey may be able to save it. There is quite a ...

David Letterman went off the air last night after thirty-five years as a talk show host. And many may not realize it but it is an important shift in television history. From 1982-1993 he hosted the first incarnation of Late Night on NBC developed especially for him as a follow-up to Johnny Carson’s Tonight Show . Since 1993 he has hosted The Late Show on CBS. And yeah his show has been fairly generic as of late but still every so often boasted better writing, interviews, and jokes than the Jimmys for example. And his sense of humour was really terrific especially back in the day. It’s what got him a number of guest-hosting gigs on the Tonight Show before his own started and there his wise-cracking and self-deprecating style developed into something fairly unique. He also like Carson, took risks at his show pulling off various random stunts and comedy bits, idiosyncratic segments some getting him in trouble, like jokingly interrupting another NBC show in the middle of their broadcas...

If you’ve been on the internet long enough to read this, chances are you’ll have seen memes and comments and tumblr threads declaring that kids shows aren’t as good as they used to be. That the shows that aired when we were younger were smarter, funnier, and more fun. But nostalgia is a powerful thing that can dilute quality in favour of what was popular or just on TV at the time. And the internet thrives on nostalgia for classic cartoon shows that many look to as shaping their youth and being superior to what mindless kids have to put up with today. And there were plenty of great kids shows over the years. There are of course the classics from Warner Bros. and Hanna Barbera that made up the bulk of shows I legitimately enjoyed: Looney Tunes , Scooby-Doo , The Jetsons , and Flintstones . But the show’s most often used to exemplify the glory days of kids TV are usually from the 80s and 90s, many especially from the 80s bar the likes of Transformers , Ninja Turtles , and Real Ghostbus...

This is probably a movie most will see regardless of this review. Avengers: Age of Ultron is one of the most hyped films of the year and is bound to be a box office juggernaut. But does it live up to the hype?             Not quite, but lower your pitchforks that’s not to say it’s not a great movie (it’s just been hyped to the extreme). In this sequel, Earth’s mightiest heroes join forces again when Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) creates an artificial intelligence designed to save the human race. The result is a being known as Ultron (James Spader) who immediately causes this plan to backfire by deciding to exterminate humankind, calling for the Avengers to rally against him. Ultron possesses immense technological power and commands an army of robotic Iron suits making it very difficult for the Avengers to defeat him. The film hits a great balance in terms of its audience. Though many who see it will likely have seen at least a few Marvel films prior, t...

This is a flashback to a piece I wrote last year, when it was announced Power Laces were being developed:   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/11332252/Nikes-Back-to-the-Future-trainers-coming-soon.html  We're only six months away society! Hurry up dammit!        So Power Laces are gonna be a thing! And they’re gonna be a thing next year! That’s good of you Nike, great job but it may be a little late. The rest of the world is still frightfully behind.        In case you’re under the impression I have some kind of inside knowledge of the inner workings of the international footwear industry, you’d be right but that’s not important. What is important is that Nike is putting us one step (get it!) closer to the excellent world of the future depicted in Back to the Future Part II .  Robert Zemeckis’ 1989 sequel to the greatest time travel movie of all time saw Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel to the futuristic world of 201...

My god we’ve had a lot of movie trailers lately! In the past week and a bit we’ve gotten new trailers for Ant-Man , Terminator Genesis (I refuse to spell it their way, don’t let a dyslexic guy come up with your title Paramount!), Star Wars: The Force Awakens , Batman v. Superman , and Fantastic Four . We’ve had more trailers released than movies and you can be sure if they were compiled together for cinematic release, Movie Trailers: The Movie would do better at the box office than The Longest Ride . It feels too much and begs the question, are we being oversaturated with movie trailers? Yes. Yes we are. But aside from that, the responses to these trailers spark more interesting questions. Star Wars: The Force Awakens was met with almost universal acclaim, Terminator Genesis was met with almost universal derision, and the rest I mentioned were equally met with love and hate for debate by internet commenters without anything better to do. Why is there so much reaction and opinion...

“Hillary Clinton’s running for President!” “Yes we know, what else is new?” “No it’s official now!” “Oh…okay.” That’s pretty much the universal reaction to the news that Hillary Clinton has thrown her hat into the ring. Putting aside the fact this was the worst kept secret in Washington, she intends to run for President a year from now. She announced it with a video that pretty much panders to the left wing in a fairly obvious way. It starts with a lot of different people from all walks of life looking forward to new changes in their lives and then Hillary shows up announcing her candidacy and that she wants to be the people’s champion to move America forward. The ad features people from at least three racial minorities, a gay and lesbian couple, an expectant couple, a young single mother, a woman on the verge of retiring, parents and children, siblings, hammering home the idea that she represents all Americans regardless of race, gender, sexuality, or social status. There’s a...

Last Wednesday there was a massive oil spill into English Bay in Vancouver. Naturally this has made a lot of environmentalists angry, a lot of oil barons angry, and a select few in the West Coast fisheries industry strangely turned on. You may recall BC Premier Christie Clark criticized the federal government for the delay in containing the oil and cleaning up the spill. She thinks the responsibility should pass to the provincial government rather than the federally controlled Coast Guard, the members of which were presumably locked in an intense game of Battleship at the time of the spill. It took six hours to quell the leak during which time the spill got worse and twelve hours to notify the city –assuming incorrectly that those on the Vancouver Bayfront would look out their windows every hour or so. This annoyed Clark as well as the mayor of Vancouver who pointed fingers at both her and the federal government. Nevertheless by the weekend most of the oil was cleaned and Clark’s co...