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The Big Game of Thrones Moment That Could Make Things Even Worse
Ramsay Bolton (HBO) It is worth repeating: Game of Thrones is in love with shock value. There is no greater example of shock tactics, regardless of…
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How Game of Thrones Has Failed Its Most Feminist Storyline
Something is rotten in the state of Dorne. In an episode that has already courted a great deal of controversy with the way it chose to…
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19 New Movies to Watch at Home on Blu-ray/DVD This Week
Welcome back to This Week In Discs! If you see something you like, click on the title to buy it from Amazon. The Blue Room Julien (Mathieu Amalric)…
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Game of Thrones Explained: What We’ve Learned About The Cost of Power
HBO “I think last night’s episode was my least favorite Game of Thrones episode ever.” This is the text I received earlier today, from my roommate…
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35 Things We Learned From John Boorman’s Zardoz Commentary
I’m not the first person to say this, but 1974’s Zardoz is one strange goddamn movie. Writer/director John Boorman’s follow-up to Deliverance is an odd,…
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12 Movies to Watch After You See Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller’s Mad Max franchise has been a huge influence on movies released in the 36 years since the first installment’s release. Now that he’s…
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The 5 Best Book Characters That Game of Thrones Has Left Out
HBO/Beautiful Death As we move further into the back-half of the run of HBO’s Game of Thrones, it has become clear that some characters from…
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This Was The Most Ominous Game of Thrones Episode Yet
HBO We don’t need a trip to see Maggy the Frog, unexpectedly attractive yet creepy fortune teller, to tell us that things are likely to…
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27 Things We Learned From George Miller’s The Road Warrior Commentary
“To kill an animal for a film is so wrong, because it’s just a film.”