“‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ Reveals The Biggest Problem With ‘Game Of Thrones'”

How do you say “Denzel Washington is the coolest” in Shakespearean? Continue reading →

“‘Gunpowder Milkshake’: You Can Have A ‘John Wick’-Style Milkshake As A Treat, But It’s Not Much Of A Coherent Movie”

I cannot think of two words less-suited to follow one after the other, and also I cannot think of a movie title that conveys “ass kicking” better than this. Continue reading →

“Here’s The True Story of Paige, The WWE Star In ‘Fighting With My Family'”

Paige, WWE Diva champion, made some history about eight years back in her main roster debut on WWE RAW. Now, Stephen Merchant has a film out about her. How does her story transition from ring to screen? Short version: Pretty well! Continue reading →

Review: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, 2016, dir. Burr Steers

“Your enjoyment of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies will hinge on whether you find the joke it and the novel from which Burr Steers adapted it funny. If yes, this movie is your jam. If no, it is your neurotoxin. Some movies are critic-proof for sheer incomprehensibility.” (Via Paste Magazine.)

TV Review: Game of Thrones, 2.9 & 2.10: Blackwater/Valar Morghulis

Game of Thrones’ second season came to a close last week. This week, I finally get around to talking about it. How did season two measure up to one? Where is it taking us? What did it do well, and what could have been done better? Also: the folly of kings. Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, 2.7 and 2.8: A Man Without Honor/The Prince of Winterfell

In this week’s recap of Game of Thrones: matters of honor, respectability, personal identity, and forward plot progression. Also, good, clean, healthy, romantic love. For once. Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, 2.5 & 2.6: The Ghost of Harrenhal/The Old Gods and the New

Doubling up again on the show’s second season installments, this week I ponder and analyze the events of the fifth and sixth episodes of S2– including the shocking reduction in overall nakedness, the repercussions of poorly-employed authority, and the inexperience of youth. Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, 2.3 & 2.4: What Is Dead May Never Die/Garden of Bones

How about that time when I wrote about how sex in Game of Thrones has consequences? If I didn’t convince you with my argument the first time around, no doubt the final scene in Garden of Bones did, though both the fourth and third episodes of the season both do nothing to undermine that running theme. Is that slowly … Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, 2.1: The North Remembers

(Note: I feel like tagging this with spoiler warnings is unnecessary, but just in case, this is going to be very spoiler heavy. If you haven’t finished S1, stay away.) Ready for more political maneuvering, martial strategy, medieval barbarism, societal division, and steadily burgeoning elements of high fantasy? What may be somewhat startling about the … Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, episodes 9 & 10

Well, I’ll say this for the marketing team behind Game of Thrones— they can’t be accused of false advertising. Baelor and Fire and Blood wrap up the first season of the series, and what a pair of episodes they are. I don’t think I need to warn anyone reading this of imminent spoilers, so with … Continue reading →

TV Review: Game of Thrones, Episodes 4-5

(In which I talk of Cripples, Bastards, and Broken Things and The Wolf and the Lion.) Well, things are picking up quite nicely in the enthralling political and social dramas unfolding in Westeros and the lands across the Narrow Sea, aren’t they? As I said in the last installment, Game of Thrones‘ first few episodes … Continue reading →