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WatchI’ve never seen the stage musical, but I would really like to. The idea of a film adaptation initially seemed risky, based on other recent film adaptations of musicals (notably The Producers, but while I liked the film version of Sweeney Todd, it pales in comparison to the stage show), but this trailer actually has me pretty excited.
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Upcoming Game of Thrones Characters →
The A.V. Club reported on some of the upcoming characters to be introduced in Season 3 of Game of Thrones. While readers of the books will recognize all of the names, it is still interesting to see who is named, who isn’t, and who is named now. Brynden and Edmure Tully, the Reed siblings, and Stannis’ wife and daughter are all introduced by the end of the second novel, and I was...
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You Mean I Can Get PAID to Say Things Like This?
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For those of you who don’t know, Rifftrax is a series of downloadable commentary tracks to listen to while watching terrible (and sometimes not-so-terrible-but-still-kind-of-silly) movies. They are produced by three guys who were on Mystery Science Theater 3000. The Rifftrax for The Last Airbender was the only thing that kept me from Hulking out...
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Podcast: Mad Men 5x11, Game of Thrones 2x09 →
Julie Hammerle, Andy Daglas, and myself examine Mad Men’s “The Other Woman” and Game of Thrones’ “Blackwater.”
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derusaert asked: Enjoyed your review of Blackwater even though I really enjoyed the episode. I especially loved what you said about the Cersei/Tommen dynamic and Podrick Payne. I really disliked the development for Stannis and Melisandre throughout the season also. So I appreciated you discussing that a bit. Maybe because I've read the books it's difficult for me to separate the two and so ... I just...
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Game of Thrones Season 2, Episode 9: Blackwater
I may have said this before, but A Clash of Kings is my least favorite book in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. To me, the whole book serves as build-up to the Battle of the Blackwater and to A Storm of Swords (my favorite book in the series). Build-up is very important, because the pay-off is meaningless without it. (Obviously.) But when 700 pages are nothing but...
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Game of Thrones Review To Be Delayed
Due to Memorial Day plans, this week’s Game of Thrones review will most likely be delayed until tomorrow.
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Angel Comes To An End At The A.V. Club →
At long last, Noel Murray’s journey through the Buffyverse has come to an end. It’s been a great experience reading his thoughts on two of the greatest shows ever produced. It’s a bit sad that it’s over now, but I hear he’ll be doing Firefly next…
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Angel's Beginnings At The A.V. Club →
Today, Noel Murray’s coverage of Angel at The A.V. Club comes to an end. In anticipation for his review of “Power Play” and “Not Fade Away,” I am linking back to his first full review of an Angel episode, the Season 2 premiere “Judgment” and the second episode “Are You Now Or Have You Ever Been” (along with the first two episodes of...
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Tour de Ghibli Update →
I have now seen The Secret World of Arrietty in Japanese and have updated that entry with a comparison of the (American) English track and the Japanese track.
As I note in the section, I was expecting to like the Japanese track better, but I had no idea how much better it would actually be. I think that it affected my perception of the movie’s quality enough to bump Arrietty into my top...
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Mad Men 5x10, Game of Thrones 2x08 →
This week, Julie Hammerle, Andy Daglas, and myself discuss what is possibly my favorite episode of Mad Men ever then debate the merits of this week’s Game of Thrones.
We apologize for the technical difficulties.
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