Watching this movie 7 months after this review, I am struck by a disturbing trend in AV Club reviews, which is a basic ignorance of the movie's message. It is almost as if there is a limitation of thought, that the movie message can't even be imagined, which results in a review that is painfully limited in scope.…

Women are hilarious, which is why one should never take them seriously

yeah, this second half of the season didn't do a good job of cluing in audiences as to what exactly was going on. For example, the Jarl Borg thing makes perfect sense in terms of power politics—keep subordinates at each other's throats so they can't unite to attack you, plus you can keep more for yourself. Likewise,…

I think B was about to go on the offense when Lagertha barged in.

To be fair, they are headed west, which is risky. I imagine most of Horik's vassals plunder east across the Baltic, and Horik derives enough income from this not to dissuade them. Plus when you speculate on something, you want some investors…but not too many…

So King Horik unites Borg and Ragnar to go raiding, then makes Ragnar take the fall for dismissing Borg, so that Ragnar's raiding is cut short by Borg's revenge, and Horik gets all the loot. Well, it almost worked. What's disappointing is that Ragnar doesn't seem hip to it. Until the very end, I thought Borg's…

It's best to interpret Refn's films as allegories. Drive is about middle class white knighting white guys and their love of cars. And Only God Forgives is about Man Code vs. Mother Code.

Valhalla Rising is the prequel to Dead Man