This review has definitely inspired me to revisit it and the leads are all well suited to the material and director. But I was really disappointed first time round, and most of the hardcore cyberpunk community don't recognize it as being cyberpunk or in the spirit of Gibson's story at all. You haven't heard of it…

As a Gibson fan, and a massive Ferrara fan, I found this one disappointing on first viewing, especially considering how the three leads seem perfect to work with him. But your points about the hotel rooms and screens being very much hyper-real have convinced me to watch again.

I watched Iron man 3 in the theater in Shanghai. When the insert scenes happened, especially the main one with the milk, the entire theater groaned, shouted and mocked it. An TV edit level of cuts still happen to new movies, but the cinema here doesn't have any ratings/age system so all movies have to be PG sort of.

I've lived in Shanghai on and off for over ten years and still the only place here to get this correct to the HK standard is a Cantonese Restaurant with a boss from Hong Kong.

The show has been great. These reviews on the other hand, have been the frustrating part. I guess I've been hate-reading them, which is my own fault. I guess there's a certain rush or compelling element to witnessing breathtaking hubris and the mess it leaves behind. And that's the most telling thing, because these…

I totally understand all the points on both sides of the discussion on the scene and find them all valid. However, two things are certainly invalid. Comparison to how the books are written: re-read the character of Pia in Harrenhal, and also the scene that inspired this in the books has Ramsay forcing Reek to get…

I know it's probably budget related but I really appreciate scenes where we visit a place in the GoT world and it looks awesome (in the traditional meaning of the word) and we linger on that and take it in. I loved Arya's trip through Braavos ending up at the front door of the Temple. I loved the S01 shot of John and…

So the episode is an "aggravating slog" … B-

There is no tonal shift or failing in this episode at all. These reviews have been suffering from the start from trying to make breathless subjective judgments before seeing the whole.

You could replace 'on Arrow' with 'in superhero comics.' That's what I love about this show … it's a show and it feels like hero comics, as well as nailing the action. If we judge art based on if it achieves what it sets out to do, then this aces it.

I'm glad Garland said he thought of The Beach as critical. I agree with the idea that meaning is part controlled by the reader, but just putting that aside for a moment. When I read it, having traveled a bit myself, I thought it was highly satirical and critical, while keeping it naturalistic enough for it to work as…

Not that I'm fully endorsing the Auteur Theory, but it's being simplified a bit here. It says that some directors are concerned with artistic themes and manage to impose them on their works consistently and value that thematic quality over stuff like basic narrative theory, that the progression of a story in the most…

I guess the 1989 RPG Shadowrun is in the comments a hundred times by now. Direct mash up of DnD and Cyberpunk.

SPOILERS *****

Doctor Who has a huge canon now, spanning significant change in British society and all kinds of styles and choices on the show itself. It's no big deal if academics get stuck into it as a cultural text and it's bound to reflect the many negative aspects of its context as well as the good ones. And as writers on…

They are really straining the thing for Andrew with me. His douchey behavior, the access e-mail and how he talks to her on camera. It's getting so hard to believe she'd do anything other than have him exiled, let alone willfully see him.

Someone else has probably made this comment by now, but the Ice and Fire series takes a lot of cues from actual history. Martin did a lot of research for it. He mentioned again in recent interviews that the Red Wedding was inspired by two famous incident sin Scotland, one being the 'Black Dinner.'

While it was an interested read, the amount of and use of nudity in this ep was not remotely enough to provoke a soul searching screed on nudity in TV. I think the 'I'm not a prude / PC' thought needs to be explored more.

And the show did a good job of looking like it was foreshadowing Tommy growing into a villain role … and then hit us with that ending and making all the other characters personal doubts and failings come to the fore. This was the best episode of a season i grew to like a lot.

Yeah, the moment where Merlyn reveals the second machine and half the glades goes down anyway as they can only watch helplessly, some caught inside, was really good and I didn't see them doing it at all. It gave the show as whole another level of credibility, i thought and gave the theme of the episode a proper…