I think that one of the finest achievements of A Separation was how Iranian culture was depicted in such a matter of fact manner, to the point where it never felt intrusive to the storyline about flawed human beings and merely complimented it.

Saw this as part of the London Film Festival earlier this year. It's not as good as A Separation, but still remains an excellent example of Farhadi's skill as a screenwriter.

Terrible Christmas songs? My time to shine…

Don't forget to scream "AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!" as you shoot your gun in the air

What, is she funny or something?

What's not to get?

He forfeited the opportunity to have disparate notions of power ever come into real conflict with one another? So where does the scene where Cersei gives Littlefinger a humbling demonstration of her power fit into this? It's a great scene (which doesn't appear in the books but is totally consistent with Martin's…

Scenes of dragons burning everything to a crisp and whitewalkers slaughtering fleeing crowds set to Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again".

Damn, I kind of wish I had a copy of the book in front of me right now. I do remember it quit vividly, because it was the point in the book that I went from "This is pretty interesting…" to "WHAT THE FUCK?!? I MUST READ THE ENTIRE THING IN ONE SITTING."

The weary delivery of "Yeah… fuck it…" was perfect.

Yeah, I largely felt the same as I do now mainly because I was aware that they were using it to bolster their image and using it as a tool of propaganda.

Well, I'm British. And also Chinese, so technically I should have even less right to criticize human rights violations.

That's true, but since we're talking about works of fiction and not real life, it's fair to say that it is a lot more satisfying when things happen for a reason than when it's just a bunch of random things happening.

I am waiting and waiting and waiting for the moment where Arya is reunited with Nymeria.

I totally agree with you, but I think that it's harder to sympathize with Jaime in the series than in the book. In the book, GRRM describes Jaime pushing Bran with a certain degree of reluctance. The line "The things I do for love" is a rueful one, and he describes a look of contempt and self loathing that crosses…

Well, again this goes back to the idea of the Olympics declaring itself to be an apolitical entity, but time and time again being used as a rebranding exercise by countries with morally dubious regimes.

I'm not going to call you homophobic, but I just think that in this day and age it's very hard to keep politics out of most things, let alone a major sporting event. Hitler used the 1939 Olympics as a gigantic PR exercise, as did China during the Beijing games. Similarly, when Formula 1 announced that it would be…

I'm sure there are worse nights to come. But it's a learning process.

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