I think the reviewer paid as much prominence to the background of African suffering that the film itself paid: which is to say, barely any at all. Perhaps the reviewers would be more interested if the film was more interesting? No, no; let's continue to blame the audience.

Why what? That we shouldn't expect the 'good guys' to behave like modern-day civil rights heroes?

Why would someone who suffered the 'depredations of being a commoner in a violent world' be expected to emphasise with the patriarch of an aristocratic house who was given mercy but chose death? It's not even like Tarly could plead his honour; he had literally just abandoned, betrayed and murdered (by complicity) his…

Thank you for yet another patronising assumption that I know nothing about post-colonialism and contemporary Africa, including the helpful reminder that Libya is in Africa. Here I thought it was a small village in Lincolnshire!

When an animated show becomes slightly overenamoured by its own fight scenes to the extent that they cease to be ironic and instead become tedious should probably be called Archer Syndrome.

Well, this was quite the journey.

And this is less humane than most of the methods of execution we've seen? Hell, Stannis burned people alive and didn't even make the process as quick as dragon breath.

Yes, surely Cannes is the nucleus of the US foreign policy establishment. We all remember how gun-ho the French were about Iraq!

On the other hand, the episode when the survivor's group turns on Jessica for the most mind-boggingly inane reasons is also the worst thing I've seen on television in a good long while.

A 'leader with dictatorial tendencies' is only a dictator if he is, y'know, a dictator. You can talk counter-factually all you want about 'likely logical trends', but the fact is that Hugo Chavez was in power for eleven years, so it's a bit much to suggest that he died just before he was ready to implement his…

Yeah, Bronn and Jaime collectively being 'killed' about nine times in that battle yet still surviving was pretty aggravating for a series that used to gloat about its realistic deaths.

I don't understand why Cersei is expected to be so impressed by the living dead when she already had Maester Frankenstein resurrect Sir Gregor.

Daenerys is (at least to her mind) the rightful queen of Westero; ergo, anyone who opposes her is committing treason, which is an offence punishable by death. There was nothing at all tyrannical about her punishing those who refused to bend the knee. Any other ruler - even the noble idiot Jon Snow - would've done the…

I mean, it was a joke in this case, but he was literally complaining about not being given access to any useful information and thereby drowned out the woman trying to convey plot-critical information.

Because they don't believe the delirious ravings of some oily squib from the north telling them that an army of zombies is bearing down upon humanity?

There's no such thing as 'semantics' in political science. A dominant-party regime, of which Venezuela under Chavez was the example par excellence, is very much distinct from a dictatorship. By your own proferred definition, Charles de Gaulle must have been a dictator because he rewrote the constitution to increase…

The very foundation of the criticism is that The Last Face treats the suffering of the populations of Sierra Leone and Liberia as mere background set dressing to the dull romance of sexy Western activists. It's a pretty huge leap to derive from this the idea that critics didn't like the film just because it was Too…

Chavez was emphatically not a dictator. He and his party handily won every election. He used his popularity and electoral dominance to push constitutional changes that increased the power of the presidency and undermined other institutions such as the judiciary, but he did it all by perfectly procedural means. He was…

To be fair, Penn was mostly sticking up for Venezuela when it was still a corrupt (but no more so than its neighbours) flawed democracy that at least was using its oil wealth to fund social services and welfare programmes. That's really not comparable for stumping for the DPRK, which has been a totalitarian regime…

There was a past contestant on Project Runway called Gunnar Deatherage, which sounds like the first-draft name of the hero of a zero-budget 80s B-movie later changed for being too implausible.