I'd say that from a scare level it's not massively worse than the average 80s kid friendly blockbuster that it's riffing off. I reckon the average 12 year old could deal with it. I heard that the Duffer brothers said they'd tried to pitch it as something young teenagers would get excited about being allowed to watch.…

The problem is that if the AV Club don't pace the reviews correctly, they miss the window and end up posting their finale reviews long after everybody has forgotten about the show. Being a little over keen beats posting reviews after everyone has moved on to the next thing.

I've seen plenty of bitching that SW: Rogue One is getting a female lead, even though Episode VII ALREADY had a female lead… So yeah.

Pretty sure the BFG in Doom was 'tongue in cheek' named after the Big Friendly Giant.

I watched Good Dinosaur and found it mildly charming. I'd probably put it between my least favourite GOOD Pixar film (Ratatouille) and my favourite BAD Pixar film (Brave maybe). It was extremely pretty. Although yeah, the difference in style between characters and backdrops was a bit weird.

Yes - back when he actually gave Sansa to Ramsay, it seemed an extremely odd move, I know we discussed it a fair bit in the comments. Seemed like it was stupid and completely counterproductive at the time. From his plot this season it seems clear that he intended to wait a while for shit to go down, then swoop in and…

And I still failed to win big in the deadpool because I put half my cash on Melisandre… Very annoyed when Jon spared her!

And less fond of Notting Hill?

People are shit

I was rewatching the episode last night and I had this "mistake" in mind when the scene came up. Sansa had literally only just left when Ramsay started talking about his dogs, and he wasn't doing it in a menacing whisper or anything. There's every chance Sansa could just have heard him saying it.

Hardly, he was a skilled fighter because he was raised by a Northern lord, but the majority of his plot was just intimidation and random violence against anybody who got in his way or annoyed him. Aside from the magic archery this episode, his defining trait has been "sadistic chaos supported by reasonable levels of…

I would massively have preferred Rickon's death if after Ramsay had missed him 3 times, he'd had ALL of his archers aim at Rickon. It would have made it more believable and made it seem more of an orchestrated battle plan and less of a "sick game" that maybe Rickon had a chance of surviving.

I think this may be why I don't really like Bugs Life. As far as I can remember it came out around the same time as Antz (I definitely saw them both around the same time), and Antz is a superior movie.

I love the start of both Up and WALL-E, but I think they both shift tone too much as they progress. The first 10 minutes of Up is the best thing Pixar have ever produced, closely followed by the Earthbound section of WALL-E. But Inside Out is probably my favourite in terms of a fully realised film.

I think Ramsay's strategy was: "I have a bigger army I'm gonna crush these guys". If killing Rickon was an absolute necessity then yeah it was a stupid plan but I took it at face value - he was just playing a sick game as usual. Saying that, Rickon could have turned round and walked backwards once he got a few hundred…

I think it would all have worked a lot better if you took out the scene of Sansa angrily writing a letter. Just had her storming out of the Jon/Ramsay confrontation, and then next time you see her she's at the head of Littlefinger's army. Without the letter it's a last minute move - you could play it as something she…

Only just joined the betting pool, but I'm throwing my entire $100 stake on Smalljon.

Presumably that also means that there are 5% of reviewers who think this is actually a BAD film.

WALL-E, Up and Inside Out in your bottom 5? Brave at number 2? Monsters University above Monsters Inc.?

95% on Rotten Tomatoes doesn't really mean a lot of 5 star reviews though - it means 95% of reviewers said it was "good" rather than "bad". AA Dowd's review isn't glowing, but he's definitely a contributor to the "thumbs up" group.