Mother Night is one of my all-time favourite books.

I think people sometimes forget how much of a mess that whole Dorne story line was in the books.

dropped plot-line involving You-Know-Who

Why is your brother not demanding a trial by combat to settle all this, again?

a sprawling televisual epic and event.

Now we actually have to spend the entire season where she becomes a skilled fighter while blind.

How is that not the most interesting thing to see in public?

Oh, I like the training stuff.

still not buying it.

the Queenmaker Plot is wonderful.
Really? What about it?

This night, and every Sunday night to come.

My wife & I howled at the the "top 5" line. That was the bro-est of conversations.

And he gave us The Outlaw Josey Wales.

I love these columns, so much; but this bit was a truly WTF moment:
The Man With The Golden Gun was one of the better Roger Moore Bond movies

This is what makes me slightly iffy about The BFG. Spielberg can certainly go dark…

But seriously, Dwayne Johnson can still fuck off.

my favourite canonical Scrooge is still George C. Scott. He blasted past curmudgeonly and unpleasant to truly bitter and a little scary in his ferocity to be left alone – then sold the cackling joy of the reformed Scrooge. He laughed like a man who had forgotten how to laugh over the decades, and sounds pretty creaky…

Hannibal the TV show was too poorly written, too fanciful and stupid, for me to accept any part of it as "definitive" about anything. Mads was wonderful, yes, but the vehicle too flawed.

Gwen is right, with everything she says about Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes. It was a masterful performance, and for ~20 years I regarded it as definitive. I still admire it; but –

Heath Ledger as The Joker?