Apparently. He's doing the season finale too, so I'm sure it will be sharp.

That's fine (and obvious), but none of that has anything to do with what I wrote.

That battle was at once well-directed, visually thrilling, and beyond retarded. Good thing Ramsay had trained his phalanx to perfection for the occasion when fighting a smaller enemy that stares dumbfoundedly as it allows itself to be pocketed in horseshoe formation a la the end of the Lord of the Rings with a…

It's mentioned in the books and even in the previous episode IIRC that this is the place where they bring all the idols of all the peoples they have conquered. So they almost certainly just looted those statues from some random city and thought, as a nomadic people whose entire lives are based around horses, that the…

Yeah, that's definitely a fair concern — I've witnessed that argumentative tactic more than enough times to hate it as well.

Yep, Evans is one of the top scholars in the field, and definitely a good source for this sort of thing. Those books have scholarly weight while being readable, no mean feat.

No idea what the novel does, but Hitler's religious views in real life were … difficult. I'd note two things that most people seem to sweep over:

Former member of Counting Crows spotted.

Jesus, first a salute to Harvey Danger, and now this. You know, sometimes things really do just suck. If I see a feature saluting Counting Crows and Jaws 4 I'm off to join ISIS.

Far better than a C+. No, it isn't a typical Holmes story, but it's by turns very sad and sweet. I found it beautiful.

In a surprise twist, British redcoats will charge into act 2 and bayonet his wife.

A jumped-up pantry boy who never knew his place.

I had the misfortune of hearing Brimful of Asha on the radio that day and I've been filled with loathing ever since.

Looking forward to the Menudo and Cornershop features next.

The studio Life During Wartime is a lot tighter and less overly busy (and less 80s) than the Stop Making Sense version - it's better all around. And the 1987 live version of From Her To Eternity (mentioned in the article) is far superior to the live version posted here - again, tighter, but also better produced,…

"the two greatest acts of mass murder of all time"

I find it strange to see all the love for this track, as for me this is just one more song from the album that suddenly announced, after a quick rush of four brilliant records, that Talking Heads after their long break had become a Bad Band. All that magical energy and jagged herky-jerkiness is gone, a much less…

Yeah, I absolutely love that album - about as much as I hate Floodland. Floodland is just so shiny and bombastic: it's the Sisters' Avalon (another bland album that bizarrely gets a lot of love).

You could fill a book with just brilliantly insightful Ebert quotes - not just reviews, or essays (though obviously those too) - but quotes as well.

Yeah, it's just so dull after the magic of their first four.  Just make those the national anthem and toss the rest.