I don't think he wants to be the next Kendrick. I think they're doing two very different things, and I'm happy that both of them have been successful.

Yeah, that was pretty exhilarating, although a little jumbled in the editing. Still, the horror was so great that this may have even topped "Watchers on the Wall," which I thought was a high-water mark until now. My husband, who's only caught a few stray episodes, kept asking me if this was the same show (he'd only…

As that week's expert review pointed out, the show's had plenty of opportunities to do with this other characters and never has, so there's a track record here.

And if I can preempt the "rape is horrible and should be showed as such" response, I don't think this show - beholden as it is to the HBO CEO of Tits - is really the best venue for handling sexual violence, least of all in a season with exactly zero women writing or directing. That many of the same people who stopped…

If this isn't on the next season of It's Always Sunny I'll be very disappointed.

Lazy writing, basically. But it got the point across.

Is the Stannis plot basically heading for Iphigenia in Aulis? Because I don't know if I can handle that.

I winced at that line because it's so, so true.

Everything about the Apichatpong sounds great to me. I'll be there as soon as, if ever, it gets a theatrical release. (I know Strand bought it, but…)

No, it's not.

Also, it doesn't help that I'm high on Mad Max, which treats sexual violence against women so, so, so much more smartly than this show ever has. It really underscores how badly this show has handled that theme.

I may have misunderstood (I haven't read the books) but I assumed the challenge was for Arya to recognize that it isn't being "no one" that she really wants/needs, but being "anyone". Having many faces isn't the same as having no faces, which seems to be the point they're making at her (and she gets it, eventually).

On the one hand, Cersei v. Olenna is the reason I watch this show: their spiteful, hilarious politicking is so sharp, so enjoyable, that I rewound and rewatched it twice before moving on.

Le Clezio is great - I'd start with The Interrogation.

Agreed. Hardy is one of my favorite working actors, but his accents - including in this - are always a little shaky.

Also, shout-out to "Monster Pals", one of my favorite things the show has ever done.

It's understandable, though - especially at Cannes, a festival that a lot of critics go to specifically to be surprised, and find Woody re-re-recycling material (this is his, what, third time at the Crime and Punishment well, and not in a way that distinguishes it greatly from his others?) I suspect people are on the…

The film itself was banned pretty quickly, but there was some robust debate in the press about the film when it was first released. As for the Cannes win, one critic noted that it probably won "because it appeared at all," which is damning with faint praise. Falkowska's book on Wajda has some of this information, with…

I like the timestamps! Granted there are only going to be so many iterations of "I rushed to wait in line for something I barely stayed awake through because I'm surviving on gitanes and stale croissants", but given how punishing a festival schedule can be, I like the reminders over the illusion of stress-free,…

I was surprised how much he looked like Bruce Campbell in all that makeup.