Dunkirk Me No More

I figured it was because they were going into the middle of a war zone, and so were expecting deaths. Most of the soldiers they're going to save would have been 18-25 - a 16/17 year old dying suddenly from a concussion isn't going to make someone who has already decided on their course of action suddenly change their…

I'm a high school English teacher, and during my first year I was completely floored when large sections of classes took fucking ages to wrap their heads around the flashbacks in Death of a Salesman, nevermind something chronologically complex like most Nolan films.

That's not true: the spoilers people are concerned about aren't 'Duhh… does the Nazis win…?' or 'Lol does Titanic sink?'

Ah…. that's who that was. I thought it was Una Stubbs, but you're right.

Before she was killed off, I was desperate for a weird Rousseau flashback episode - in my head I imagined her time on the island would be this nightmarish, 'The Shining'-on-a-tropical-island thing. The way they eventually told her backstory - with Jin flashing to the key moments of the French expedition - is one of…

The acting in Lost was strong across the board, but in a just world, Michael Emerson, Terry O'Quinn, Naveen Andrews, Josh Holloway, Elizabeth Mitchell, Jorge Garcia, and Henry Ian Cusick would have to employ armies of assistants to sort through the scripts Hollywood was throwing at them.

I left Crystal Skull with complex new feelings about Soviet military uniforms and fake Russian accents.

Having seen Rogue One at the cinema on two occasions - one which included friends who don't really care about Star Wars; one with family members who hadn't seen the originals since the early 90s - I can confirm the CGI effects' power to convince. If you see Rogue One knowing that Peter Cushing's long dead and that…

I own the season 4 and 5 dvds - Season 5's menus are at least images of the characters surrounded by paraphernalia from the episodes on that disc: Homer sleeping at the plant, with one of Brad Goodman's books, a Screamville guide, and a pamphlet about how the elderly have nutrients we can extract next to him (I'm…

I asked for Season 4 as a Christmas gift back in '07, and whenever I dig it out I'm always irritated by the 4 second bumpers that follow you doing anything. I'm like, 'show me the episode I have recorded, second by second, in my brain, instead of showing me Lisa suddenly use a lightsaber to cut through the frame/Homer…

I really really liked it - it's not going to be one of my favourite shows of all time, but each hour was consistently enjoyable and I was always a bit gutted when it finished. Good acting, some great acting, a fun premise, and lots of interesting sci-fi ideas. Solid 4 stars out of 5.

It's really the kind of figure the star of a show should be paid though.

Yeah, people are determined to hate it for the sake of hating it, not because there's actually anything remotely objectionable about it.

The man we see being turned into a white walker by the children of the forest is the Night King - it's the same actor.

The timeline in Game of Thrones is whatever makes sense, and I don't meant that as a criticism. Plots move at different speeds unless they've converged - for instance, we probably saw a montage of a couple of weeks of Sam's life, where we saw an afternoon of Jon's. Euron built his fleet after Theon and Asha fucked…

Martin has a lot of talents, but he's particularly good at writing from the point of view of broken, terrified, in pain wretches, and playing up the gothic horror of their situation. The Theon stuff in 'A Dance with Dragons' was some of his best writing, and the hints he dropped about Euron were chilling.

I thought about that too, but Cersei did murder the court at the end of last season, so maybe the remaining guards and nobles just roll with it.

Because the number of main characters in ASoIaF is far larger than in TLotR, and Jon's death happens way after Gandalf's in their stories. It's a different situation.

I disagree - how hard is it to quickly go, 'Have you seen it?' before you start that avenue of conversation?