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Game of Thrones is a complex puzzle where none of the pieces actually fit together. Conventional wisdom and the literary cues given to us throughout the first three seasons are proven false without warning. It’s as if author George RR Martin is telling us to stop anticipating what will happen because we are wrong. Now…
This Sunday is Father’s Day, the annual tie giving, barbecuing holiday that adorns our June calendars every year. The week before is filled with racked brains trying to figure out something our poppas would actually want. It’s not any easy process. Unless you are in fact a dad and then it’s time to just sit…
There are a lot of films released every year that are sci-fi or fantasy in nature. But not many of them are able to boast being based on a true story. One such supernatural true story in the works has gained some traction after being linked to one of Hollywood’s most prominent leading men. Deadline.com…
Have you stopped crying yet from the “Red Wedding” last week? It definitely took me some time. But Game of Thrones doesn’t leave us with such tragedy during the long off-season. Instead we got this week’s season finale, which wrapped up stories and ultimately gave us a ton of questions to mull over until next…
When I was younger I was under the impression that everyone needed to pick a side with genre movies. I was late to the “Harry Potter” game, a franchise that ended up being my favorite of all, because I chose “Lord of the Rings” and I couldn’t betray my friends from Middle-Earth. The same goes…
Did you happen to see “The Last Stand” starring the can’t-miss pairing of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Johnny Knoxville? Well, guess what. It missed. After the success of “The Expendables” and its sequel the ex-California Governor was supposed to be continuing his Hollywood comeback trail into action stardom. But “The Last Stand” flopped and a few…
For the first time in three years of Game of Thrones, I have left an episode depressed. We learned with Ned’s death in season one that every character’s slaughter is fair game, but that doesn’t make this any easier to handle. A defenseless family betrayed at a wedding feast and a whole story arch wiped…
May was a pretty great month for movies. “Iron Man 3” brought people to theaters in droves, “Star Trek: Into Darkness” provided us with the biggest spoiler of the year so far and “Fast and Furious 6” was really bad and amazing all at the same time. Well June isn’t quite as packed with anticipated…
The summer movie season is officially underway, and 2013 is shaping up to be quite a year for comic book movies and the film industry in general. Marvel Studios is already blazing a wide trail, shattering both franchise and industry records with its release of Iron Man 3, whose worldwide earnings have already exceeded the…
Video game movies have a reputation for being poorly adapted, poorly made and poorly cast abominations that solely exist to empty the pockets of avid gaming fans. Fellow Geek Insider writer Mohseen Lala highlighted the seedy underworld of video game movie adaptations in his article “The Absolute Worst Video Game Movies Ever Made”. But there…
Have you finished mourning the end of “The Dark Knight” trilogy yet? It hasn’t even been a year, but the prominent rumors related to the franchise that we’ve been receiving for the better parts of the decade are definitely missed. Director Christopher Nolan is keeping busy post-Batman. He co-wrote and produced this summer’s Superman film,…
It may be hard for some to believe that there was a time when movie directors didn’t have celebrity status alongside the actors that appear on screen. Now we have more successful and unique directors than we can even count. We can often identify a director by the look and feel of a film. If…
The eighth episode of this third season of Game of Thrones saw the writers take a step back. Sure we got somewhere story wise, but in the process we left out a number of our characters to focus on a handful. No Bran, Jaime, Jon, Robb or Theon, but I’m not complaining about that. Frankly…
In 2012 an odd thing happened. After “The Avengers” was released and every movie-going person in the world saw the film, its box-office receipts ballooned to a ridiculous amount. That wasn’t the odd part though. Even with Iron Man, Captain America and The Hulk carrying the screen time, a group of devoted fans clung to…
When reading the books in George RR Martin’s “A Song of Ice and Fire” or watching Game of Thrones, there is always a subtlety with how the story advances. You could watch a whole episode or read 100 pages and it seems like nothing happened, but invariably the story moves along. Well this isn’t one…