Winter has well and truly come in Game of Thrones in the gripping teaser trailer. In the evocative, and let’s be honest, creepy crypts beneath Winterfell, which will be one of the first places to feel the icy touch of the White Walkers and their leader, the Night King, we Continue Reading
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Game of Thrones: How symbolism is used to represent its various houses
Any way you look at it, Game of Thrones is a clever, complex, multilayered show. Part of its appeal is that it invest meaning in every scene, every characters words and actions, with nothing left to chance. As the knowledgeable people at ScreenPrism beautifully explain, this extends to its use Continue Reading
Now this is music #94: PVRIS, Chase & Status and Blossoms, Goo Goo Dolls, Ainslie Wills, Akouo ft. Montaigne
Done right, and thankfully so much of it is, music should move you deeply and completely and wholly. Mind, body and sould should be engaged; you should never hear a song and just go “Oh … that’s nice.” Upbeat songs should move you to dance or turn a dark Continue Reading
Game of Thrones: “The Queen’s Justice” (S7, E3 review)
SPOILERS AHEAD … AND DRAGONS … AND SOILED PANTS You have to hand it to Jon Snow (Kit Harrington). Against near-unanimous advice from his bannermen and his sister Sansa (Sophie Turner) – who got the keys to Winterfell, and the even more-obsessive attention of Lord Petry Baelish (Aidan Gillen) Continue Reading
Toying with expectations: Michael Tucker examines the storytelling of #GameofThrones
With season 7 of Game of Thrones mere nanoseconds away from kicking off – a slight bit of hyperbole but after waiting so long, it does feel like that – Michael Tucker aka Lessons From a Screenplay arrives with a timely look at the way HBO’s ratings juggernauts frames Continue Reading
Winter is here – and so is a fearsome new Game of Thrones S7 trailer and posters
SNAPSHOT At the end of season 6 Daenerys’ (Emilia Clarke) dragons and her immense army were finally on the way to Westeros, where Cersei (Lena Headey) has now become Queen after the death of her children. The Night King’s (Vladimir Furdik in season 6) army is heading south, and Continue Reading
Everybody wants to rule the world: Gloriously good Game of Thrones montage video
It’s no secret, not after countless books by George R. R. Martin and six seasons of HBO’s watercooler-stomping megahit TV show, that everybody, and I mean everybody, wants to rule to rule the world. Or in this case, sit upon the Iron Throne and look out upon the Seven Continue Reading
“Oh the Places it’ll Snow”: Game of Thrones gets a whimsical Dr Seuss touch
Oh the weather outside is frightful Adn the White Walkers are not delightful And since we’ve no place to go Let It (Jon) Snow! Let It (Jon) Snow! Let It (Jon) Snow! Granted those lyrics are from the famous song by lyricist Sammy Cahn and composer Jule Styne, “Let it Snow! Continue Reading
Songs for all seasons: Watch Peter Dinklage + Coldplay in special Game of Thrones the Musical clip
*THERE ARE GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS AHEAD … BORNE ON SINGING DRAGONS WINGS* What the world needs now is … love, sweet love? No citizens of Westeros, and further abroad, what the world needs RIGHT NOW is Game of Thrones the Musical … or at least one song from Continue Reading
Goodnight Westeros: The world’s most entertainingly bloodthirsty bedtime story
Who, as a child, didn’t love a lovely relaxing bedtime story right before you went off to join the Sandman in the Land of Nod? (A scary guy in himself, the very idea of whom gave me the heebie-jeebies as a child; neither he nor the land he inhabits actually sounds Continue Reading