May 29, 2012 | Forbes
If you’ve read the George R.R. Martin series, “A Song of Ice and Fire,” the basis for the HBO television series, Game of Thrones, you’d know that a multitude of characters have been written out of the show. Producers David Benioff and Dan Weiss did it to keep the...
May 28, 2012 | Forbes
Holy smokes, I'm leading an army! I didn’t know how to summarize the penultimate episode of season 2, “Blackwater,” so I thought I’d have the opening crawl of Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith do it for me: “War! King’s Landing is crumbling under attacks by the...
May 25, 2012 | Forbes
What is the nature of good and evil? Do I have a destiny? Do these eyes make me look fat? Young people become have increasingly irreligious in countries such as Denmark, yet they still ponder the big questions: Is there a heaven? What happens to us when we die? Will...
May 21, 2012 | Forbes
Fiance? What fiance? Why is this episode, “The Prince of Winterfell,” different from all other Game of Thrones episodes? It’s because there was a lot of talkie-talkie and no slicey-dicey. The few corpses we saw came pre-stabbed. We did have one sex scene that was...
May 18, 2012 | Forbes
For its many fans, Blade Runner is sacrosanct among science fiction films. When news of a sequel first surfaced, many of us screamed internally, “Do not mess with our holy text!” When Scott’s name was attached, our nerd rage was soothed. But if the latest rumor is...