‘Game Of Thrones’ “Red Wedding” Was Based On Actual Historical Events


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So how is everyone doing, some four days after witnessing one of the most shocking and gruesome plot turns ever? I’ll admit to sharing in the perverse glee that many of us who’ve read George R.R. Martin’s A Storm of Swords - the third book in the series that Game of Thrones is drawn from – [...]

‘The Hunger Games’ Just. Got. Real.


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Lots of networks, businesses, publishers, and ambitious panhandlers have been hard a work trying to puzzle out the best way to cash in on the success of The Hunger Games this year, prompting an alarming uptick in plastic pink archery sets and cute little jumpers with bird pins on them, because every parent wants their [...]

Michael Bay Is Doing His Best To Make Me Hate Him By Screwing Up My Favorite Book


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The other night, my son asked me what my favorite book is. This is a fairly difficult question, because I’ve read a lot of books, and the best ones are great in different ways. There are books that are great because of their subject matter, there are books that are great because of the way [...]

BE AFRAID: Stephen King Release Date For ‘The Shining’ Sequel


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Stephen King has been working on a sequel to The Shining, and I will pause now so that you can barricade yourselves into your cubicles and sit quaking beneath piles of discarded toner boxes and/or dirty towels depending on what you have available. Fun Fact: ghosts HATE dirty towels and the fresh smell of toner, [...]

The Cloud Atlas Trailer Is Five Minutes Of Glorious Subtitled WTF


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You know those people who like to tell you within the first minutes of meeting you that they read all of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest (even the footnotes!) because they want you to think they’re smart? And then you’re all, “yes, certainly Infinite Jest was a challenge, and occasionally brilliant, but I didn’t find [...]