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Game of Thrones – Season 5 Episode 7: “The Gift”
This is episode seven of a season which so far has had a lot of ups and downs. It certainly doesn’t feel like the seventh episode. Let’s see if this episode makes up for the trauma of the final scene of episode six.
Game of Thrones – Season 5 Episode 6: “Unbowed, Unbent, Unbroken”
The title of episode six is the words of the House Martell of Dorne, a statement of their peoples’ resilience and resistance. This episode’s title is incredibly ironic in a unfunny sense, as several characters emerged broken by its conclusion. Before watching this episode I accidentally read a spoiler about it that made me very […]
300: Rise of an Empire (2014): “Only the gods can defeat the Greeks.”
The highly anticipated sequel to 300 (2007), 300: Rise of an Empire (2014, dir. Noam Murro) is an action-packed historical war film loosely based on the events of the Battles of Artemisium and Salamis, in the year 480 BCE. It follows the Greek general Themistocles (Sullivan Stapleton), as the Greeks seek to defend their democracy […]
Genre Grandeur: 300 (2007)
Another month goes by, and it’s time for the excellent Genre Grandeur over at MovieRob! The theme for August was war films, and I chose a film about a different kind of war; that is, the Battle of Thermopylae that occurred during the Persian Wars in Ancient Greece. There have been lots of amazing reviews […]










