Game of Thrones: ‘The Iron Throne’ Brings Everything to a Close, with Mixed Results
Our watch has ended. The 95 minute finale brought everything to a close. While the places our characters find themselves by the end are interesting (and fitting to varying degrees), the way the show got there was anything but a…
Game of Thrones: ‘The Bells’ is a Technical Masterpiece Filled with Tension, Action and Genocide
There several points in last night's episode, 'The Bells', where Jon Snow is shocked and appalled at the absolute brutality unfolding around him in King's Landing. These shots are juxtaposed with sweeping aerial shots of Dany burning King's Landing in…
Do Mothers Have to Choose Between their Careers and their Children?
This is a tricky question to ask, especially since the context- and meaning of the question- varies from culture to culture (and country to country). In collectivist societies, such as our own and the ones in India and China, women…
Game of Thrones: ‘The Last of the Starks’ Moves the Needle Dangerously Close to the End
The Long Night is over, and the Battle of King's Landing looms ahead. In 'the Last of the Starks', things start off with mourning, our characters saying goodbye to the people they lost in the war against the dead. As…
The Battle of Winterfell Subverted Expectations. Here’s Why That Might Not be a Good Thing.
What does Game of Thrones, Avengers: Endgame and Star Wars: The Last Jedi have in common? All of them are important chapters of their respectful franchises, and all of them have important deaths (and important battles). Each of these dealt…
Why Grief is an Important Theme in Avengers: Endgame
I remember seeing Tony Stark adrift in space, his loneliness echoing through the confines of the Benatar. I looked to my friend on my right and said, “This feels like Marvel’s Interstellar.” When I first saw Interstellar in 2014, I…
Game of Thrones: ‘A Long Night’ Delivers a Tense (and Anticlimactic) Battle at Winterfell
'The Long Night' was dark and full of terrors. Jon and Dany's forces took on the might of the Night King in a terse, terrifying battle. They survived, barely, by the skin of their teeth, thanks to a timely assist…
Avengers: Endgame is a Soulful, Emotionally Resonant Conclusion to the MCU Franchise as We Know It
There are some movies that mark a cultural moment. The Titanic. Terminator 2. Jurrasic Park. The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King. And of course, Empire Strikes Back. Avengers: Endgame is, without a shadow of a doubt, one…
Why Avengers: Infinity War is Probably Better than Avengers: Endgame
Where were you when the Avengers died? It’s the kind of question that people in the Marvel Cinematic Universe might ask themselves, when referring to the events that occured in Infinity War. Of all the heroes who joined or fought…
How Captain America: Civil War Set the Stage for Avengers: Endgame
t’s no coincidence that when you think about the second Avengers movie, Captain America: Civil War pops up more often in the public consciousness than Avengers: Age of Ultron. It’s not just that Civil War gets so many things right,…
