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We’re Now Powered By Nostalgia More Than Ever!

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George Chrysostomou on nostalgia… Upon reading Anghus Houvouras’s piece on why everyone is hating on Ready Player One, a key theme of his argument really hit home – it struck me that there really ise a lot of nostalgia in the current crop of films and TV shows. Now, I know that this has always been present. Every […]

Preview of Game of Thrones: A Clash of Kings #7

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Dynamite Entertainment’s comic book adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s epic A Song of Ice and Fire continues this week with the release of Game of Thrones: A Clash of Kings #7, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here… Game of Thrones: A Clash of Kings #7 is set for […]

Game of Thrones: Conquest winter events launch, new trailer released

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Winter is here, The Night King’s army has breached the Wall and is invading Westeros in Game of Thrones: Conquest, with Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and HBO Global Licensing announcing the launch of limited time in-game winter events that take place from December 22nd through to January 2. During the Jaime’s Pledge event, which takes place December […]

The 10 Best TV Shows of 2017

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Samuel Brace with his ten best TV shows of 2017… Wow. What a year it’s been. 2017 has been a true standout for high quality television; featuring never better returning favourites, premium series finales, and new shows announcing their arrival onto the stage. There’s been a bit of everything in 2017 but just which of […]

The first read-through for Game of Thrones season 8 left the cast in tears, says Sophie Turner

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Apparently, the scripts for the final season of Game of Thrones left the cast in a very emotional state. In an interview with EW, Sophie Turner — who was plugging the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix — inevitably talked about Game of Thrones, and the reaction that the cast had during the first read-through: “We had […]

Game of Thrones’ Jacob Anderson talks about Season 7’s Casterly Rock siege, and how it has influenced The Unsullied

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Season 7 of Game of Thrones was nothing if not exciting. For all of its jarring changes in pacing, the show achieved some sort of spectacle in nearly every episode, making the penultimate season one of the most exciting seasons to date. One such spectacle was the siege of Casterly Rock, which saw The Unsullied […]

Blu-ray Review – Game of Thrones: The Complete Seventh Season

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Games of Thrones Season 7 Starring Emilia Clarke, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Peter Dinklage, Aidan Gillen, Kit Harington, Lena Headey, Diana Rigg, Sophie Turner, Maisie Williams, Liam Cunningham, Carice van Houten, Nathalie Emmanuel, Indira Varma, Alfie Allen, Gwendoline Christie, Conleth Hill, John Bradley, Isaac Hempstead-Wright, Jerome Flynn, Hannah Murray, Joe Dempsie, Kristofer Hivju, Rory McCann, and Iain […]

Preview of Game of Thrones: A Clash of Kings #6

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Dynamite Entertainment releases Game of Thrones: A Clash of Kings #6 this coming Wednesday, and you can take a look at a preview of the issue here… Arya continues to travel north with Yoren and the mysterious Jaqen H’ghar. Meanwhile, Theon returns to his home, the ancestral seat of the Greyjoys upon the isle of Pyke—and […]

Game of Thrones fan theory debunked with season 8 casting

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In the season seven finale of Game of Thrones, we learned that Cersei Lannister had sent Euron Greyjoy to Essos in order to recruit the sellswords of the Golden Company for the Lannisters war with Daenerys Targaryen. This prompted a fan theory suggesting that Michiel Husiman’s Daario Naharis could make his return to the show as […]