50/50 is a laugh-out-loud comedy one moment, and an eye wiping drama the next. It stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Adam, a twenty-something who is unexpectedly diagnosed with a rare spinal cancer. His best friend Kyle (Seth Rogen) is on hand to try to make sure Adam survives this event with a smile, and hopefully get laid in the process. Adam is a resilient fellow who tries his best to power through... 

How to start this review? Well first I guess I must recognize what came before. In 1982 John Milius and Oliver Stone came together to write a movie about Robert E. Howard’s most famous character, Conan. Milius went on to direct the film, and Arnold Schwarzenegger stared in it. The movie, Conan the Barbarian is a classic, and practically launched Arnold’s career. Flash forward to 2011 and... 

Fire and Blood opens on a bloody sword… a really bloody sword. In the background we see a blurred shot of someone picking up Ned’s head, reiterating the shocking scene that closed the previous episode. We then see Arya being held by Yoran as well as Sansa fainting. The music really plays up the scene and it is quite heartbreaking. Yoran grabs Ayra and takes her out of the area. He calls... 

Episode 9: “Baelor” opens in darkness, and then Lord Stark’s breathing. Soon Varys appears with a torch and the second half of the Stark/Varys conversation I talked about last week occurs. Varys asks Lord Stark to confess his treason in order to save his life. There is a nice chat about Varys background as well as the how Lord Stark was raised. Lord Stark says he is a soldier and his life... 

The end of Episode 7 resounds heavily with the start of Episode 8: The Pointy End. We start off with Arya training with Syrio the dancing master, but quickly transitions to other parts of the Hand’s tower, to see the household being slaughtered. Not just fighting men, but cooks, stable hands, and the like, all getting butchered by the red cloaked Lannister men. I guess it goes to show you that... 

X-Men: First Class is the latest addition to the X-Men franchise. Many hoped it would be a reboot of the franchise (including me), however it really comes across as more of a “back to the roots” type prequel. By that I mean it feels like it fits right alongside X-Men and X2. It’s a little campy in sections and tries to take itself seriously enough, but can’t seem to find the correct... 

Oh Ned, what an honorable man you are. Tsk tsk. But I get ahead of myself. Episode 7: “You Win or You Die”, opens in a sea of red. Red tents that is, as we are at the Lannister war camp for a long speech about expectations and dynasties. Here Tywin Lannister makes his first appearance (I am not sure he is even in the first book) as he meets with his son Jaime and explains how the Lannisters... 

“A Golden Crown” opens with Ned regaining consciousness in his room only to be confronted by the King and Queen. Ned wants justice for his slain men, while the Queen wants justice for her kidnapped brother. It’s a crazy scene where Cersei insults the king and gets a royal slap for her insolence. She says she’ll wear the bruise with honor, while Robert tells her to keep of mouth... 

So, episode four was all a build up to this. Wow. I’m certainly not disappointed. “The Wolf and the Lion” is definitely the best Episode to date, and just like past episodes the scenes not taken from the book turn out to be some of the best. We start with Ned visiting the corpse of Ser Hugh, where Barristan the Bold is standing vigil. We learn the boy had no real family to watch vigil for... 

This Episode opens with Bran practicing his archery in the yard of Winterfell, in what you have to assume right away is a dream, and when the three-eyed crow shows up the dream is confirmed. It is not the trippy falling dream that I spoke of in the last recap, but it is one that is also in the books as the crow leads Bran to the door of the crypts. Bran then awakes in his bed with Old Nan by his side....