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Beach House put together a pretty stellar setlist for their stripped-down show at Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia Monday night (December 11th), including some live debuts and a few rarities they haven’t performed in over a decade.

After a surprise opening set from Philly’s own Kurt Vile, Beach House’s Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally did an intimate gig full of songs for the real heads. They performed “Many Nights” and “The Bells” — both from 2022’s Once Twice Melody: Chapter 3 — live for the very first time, and debuted “Devil’s Pool” from last April’s Become EP.

But the real surprises were the throwback rarities, including “Childhood” from their self-titled debut, which they hadn’t played in a whopping 16 years. They also did “Auburn and Ivory,” another Beach House deep cut, for the first time since 2012. And, for the first time since 2016, they performed Devotion’s “D.A.R.L.I.N.G.” and...

New fan art shows what it was like on the ground when Daenerys burned King's Landing in Game of Thrones. Throughout Game of Thrones season 8, Daenerys finds herself increasingly isolated by her advisors, companions, and friends. When it all comes to a head in episode 5 with "The Bells", she explodes into a wild rage and burns wide swaths of King's Landing to the ground in her rush to kill Queen Cersei.

While it can be difficult to picture what the attack would look like from afar, Kalaninychus posted a piece of art on Instagram that proves just how horrifying it would have been. Check out the post below:

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The art depicts Drogon and Daenerys working in concert to burn the city to the ground in Game of Thrones, as an onlooker watches from a raised hill. Fire burns all around,...

Miguel Sapochnik will step down as co-showrunner on House of the Dragon after Season 1. Pic credit: ©ImageCollect.com/F. Sadou/AdMedia

While HBO has recently renewed its epic fantasy series, House of the Dragon, for a second season, it appears one of the co-showrunners will not be returning in Season 2.

Miguel Sapochnik signed up as co-showrunner on its prequel series alongside Ryan Condal, and they have worked together on Season 1, which is currently airing on HBO.

Sapochnik is probably best known for his work on Game of Thrones, where he helped produce some of the most iconic battle scenes in the series.

Most notably, he directed Hardhome, The Battle of the Bastards, and The Long Night, all of which showcased large battle scenes.

In addition to this, he also directed The Bells, which was the final battle sequence in the original series and saw Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) completely flip...

Saying goodbye to “Game of Thrones” meant different things to everyone involved in making the show. As Season 8 drew to a close, composer Ramin Djawadi had a number of unique opportunities to bring his decade on the show full-circle.

The Season 8 soundtrack is a bit of a first for Djawadi, who chose to arrange the cues from the show’s final six episodes in chronological order, following the gradual reintroduction of themes from across “Game of Thrones” history. As Djawadi told IndieWire, all of that culminates in the final episode, which bids farewell to a number of characters using music that’s marked their respective journeys.

“When you see Brienne at the end, and she’s writing things down in the book about Jaime, I’m using the Honor theme, which had developed over the seasons for the two of them and their relationship,” Djawadi said. “Of course, the Stark theme got used a lot,...

Tweets about the final season of “Game of Thrones” spiked just after each episode ended, according to data provided by Twitter to TheWrap exclusively, meaning fans either intentionally or unintentionally decided to follow HBO’s request for “quiet in the realm” on social media during the airings of the last six episodes.

In the chart below, made up of Twitter data exclusive to TheWrap, you’ll see that for Episodes 1-6 of the final season of “Game of Thrones,” most tweets related to the show did not come until just after each installment ended. And before each new chapter of Season 8 aired, the show’s official Twitter account sent out some version of this “Quiet in the realm” tweet.

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So you can be the judge of whether or not fans were just too...

[Editor’s note: The following post contains spoilers for “Game of Thrones” Season 8]

“Game of Thrones” ended on a resilient note for Maisie Williams’ Arya Stark as the character headed out on a solo adventure to find out what is west of Westeros, but that doesn’t mean the actress was entirely satisfied with how the final season went down. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Williams expressed some disappointment with how Arya’s storyline panned out over the final six episodes. Mainly, Williams hoped Arya would be able to cross Cersei off her kill list.

“I just wanted to be on set with Lena again, she’s good fun,” Williams said. “And I wanted Arya to kill Cersei even if it means [Arya] dies too. Even up to the point when Cersei’s with Jaime I thought [while reading the script], ‘He’s going to whip off his face [and reveal its Arya]’ and they’re both going to die. I thought that’s what Arya’s drive has been.

The final season of Game of Thrones has been divisive at best. The rushed pacing and certain character choices left many fans feeling bitter after the penultimate episode, “The Bells”. I was one of those fans, and I detailed my grievances with the series as I prepared for the final episode. I prepared myself to […]

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"Game of Thrones" ended its run with yet another record. The final episode of the fantasy series brought in a series record of 19.3 million viewers for HBO in the Us.

The finale, titled "The Iron Throne", broke the record set by last weekend's episode, "The Bells" for which 18.4 million viewers tuned in, reports cnn.com.

The viewership for "The Iron Throne" includes 13.6 million people who watched the episode on HBO on Sunday night, making it the most-watched telecast in the network's history, according to HBO.

The rest were viewers who watched an encore presentation, or who streamed the show with the HBO Go or HBO Now apps.

"Game of Thrones" numbers are pretty big by TV standards. For example, "The Big Bang Theory", one of TV's most popular sitcoms, nabbed 18 million viewers for its finale last week.

The eighth season of the series averaged 44.2 million viewers per episode when one accounts for delayed viewing.

“Game of Thrones” has had a rocky season, with some fans campaigning to remake the last episodes. But even if you have misgivings about the direction the story took and the speed at which the show took it, you can’t fault the actors. So who do you think was the season eight Mvp and is most deserving of an Emmy after all is said and done. Scroll down to vote in our poll at the bottom of this post. Spoilers Ahead!

HBO’s epic fantasy series has won more Emmys than any other primetime comedy or drama series in history (the only program with more trophies is the late-night sketch comedy “Saturday Night Live”). But for the most part the show’s actors haven’t come along for the ride. Peter Dinklage (Tyrion) won Best Drama Supporting Actor a record-tying three times, but that’s it. Despite repeated nominations for many of his co-stars,...

The penultimate episode of Game of Thrones, titled "The Bells", saw the deaths of many key characters, not least of all Jaime Lannister. While Jaime was able to fulfill his dream of dying in the arms of the woman he loves, not everyone was a fan of how the Kingslayer's story ended.

Related: Who Died In Game of Thrones Season 8, Episode 5?

Jaime has been one of the most complex characters on the show, from his teetering between hero and villain to his relationship with Cersei. But his death seemed to ignore much of that character development and lacked the emotional payoff many were expecting. Was this the best way for Jaime's story to end or were there better options? Here are some of the alternative ways for Jaime's story to end that might have been better and some that might have been worse.

The fraught legacy of Daenerys Targaryean will live on long after the urgent clamor surrounding the end of “Game of Thrones” has calmed down. The First of Her Name, the Unburnt, Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, Breaker of Chains and Mother of Dragons turned out to be the series’ most tragic antiheroine, murdered by her lover/nephew (this show!) after she and her last remaining dragon razed an entire city of soldiers and innocents alike. After everything “Game of Thrones” has thrown at us, Dany’s “turn” from righteous liberator to destructive tyrant will probably prove to be its most controversial move. As someone who believes a story about Daenerys getting blinded by her own self-righteous hype would have been a worthy one if only the show hadn’t stumbled hard to get there, I suspect I’ll be thinking about it for a long time.

Spoiler Alert: This article contains details of Sunday’s Game of Thrones series finale.

It must be both a good day and a sad day at HBO now that the final numbers are in for the series finale of Game of Thrones.

Good because the viewership for last night’s episode — “The Iron Throne,” written and directed by David Benioff and D.B Weiss — has broken a record for the now-completed series as well as HBO. Sad because, well, let’s be honest, with all the potential prequels and spinoffs HBO has in the pipeline, it’s going to be hard to come up with GoT-sized numbers anytime soon.

As Bran Stark takes over as the new ruler of what is now the Six Kingdoms, the Game of Thrones-sized viewership numbers are fire-spewing-dragon big: 19.3 million to be exact.

Which means, across linear viewing plus HBO Go and HBO Now,...

HBO’s Game of Thrones, with its series finale on Sunday night, figuratively melted its previous viewership record into a puddle of iron.

The sixth and final episode of the eighth and final season, titled “The Iron Throne,” delivered an audience of 13.6 million viewers in linear viewership alone, topping the previous record (12.5 million) set just the week prior and unseating The Sopranos‘ Season 4 opener (13.4 million) as HBO’s most-watched single telecast ever.

Across all HBO platforms (linear, HBO Go and HBO Now), the fiery episode amassed a record 19.3 million viewers, exceeding the previous series high of 18.4 million (again, set by...

(Spoiler alert: Stop reading now if you do not what to know what happened on Sunday’s “Game of Thrones” series finale episode, “The Iron Throne.”)

Sunday’s “Game of Thrones” series finale broke the show’s record for multiplatform tune-in, with the episode, titled “The Iron Throne,” drawing 19.3 million viewers. That includes linear viewing on HBO and streaming on HBO Go and HBO Now.

In addition, the 1-hour, 20-minute final episode of the show’s eighth and final season broke HBO’s most-watched single telecast record, with 13.6 million viewers for the 9 p.m. airing, according to the pay-tv channel. The previous high (13.4 million viewers) was held by “The Sopranos” Season 4 premiere, which aired on Sept. 15, 2002.

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Following the “Game of Thrones” series finale, Bill Hader’s “Barry” ended...

Spoilers for the Game of Thrones series finale follow below. The Game of Thrones finale was surely one of the most highly anticipated television events of this century thus far, but fans of the show had already been rocked a few episodes back by what felt like a sudden turn towards the dark side for Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke). In the penultimate episode, “The Bells,” Dany broke bad fully, laying waste to a surrendered King’s Landing and killing every man, woman, and child in her way. And in the finale, well, Dany gets stabbed in the heart by her …...

A lot happens in each episode of Game of Thrones. So every week, we’re drilling down on one memorable scene in particular. Full spoilers for the series finale, “The Iron Throne,” coming up.

“What unites people? Armies? Gold? Flags?” Tyrion Lannister asks the surviving elite of Westeros midway through the Game of Thrones finale. He pauses, having run through the incorrect answers before delivering what he believes to be the right one:

“Stories,” he continues. “There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story. Nothing can stop it.

The end of our Game of Thrones watch has come, and the series of our era finds some of that old grace in its final moments.

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This Game of Thrones review contains spoilers for the series finale.

Game of Thrones Season 8 Episode 6

What a difference an episode can make. Last week, I speculated that we’d be processing that episode of Game of Thrones for many days, weeks, and perhaps months to come. I think it’s fair to say that this process is still in its infancy, despite the current online histrionics of fanboys demanding a reshoot/rewrite of season 8. While the final season of the most popular series of the decade has had numerous issues, it was in its last two chapters—and especially the final one—that storylines took on new and often bitter dimensions. Some of it might be rushed, some of it might’ve needed further detail,...

[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for the “Game of Thrones” finale: Season 8, Episode 6, “The Iron Throne.”]

“Game of Thrones” was often about believing in the impossible. Accepting that heroes could return from the dead, that fire-breathing beasts could patrol the sky, that the fairy tale rhythms of old could be used for less-storybook ends. With its final stroke, “Game of Thrones” added something to that list. It delivered an ending that fit.

Its final episode, “The Iron Throne,” saw a conclusion that didn’t so much serve as a corrective for the narrative shortcomings of its preceding installments as much as it reframed the last few dozen hours spent in Westeros. A punctuation of sorts to one of TV’s most massive installments, it cut through the myriad expectations and offered up an impressive closing chapter, balancing a litany of character sendoffs with a parting thematic statement on the nature of power.

The dread that pervaded the...

If the mixed reviews and petition calling for the entire season to be remade are any indication, “The Bells” has the dubious honor of being the most divisive episode in “Game of Thrones” history. Depending on how tonight’s series finale turns out, it may also be remembered as the most definitive: the one in which the show’s heroes, villains, and everyone in between finally revealed who they truly are.

Some couldn’t be swayed by their better angels, others managed to turn away from the dark path they’d been walking, and others still were killed by their own creation. The tide had so strongly been in the good guys’ favor over the last few seasons that many fans have forgotten what this kind of devastation felt like — and perhaps even tricked themselves into believing that we were being guided toward a positive outcome. As the eminently hateable...

Warning: The following story contains spoilers about the fifth episode of “Game of Thrones” Season 8, “The Bells.”

Lena Headey has reaped four Best Drama Supporting Actress nominations at the Emmy Awards for playing Cersei Lannister on HBO’s “Game of Thrones.” Should she receive bid number five this year, she would become the second most nominated “Thrones” actor at the Emmys, just behind Peter Dinklage, who is projected to nab his eighth bid this year. After eight seasons of sublime work and an incredible performance in “The Bells,” it’s time for Headey to finally ascend the Emmy throne.

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In the episode, a rage-driven Daenerys (Emilia Clarke) carries out her attack on King’s Landing after her failed attempt to make a truce with Cersei. First the Iron Fleet,...

Ahead of tonight’s series finale, Emilia Clarke has shared a heartfelt goodbye to “Game of Thrones.” The actress, whose character’s actions in last week’s episode “The Bells” may go down as the most controversial in the show’s history, writes that Daenerys Targaryen “has taken up the whole of my heart” and that “Thrones” itself has “shaped me as a woman, as an actor and as a human being.”

Here’s her full statement:

“Finding the words to write this post has left me overwhelmed with how much I want to say but how small words feel in comparison to what this show and Dany have meant to me.

“The mother of dragons chapter has taken up the whole of my adult life. This woman has taken up the whole of my heart. I’ve sweated in the blaze of dragon fire, shed many tears at those who left our family early,...

As Drogon flies across King’s Landing, torching its buildings, caches of wildfire erupt into green flame.

Warning: There be dragons! But ye shall be burned even more by the Spoilers that abound!

So she finally went and did it.

Daenerys Targaryen, who over the course of eight seasons, went from an apparently innocent waif, traded like a piece of chattel, to an assertive and determined navigator of the Westeros chess board who freed entire cities of slaves, acquired two armies in a quest to reclaim her family’s throne from usurpers and tyrants, has snapped, and borne out her family’s penchant for insanity. Not content at conquering King’s Landing, and defeating Cersei, she threw morality and human decency to the winds, and torched entire sections of King’s Landing, turning scores of innocent men, woman and children into French fries for no justifiable reason.

In so doing,...

The late red priestess Melisandre (Carice van Houten) used to warn about the night being dark and full of terrors, but she failed to mention the dark terrors found in the cold light of day. Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) had no such failure in "The Bells," the penultimate episode of HBO's Game of Thrones, which featured the Dragon Queen all but completely torching King's Landing to the ground.

Thousands of people are dead. Confidence in Daenerys is equally destroyed. David Benioff and Dan Weiss' adaptation of George R.R. Martin now stands with only 80 minutes left to wrap it ...

It's official: the 2022 Star Wars movie is going to be coming from David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creative team behind HBO's Game of Thrones. We recently learned that Disney has mapped out their release plans for the franchise following the release of J.J. Abrams' The Rise of Skywalker later this year, which will conclude the sequel trilogy and, more importantly, the Skywalker saga we've been following since 1977. The next, new chapter of the franchise is debuting in theaters in 2022 and Benioff and Weiss will indeed be behind it.

We first learned that David Benioff and D.B. Weiss had struck a deal with Disney and Lucasfilm in February 2018. Lucasfilm had also announced prior to the release of The Last Jedi that director Rian Johnson was set to work on his very own Star Wars trilogy set outside the confines of the Skywalker saga. So it wasn't totally...

Every week, IndieWire asks a select handful of TV critics two questions and publishes the results on Tuesday. (The answer to the second, “What is the best show currently on TV?” can be found at the end of this post.)

This week’s question: What are your winter holiday season viewing habits (that are not for work)? Do you have traditional go-to shows or movies? Are you looking forward to anything in particular?

Eric Deggans (@deggans), NPR

As I have written in the past, I’m not the kind of critic who loves holiday specials. Too often, they’re too hokey, too commercial, too weird (yes, Bill Murray, I still don’t get “A Very Murray Christmas”) or, in the case of countless Hallmark Channel movies, way too white. But I do have a few holiday media traditions, starting with my Spotify Holiday Tunes playlist, which gets fired up as...

'The Beginning or the End' 1947 with Robert Walker and Tom Drake. Hiroshima bombing 70th anniversary: Six movies dealing with the A-bomb terror Seventy years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb over the city of Hiroshima. Ultimately, anywhere between 70,000 and 140,000 people died – in addition to dogs, cats, horses, chickens, and most other living beings in that part of the world. Three days later, America dropped a second atomic bomb, this time over Nagasaki. Human deaths in this other city totaled anywhere between 40,000-80,000. For obvious reasons, the evisceration of Hiroshima and Nagasaki has been a quasi-taboo in American films. After all, in the last 75 years Hollywood's World War II movies, from John Farrow's Wake Island (1942) and Mervyn LeRoy's Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) to Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) and Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor (2001), almost invariably have presented a clear-cut vision...

Film is dead. So, what better way to give it a proper send off than to watch Bill Morrison’s haunting Light Is Calling, in which the filmmaker manipulates and elevates the 1926 silent film The Bells into a dreamlike meditation on random romantic encounters.

Although the film has a hazy, ruminative pace, Morrison creates a heightened sense of dramatic tension simply by slowing down the simple action of a soldier happening upon a pretty girl in a field to a near unbearable level. The viewer is forced to first figure out the movie’s “plot,” as it were, by latching onto the brief snippets of clearly defined imagery of the original film. Then, when the storyline becomes obvious, the waiting of the two parallel actions — of the girl and the solider — to inevitably intersect is drawn out to an extreme degree most likely not intended by the original filmmaker, James Young.

There is nothing better than watching an old movie at an old movie theater. The Hi-Pointe Theater in St. Louis is an independently run single-screen old-style movie house built in 1922. Just two weeks ago they celebrated their 90th Birthday with a two-night party featuring live music, trivia with prizes, and screenings of Sunset Boulevard and Top Hat on their massive screen. The Hi-Pointe was the home of the Vincentennial, the Vincent Price 100th Birthday Celebration Film Festival last year and is the place to go for Late Night Grindhouse, the monthly screenings of 35mm prints of horror and exploitation films (mostly) from the ’70s.

This month The Hi-Pointe will host a trio of classic Christmas movies on three consecutive Saturday mornings at 10:30am. Admission is just $5.

Hi-Pointe Theatre is located at 1005 McCausland Ave., St. Louis, Mo 63117

Showtime Line: (314) 995-6273

Here’s the Christmas Movie Classics Line-up:

Saturday, December 8:

The Bells Of St.

Release Date: Nov. 1, 2011

Price: Blu-ray $39.99

Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment

A holiday season is always approaching — so it’s always a fine time another edition of It’s a Wonderful Life, Frank Capra’s enduring 1946 holiday film classic starring James Stewart (Mr. Smith Goes To Washington), Donna Reed (From Here to Eternity), Lionel Barrymore (Key Largo), Thomas Mitchell (Three Wise Fools) and Henry Travers (The Bells of St. Mary’s).

The studio’s two-disc Blu-ray Shadow Box Gift Set is packaged in a shadow box and contains a two-disc Collector’s Edition Blu-ray with both a colorized version of the film in high-definition (yuck…) and the original, digitally remastered black-and-white movie in high definition (yay!).

The family movie, of course, concerns frustrated businessman George Bailey (Stewart), who’s contemplating suicide on Christmas Eve, but is shown by an angel what the life of his family and town would have been if he had never been born.

In a Fangoria Musick Exclusive, Matt Molgaard tracks down legendary Brooklyn rapper Necro to discuss his unique brand of Death Rap; his plans for the corpse of Michael Jackson; his distain for the world of "horrorcore"; and the fright films that continue to inspire.

Read on for the interview in this installment of Rapped & Tagged...

Matt Molgaard/Fangoria: First off Necro, let's talk about some of the things that have inspired you throughout your career, whether it be music, movies - fact or fiction, what helps fuel you as an artist?

Necro: Dead cadaver, that's the biggest influence hands down, rotted corpse covered in mucus, especially if its a cop's body, that adds to the pleasure.

Fango: You've enjoyed quite a bit of success throughout the years. Have you found it to be a bigger battle to obtain that success because you cater to fans of the horrorcore sub-genre of rap,...