By Kat Rosenfield

Oh, those tiny Starks of Winterfell. They’re so cute! So determined! And so very, very good at murder, as we discovered yet again on last night’s episode of “Game of Thrones.” The latest kid to join the family’s blood-spattered legacy: Bran Stark, who used Hodor like a human puppet to basically rip an assailant’s head off in the melee at Craster’s Keep.

And according to Isaac Hempstead Wright, this was a very fine moment, indeed.

“It’s about time Bran gets his violent streak on!” Hempstead Wright, the actor who plays the young Mr. Stark, said in an interview with Vulture. And after Hodoring one man to death, Hempstead Wright sees his character fixing to kill again: “Perhaps the Stark children will reunite and form an evil vigilante squad, and take revenge on all the Lannisters!”

Yes, please! Adventures of the All-Stark Child Murder Team is a spin-off series we would surely watch — preferably in a back-to-back-to-back block with “Brienne and Podrick’s Road-Trip Travelogue” and “The Real Housewives of Craster’s Keep.” And if a Bran/Arya vigilante drama is in the works, there’s no end of potential outlets for them even after they’ve exacted revenge on the Lannisters.

The Avengers: Winter Is Coming
At the risk of stating the obvious, there’s already one butt-stomping Stark out there who doesn’t play by the rules. Slotting Bran and Arya into the Avengers franchise as Tony’s teeny time-traveling cousins would be a piece of cake. Arya would be right ...

Notice anything different on your Instagram account in the past few hours? If you’ve been feeling a bit empty, it’s probably because Rihanna hasn’t been filling up your feed with any sexy, rated-R photos or hilarious and inappropriate social commentary. Rih’s Instagram account has vanished, leaving only an “error” message in its wake.

It’s possible that Rihanna decided to temporarily suspend her own account, but that seems so unlikely considering the amount of fun she’s been having with it lately. Our second guess is that her account may have been flagged for its content. Last week she went on a posting spree, sharing photos from her Liu magazine cover spread, with included her in both topless and bottomless poses.

A short while after posting her topless cover shot on Instagram, she deleted the photo and directed fans to Twitter instead, to see the image. That’s one sign that she may have been flagged for sharing inappropriate content on the social media site.

Earlier in the week, she joined the Internet in voicing collective outrage at Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his racist comments, and those notes weren’t too PG either.

Hopefully this is just a temporary thing, because really, what would Instagram be without Rih Rih?

Nadeska Alexis

Going into “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” it was hard to say which direction the movie would take in terms of Gwen Stacy.

Spoilers below!

Emma Stone‘s character is known best in the comics for dying. In fact, the debate over whether Spider-Man killed her while trying to save her still wages on.

Since Gwen’s identity is so closely tied to her demise, it became a question of whether “The Amazing Spider-Man 2″ would follow the path drawn for it for 40 years, or set the audience up for possibly the most surprising non-death of all time.

As anyone who saw “The Amazing Spider-Man 2″ this past weekend knows, the filmmakers chose the former, and a lot of fans aren’t sure how to feel about it.

There’s the camp that understands that the nature of Gwen’s character and her role in Peter’s life requires her to die. To them, keeping her alive would fly in the face of the source material, a cardinal sin for a superhero movie.

On the other hand, the chemistry between Stone and Andrew Garfield was one of the best things that the series had going for it. Replacing Gwen with Felicia Hardy or Mary Jane Watson means bringing in an actress who could never possibly measure up to Garfield’s real-life girl.

What, are they going to find someone who shares more chemistry with Garfield? Unlikely.

But enough about what I think, it’s time to share your thoughts. Vote in the poll above and share your thoughts below in the comments.

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It wouldn’t have been Star Wars Day without a message from the guys who are making “Star Wars: Episode VII.” And happily, director/writer J.J. Abrams, and writer Lawrence Kasdan delivered with a video selfie from the set of the newest film in the saga.

Yes, the video is less than half a minute long, but that doesn’t mean we can’t analyze it to death. Here are 23 questions we have about the video, one for each second:

1. What’s a Video Selfie? That’s a term Ol’ Grandpa Abrams came up with. Most of us call them selfies. Or videos. But not Mr. “Super 8″ himself, no he has to give it a fancy city name like “video selfie.”

2. Where Are They? London, yes — Abrams says that in the openings seconds of video. But where are they specifically? Is it someone’s house? A set from the new movie? The Tower of London? No idea on this one.

3. Maybe It’s The Millennium Falcon? No, it’s not.

4. What’s In The Cabinets Behind Them? The strikingly white room is only broken up in the background by two bottles in the otherwise empty cabinets. The video is too low-res to read the labels, but given the size and shape of the bottles we’re guessing they’re bottles of wine. Or maybe blue milk.

5. How About Those Curtains? What clues can we glean from the curtains? It looks like there’s a design reminiscent of microscopic organisms, so is Abrams suggesting he’ll be working the controversial midichlorians — bits ...

Things may be a little awkward between Selena Gomez and the Jenner sisters, but Kylie and Kendall seem to be getting along just fine with her ex.

A week after being spotted getting dinner with Kendall in NYC, Justin Bieber posted an Instagram photo with Kylie (as well as 18-year-old model Yovanna Ventura) at the Floyd Mayweather fight on Sunday night.

We’re not jumping to any conclusions on whether Kylie and Bieber are more than friends, but what makes the whole thing a little strange is the fact that Selena just recently unfollowed both Kylie and Kendall on Instagram — and deleted photos they had taken together at Coachella.

And again, we’re not jumping to any conclusions, but shortly after he shared the selfie, Selena waxed emotional by posting stills from John Legend’s “All of Me” video. (Back in March, Bieber and Selena got rather friendly dancing to the song in an Instagram video.) Then again, Selena might not have even seen Bieber’s photo — considering she follows literally no one on Instagram.

Emily Blake

A Weekend Full Of New Music
The first weekend of May gave us a handful of new music vying to be the first big songs of the summer. Nicki Minaj teamed up with Soulja Boy for “Yasss Bish” – just enough of a tease to hold me over until The Pink Print drops. More Young Money music came when Lil Wayne and Drake dropped “Believe Me,” the first single Weezy’s “Tha Carter V.” And early Monday, Usher gave us “Good Kisser” in full after weeks of teases.

Mother Monster Slays artRave Opening
Lady Gaga kicked off her ARTPOP Ball Tour in Fort Lauderdale Sunday night, complete with a latex octopus costume and a totally topless moment. Paws up, Little Monsters.

“Britney Broke My Nose”
Britney Spears may have more bills to pay after she allegedly accidentally smacked one of her backup dancers and broke her nose while rehearsing for her “Work Bitch” music video back in August. According to the dancer, Dawn Noel, the pop princess never paid for the necessary surgery. Noel is rumored to file a lawsuit against Spears today.

5SOS Gets Another Worldwide Twitter Trend
The boys from down under released an animated lyric video for “Don’t Stop” early Monday morning, spawning another worldwide Twitter trend (#5S0SDONTSTOPLYRICVIDEO) and some major freak outs by fans.

India Nicholas

“Oh, I missed you,” Lady Gaga gushes to her audience. “How much did you miss me?”

It might seem a strange question to ask, considering the “G.U.Y.” singer’s been actively promoting her latest album, ARTPOP, since July of last year. But, this seems to be the underlying narrative of artRave: The ARTPOP Ball Tour, which kicked off in Fort Lauderdale on Sunday, May 4. Everything that has happened in this era thus far has been building to the tour, a time when Gaga can interact with her fans directly, and not through some media middleman. (Present company excluded because I am great.)

Appropriately, the artRave followed Lady Starlight‘s opening set with title-track “ARTPOP,” which saw Gaga hinting at the possibility of such a reunion: “We could, we could belong together.” Along with six elaborate costume changes and what’s got to be half the world’s supply of confetti, what came next was, in many ways, an exercise in reestablishing the kind of strong, fan-to-artist connection that Gaga had achieved with the Born This Way Ball, before that tour was prematurely cancelled in early 2013.

Among the different personas she tried on during the show were a fashion-darling It girl (“G.U.Y.,” “Donatella,” “Fashion!”), a flighty, high-pitched goddess (“Venus,” “MANiCURE,” “Cake Like Lady Gaga.”), and a familiar, sales-friendly ghost of the past (“Just Dance,” “Poker Face,” ...

Lady Gaga‘s artRave: The ARTPOP Ball Tour opener tonight (May 4) in Fort Lauderdale, FL was almost too much for words. I don’t even think “YAAAS!” can cover it this time. Like, if I was wasn’t open-mouthed mesmerized by the “G.U.Y.” singer’s insane get-ups (inflatable, latex octopus tentacles? Are you f***ing serious?!), I was caught in a shower of weed-leaf confetti. One second I was a Koons, then suddenly the Koons LITERALLY COULD NOT.

But, if there’s one moment in the entire two-hour concert that really jumped out at me, it would have to be the second-to-last costume change in the set. After performing “Alejandro” in a black, skintight get-up, Gaga suddenly declared that she’s “not afraid to get a little filthy.” To prove this, she then ripped the green, shoulder-length wig right off of her head. Yes, she literally snatched her own wig. Reverse Warholian expedition says what?

As the 28-year-old star began stripping off nearly all of her clothing — save for some panties and a pair of sparkly, silver pasties — a team of stylists rushed onstage to change Gaga into her next ensemble.

Despite being soundtracked by would-be Azealia Banks-featured banger “Ratchet,” the quick-change wasn’t a choreographed affair, which made the moment bare and intimate enough to border on uncomfortable. It’s, like, she took something that’s normally hidden away backstage and brought it out onstage in full view of the audience without really prettying ...

The latest episode of “Game of Thrones” was mercifully free of overtly controversial moments and shocking twists that went past the continuity of the books. In fact the most surprising bits were that we’re still not done with events from the very first season.

Here’s everything you missed on “First of His Name:”

All Hail The King, Again
With Joffrey now safely in the opposite of Heaven, Tommen is crowned king of Westeros. The event is mercifully free of any incest jokes oh wait, we’re totally kidding. A seemingly defeated Cersei talked to Margaery about how she knew Joffrey was cruel, and goes as far as to suggest that perhaps Margaery should marry Tommen.

It’ll become clear what Cersei is doing in a moment, but for Margaery, her, “gosh, I never thought of that idea,” act takes on a little bit of a disingenuous bent when she jokingly tells Cersei, “I won’t even know what to call you. Sister, or mother?”

Ouch forever.

All Hail The Queen, Additionally
Meanwhile, on Tatooine, Dany is grappling with finding out that Tommen is ruling King’s Landing, while she’s at the height of her powers and in possession of a fleet of ships. Jorah, for the first time in several seasons, gives solid advice: you can conquer King’s Landing, but she won’t take Westeros. And not only that, the Slavers are fighting back against her otherwise excellent Abraham Lincoln impersonation.

Instead, Daenerys decides to stay in Meereen and, “do what Queens do. I will rule.” And books readers are excited, because they ...

“The Simpsons” episode “Brick Like Me” was one of the family’s most fun and creative adventures in years. With the whole town turned into LEGOs, the writers took every single opportunity to make as many clever LEGO jokes as they could…

But just how many LEGO puns and gags are hidden in the episode? We found all 52 (we think):

1) Homer says that Marge gave him her hand in marriage, and literally takes off her hand.

Luckily, she has a special champagne hand that she last used on New Year’s Eve.

2) Homer on LEGO Maggie: “They’re so cute when they’re Duplo.”

3-5) 99-Stud Store, Lard Fig Donuts, Brik-E-Mart

6) H and R Brick

7) BS – First Brick Of Springfield

8) Brick, Block, & Beyond

9) Adult Blocks

10) Basic (LEGO) Human Anatomy

11) Bart rebuilds school following LEGO playset guidelines.

School playset is 15,000 pieces, for ages 12+, though as Principal Skinner says, “Age guidelines are conservative. Everyone knows it.”

12-15) Philip K. Brick Books: “UBrick”; “Minifig In The High Castle”; “We Can Bulid You”; “The Three Stigmata Of Timothy Archer” (with a LEGO eye on a LEGO hand).

16) “Block Runner”

17) “Radioactive Fig”

18) “Bloc-quaman”

19) “Block-Go Comics”

20-23) More Philip K. Brick Books: “Sort My Pieces, The Policeman Said”; “Beyond Lies the Stud”; “A Scanner Blockly”; “Do Mini-Figs Dream Of Plastic Sheep?”

24) Brick iPhone