Posts Tagged ‘J.R.R. Tolkien’
Film Review – Dune
The history of Frank Herbert’s novel Dune being adapted to the big screen has had its fair share of ups and downs. Alejandro Jodorowsky made an attempt only for the project to fall apart. David Lynch released his version in 1984 to critical and financial…
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Film Review – Tolkien
From Game of Thrones to Harry Potter, the lasting influence of fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien is evident. Most of the tropes we’ve come to associate with high fantasy were explored first in his Lord of the Rings and Hobbit novels that were originally published from…
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Episode 4 – Tolkien + WonderCon 2019
On this podcast, we breakdown all the events and panels we attended at last week’s WonderCon in Anaheim. We talk about Batman‘s 80th birthday, exclusive footage of the upcoming Dark Phoenix, and at the end of the program, we review the indie biopic Tolkien, which…
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Film Review – The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Six films, about twenty hours of runtime, spread out over thirteen years. That’s a lot of commitment for Peter Jackson to give one franchise. And for his efforts, he’s delivered two trilogies taking place in the same universe, but different in terms of quality. The…
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Film Review – The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
When I was a young boy I had a toy, a thin rubber man in a bright red and blue outfit. He was just a generic toy purchased for less than a dollar somewhere, but when you’d grab his feet and his head or his…
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Giveaway – Pacific Rim Blu-ray
The folks at Warner Home Video have given us a blu-ray copy of Pacific Rim to give away. To be eligible please fill out the form below.
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Film Review – Pacific Rim
Monster movies have long been a staple of the industry. Dating back to projects such as the enormously successful King Kong (1933), they are a cathartic way of working through our fears and nightmares in a safe environment. Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that…
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Film Review – Jack the Giant Slayer
I’m continually surprised at how underappreciated it feels like Bryan Singer is. Despite having directed one of the best thrillers (and my favorite movie) in The Usual Suspects, and helping to resurrect the comic book movie with his work on X-Men, he is generally overlooked…
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