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Hobbit The Desolation of Smaug

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies movie review: there and back again… at last

Wed, Dec 10, 2014
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I fear that Peter Jackson has been suffering from a similar affliction to the dwarf king’s “dragon sickness”: a compulsive lust for epicness.

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my guesses for Sunday night’s 86th Academy Awards

Mon, Mar 03, 2014
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Winners are indicated. I got 16/24. Pretty good, if I may say so myself.

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug review: are we there yet?

Fri, Dec 13, 2013
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Smaug is a magnificent cinematic creation… but there’s no good reason it takes so damn long to get to him.

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evening clickbait: first look at Smaug, via Air New Zealand

Mon, Dec 02, 2013
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Stuff I found on the Net today.

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug new trailer: here be Cumberbatch

Thu, Oct 03, 2013
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The Hobbit 2 is like a joke title meant to highlight Hollywood’s vacuousness. Jackson’s gonna have to work hard to live that down.

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most popular posts on FlickFilosopher week of Jun 8-14 2013

Sun, Jun 16, 2013
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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug trailer: an epic of epic epicness

Wed, Jun 12, 2013
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By god, Peter Jackson is going to squeeze all the epicness he can out of The Hobbit, even if it kills us.

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question of the day: What 2013 movie are you most looking forward to?

Thu, Jan 10, 2013
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Let’s get our geek on for the coming year!

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