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Lord of the Rings

Happy Hobbit Day!

Fri, Sep 22, 2017
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Today is the birthday of both Frodo and Bilbo Baggins.

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King Arthur: Legend of the Sword movie review: well I didn’t vote for him

Mon, May 22, 2017
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Derivative, rote, devoid of heart and hope. Guy Ritchie has found no reason to retell Arthur’s story, or to render a mythic hero as a self-serving thug.

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The Great Wall movie review: not to be torn down

Fri, Feb 17, 2017
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Plain pure fun. At its best, it’s Lord of the Rings meets Aliens, with incredible imaginative grandeur and genuinely breathtaking 3D depth.

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curated: Mordor National Park…

Fri, Jan 27, 2017
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…now on Twitter.

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A Monster Calls movie review: the monster is within us all

Tue, Jan 03, 2017
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A fairy tale of the Grimm sort: no happy ending, no heroes or villains, just hard truths about life and human nature. Important, beautiful, heartbreaking.

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Rogue One: A Star Wars Story movie review: the high price of hope

Fri, Dec 16, 2016
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There’s genuine fun here, but the humor is cynical, the heroics are tinged with regret, and it’s all delivered with a cold smack of — yes — political relevance.

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Before the Flood documentary review: DiCaprio takes celebrity climate-change advocacy to a new level (LFF 2016)

Wed, Nov 02, 2016
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Leonardo DiCaprio’s abashed personal journey to learn about global warming, overcome his pessimism, and find hope that there’s still time to make a difference.

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from Facebook: how Tolkien was inspired by the Battle of the Somme

Fri, Jul 01, 2016
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Warcraft: The Beginning (aka Warcraft) movie review: guest review by a white male teenage nerd from 1987

Mon, Jun 06, 2016
277 comments

Like all Frazetta fantasy posters came to life all at once. A masterpiece of cinema that truly speaks to the interests of white male teenage nerds from 1987.

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from Facebook: one meme to rule them all

Fri, Apr 15, 2016
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