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Lord of the Rings

is Russell Crowe’s Noah a “crazy, irrational, religious nut”?

Fri, Feb 14, 2014
26 comments

Paramount is hoping to sell Darren Aronofsky’s Noah to both secular and religious audiences. This’ll be fun to watch…

| 26 Comments

this is why I love geeks: because they show us Middle-Earth from space

Sun, Feb 09, 2014
2 comments

These give me chills!

| 2 Comments

Doctor Who thing: the Doctor gets his own Little Golden Book

Thu, Jan 23, 2014
2 comments

Not actually. It’s part of an art exhibition in California.

| 2 Comments

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

Fri, Dec 13, 2013
38 comments

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

| 38 Comments

Paris photo of the day: Napoleon’s dark guardian

Thu, Nov 28, 2013
2 comments

Very Lord of the Rings.

| 2 Comments

Thor: The Dark World review: Viking with a chance of wormholes

Thu, Oct 31, 2013
23 comments

Think heavy-metal Lord of the Rings. With wormholes. It’s completely mad and kind of awesome.

| 23 Comments

Hammer of the Gods review

Fri, Aug 30, 2013
2 comments

This is what happens when your Lord of the Rings cosplay gets overrun by Method stuntmen.

| 2 Comments

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug trailer: an epic of epic epicness

Wed, Jun 12, 2013
9 comments

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

| 9 Comments

gender-swapping Lord of the Rings

Tue, May 28, 2013
16 comments

By Durin’s beard, this is magnificent!

| 16 Comments

Doctor Who blogging: “The Name of the Doctor”

Tue, May 21, 2013
80 comments

Doctor? Doctor… who? Moffat just keeps kicking that can down the road, don’t he?

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