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Lord of the Rings

question of the weekend: Moving house: awful thing, or the worst thing ever?

Sat, Jan 28, 2012
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Please share your moving horror stories here. If you have any fairy tales, I’m sure we’d all love to hear them, because we’ll never have heard anything like them before.

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question of the day: What movie event would you be willing to participate in a re-creation of?

Wed, Jan 04, 2012
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A re-creation of the Titanic’s maiden voyage doesn’t have an iceberg collision on the schedule, but it’s totally impossible not to guess that someone will re-create Jack’s “I’m the king of the world!” moment…

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watch it: “The Hobbit Production Video #5”

Tue, Jan 03, 2012
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Watching a video like this only enhances my enjoyment of a film, because it makes me appreciate the effort that goes into creating a seamlessly authentic cinematic experience.

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question of the day: What is your most anticipated movie of 2012?

Mon, Jan 02, 2012
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I gotta go with The Hobbit. I think I might well be happy to have no other movie but The Hobbit to watch this year.

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Immortals (review)

Thu, Nov 10, 2011
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It’s like if Samwise Gamgee wrote fan fiction about Greek mythology, and then Vogue magazine’s most outré photographers did a huge photo spread based on that…

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today in studio asskissing: just try avoiding ‘The Hunger Games’ between now and March

Tue, Nov 08, 2011
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I’m not posting these new character posters merely because I want to look at them. What makes you think that?

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question of the day: What part of Hollywood would you #Occupy?

Thu, Oct 27, 2011
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I might #Occupy studio facilities where they do motion-capture, and allow it only for Andy Serkis to portray a hobbitlike creature or an ape…

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The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn (review)

Wed, Oct 26, 2011
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A soulless CGI-animated remake of Raiders of the Lost Ark. Without a Harrison Ford to smirk and snark his way through it, natch.

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Saturday cute: Occupy Mordor

Sat, Oct 22, 2011
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Because one ring should not be allowed to rule them all.

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real-life hobbit house in Wales

Wed, Oct 05, 2011
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Well, the house is real. Apparently there are homo sapiens living in it, not homo hobbituses…

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