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Peter Jackson

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part I movie review: image manipulation

Thu, Nov 13, 2014
39 comments

One of the best SF series ever deepens its critique of the power of propaganda in ways complicated, intriguingly contradictory, and a little bit horrifying.

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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.

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

Thu, Oct 03, 2013
7 comments

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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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.

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gender-swapping Lord of the Rings

Tue, May 28, 2013
16 comments

By Durin’s beard, this is magnificent!

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West of Memphis (London Film Festival review)

Thu, Dec 20, 2012
1 comment

Public perception and police misconduct take well-deserved raps here, as do larger issues of American injustice…

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (review)

Mon, Dec 10, 2012
90 comments

No, not all who wander are lost. But doesn’t mean that some who wander aren’t lost. Such as Peter Jackson, with his first-of-three-parts big-screen adaptation of The Hobbit.

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Jean-Luc Picard wants a binder full of women (and other adventures in social networking)

Sun, Oct 21, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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people who actually hang out on IMDB are terrifying (and other adventures in social networking)

Wed, Oct 17, 2012
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Links my followers on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ saw today…

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Doctor Who thing of the day: Matt Smith wants Peter Jackson to direct an episode, Jackson says Cool!

Thu, Sep 20, 2012
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Look, it’s not happening, but this is what we get when everyone’s a geek and is on Twitter and whatnot.

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