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Live-blog: Peter Jackson's entire Middle Earth saga marathon
Movie Feature | Matt Looker | 20th April 2015
The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies is released today on DVD and Blu-ray meaning that we can all finally enjoy, not just the Hobbit trilogy, but Peter Jackson's entire Tolkien saga in our own homes. So who wants to join me in a movie marathon that could end up outlasting time itself?
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The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug
Movie Review | Neil Alcock | 11th December 2013
First things first: there are no songs, no washing up scenes and no fucking eagles in The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug, which immediately makes it a better film than its predecessor. The eyeball-molesting increased frame rate of An Unexpected Journey has also been, if not dropped, then less loudly trumpeted for this film, which is another blessed relief. You'd almost be fooled into thinking that Peter Jackson has been listening to his critics, were it not for the fact that Desolation is still an obscenely long, slightly dull, inferior version of a Lord Of The Rings film.
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If every character on the new Hobbit poster was wearing a fun little hat
Movie News | Ali Gray | 5th November 2013
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Please explain the benefits of a man doing motion-capture for a dragon
Movie Feature | Ali Gray | 23rd October 2013
Presumably by now you'll all have seen the photos of Benedict Cumberbatch covered in mini ping pong balls, contorting his face like a trooper in order to provide motion-capture for Smaug, the dragon in The Hobbit. Now I don't mean to be a killjoy, but... this is a wind-up, right?
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Movie Review | Matt | 10th December 2012
So we're back to the familiar LARPing territory of Middle Earth then. With wizards and elves and dwarves and huge CGI monsters and big sweeping shots of the New Zealand countryside. The Hobbit may be a different story to The Lord Of The Rings - an independent story that came first, with its own characters and dangers and adventures - but there is really nothing all that unexpected about this journey. Oh apart from the singing. That’s a bit of a shock.
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Well fuck you too, Galadriel
Movie Feature | Matt | 3rd November 2012
New character posters released for The Hobbit, but only Galadriel looks like she's flipping us off.
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News article on The Hobbit trilogy to be split across two pages
Movie News | Ali | 31st July 2012
After seeing how Warner Bros and Lionsgate doubled their profits from the final books in the Harry Potter and Twilight series by splitting them into two films, Peter Jackson has gone one better and split JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit into a trilogy, averaging around 99 pages per movie. We investigate after the jump, then in more detail after another jump.
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BREAKING NEWS: The Guardian respond to Tintinhategate
Movie News | Ali | 12th November 2011
Last week, I pointed out that The Guardian seemed to have a bee in their bonnet over Steven Spielberg's The Adventures Of Tintin, and how they'd published no less than six articles bashing it. Well, brace yourself: The Guardian have given us an official response.
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Look, it's Bilbo Baggins
Movie News | Ali | 23rd June 2011
Hobbit fans, commence smoking of the weed: the first official stills have been released. As a bonus, they're watermarked with Entertainment Weekly logos, in case you forget they are ALL POWERFUL.
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Only a day after everyone else; here's the Tintin trailer
Movie Trailer | Luke | 18th May 2011
Yes, everyone else had the trailer for The Adventures Of Tintin: The Secret Of The Unicorn yesterday when it was still fresh - but we followed our gut instincts and went with a piece about Paul Blart instead. Turns out we are just a pretty face.
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