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Peter Jackson’s They Shall Not Grow Old (TSNGO) is a bold new poetic exercise in empathy and time travel. He achieves the remarkable by using state...
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Analysis
Every trip to Middle Earth that Peter Jackson and Co. take us on begins with something of a prologue. Some are longer than others,...
Analysis
Welcome back, Tolkien fans, to this examination of the Hobbit films. As a reminder, we’re revisiting this trilogy in preparation for Amazon’s upcoming “Lord...
Film
Based on the novel of the same name by Philip Reeve, the first of four in the series, Mortal Engines takes place in a...
Analysis
Hello Tolkien fans, Jackson fans, salty purists, and everyone in between! Welcome to part II of this analysis of The Hobbit Trilogy: three films...
Film
I was eleven when Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings film trilogy was released. I, like the millions of others who saw it, was...
Books
Fifteen years on, it’s hard for me to convey how much the film adaptations of The Two Towers (and later, The Return of the...
Books
Before we get into the specifics of Peter Jackson’s 2001 The Fellowship of the Ring let’s all take a moment to appreciate how wild...
Analysis
I’m going to start with an unpopular opinion: while The Hobbit movie trilogy is a terrible adaptation of the eponymous book, I think it’s...