Talk about beating a dead orc. In dutifully completing his prequel trilogy to his three-part Lord of the Rings triumph, director Peter Jackson has sadly saved the worst for last. The Hobbit: The ...
There are three big Middle-earth lessons in “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies,” Peter Jackson’s final film tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien’s literary fable. Firstly: Dragons, even ones as mighty as ...
An army of filmmakers in New Zealand worked to bring J.R.R. Tolkien's world back to life -- on some 99 sets, with hundreds of props and truckloads of Russian hair because, the filmmaker tells THR, "we ...
The story still stands up, but the game that has been wrapped around it simply cannot keep up its end of the bargain. In contrast to the grand scope of J. R. R. Tolkien's epic Lord of the Rings ...
The Dec. 17 debut of “The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies” marks both an end and a beginning for Peter Jackson. It represents the culmination of his 16-year, six-film J.R.R. Tolkien marathon — ...
More than a decade after the discovery that a diminutive relative of modern humans once lived on the Indonesian island of Flores, Gerrit van den Bergh was losing faith that he would find any clues to ...
How do dragons make plans? They don't--they just wing it! Well... we're definitely getting a 'Zootopia 3.' Some worlds never end, they just wait. The Hobbit trilogy did The Bard justice. These movies ...