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  • Destroy All Monsters: WARCRAFT Sucks, But Fantasy Doesn’t

    Destroy All Monsters: WARCRAFT Sucks, But Fantasy Doesn’t

    New site! TwitchFilm has become ScreenAnarchy, and Destroy All Monsters continues. This week I come not to bury fantasy, but to praise it (but bury WARCRAFT tho).

  • Review: THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

    Review: THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES

    I’m Not The Same Hobbit I Once Was. For those who have read The Hobbit, there was always a rather obvious joke implied by the cliffhanger ending of the second Hobbit film,The Desolation of Smaug. The dragon Smaug sweeps dreadfully down from his lonely mountain towards the defenceless city of Lake-town, and we smash-cut to…

  • Review: THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG

    Review: THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG

    The Stubbornness of Dwarves Watching The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, I had a full moment of clarity about why the people who don’t get these movies just don’t get these movies. An elf was talking to a dwarf in a dungeon under a palace carved out of a tree. It all seemed perfectly sensible…

  • Cathedral cove

    Cathedral cove

    Coromandel – As we moved through the North Island we found a more and more commercialized, tourist-ized New Zealand; I must admit that this did not leave me in any great hope for the remainder of our last week here, as we approached the Mecca of all Lord of the Rings tourism – Hobbiton –…

  • Review: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY

    Review: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY

    All good stories deserve embellishment “I think I’m quite ready for another adventure,” 130-year-old Bilbo Baggins proclaimed at the very end of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, before stepping onto an Elven ship bound for the afterlife. It was his last onscreen line. A decade later, here’s another adventure at…