Text-heavy this time round, so you children of the post-literate age might not like it (in other words: no Youtube for you).

1. Guarded optimism on Making Light about the forthcoming Watchmen film. Read the comments for plenty of discussion about Starship Troopers and Lord of the Rings. Personally, as with the latter film(s), I can see them quite ( Read more... )

Although somewhat slight, academically speaking, this paper on Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring did come up with a sentence that neatly encapsulates my reaction to LotR: Return of the King:

It often seems that two completely separate crews worked on this film - one, caring deeply about Tolkien’s vision, on the sets, ( Read more... )