The Hobbit

Belief in oneself can be a powerful thing. Shot concurrently, produced over 8 years, and ultimately costing $281,000,000 (USD), The Lord of the Rings is as audacious an experiment in cinema as has ever been attempted. Must it not have…

Peter Jackson hasn't directed a film that I've found unenjoyable. That includes The Lovely Bones (as highly flawed as that movie is). But it seems that he's determined to test the patience of all cinema audiences, including his biggest…

You can tell whether a story is good by its ability to engage the reader from the beginning to end.  When it comes to films of recent times, it is the same conundrum with the Lord of the Rings trilogy; each outing needs to be as good, or…

There is a whole sub-community of movie executives who will farewell their Hollywood careers when, as most assuredly it will, this film plummets like a clumsy giant out of the sky on its general release to the public. For, unlike the…

We arrive, once more, at the end of another full year, another year in which myself and fellow Flickfeasters have cast our eyes over far too many movies to count. But, fool that I am, I thought I'd give it a go anyway. What follows is an…

I have fond memories of reading The Hobbit when I was a youngster and I'm sure that many others do too. In fact, every time I tried to read The Lord Of The Rings and ended up realising that I was not yet old or mature enough to wade through…

In true Middle-earth fashion the green carpet was rolled out in London's Leicester Square last night for the premiere of, arguably, the most anticipated and hotly discussed film of the year, The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Director…

It's just over a month until the big day, that time when we all gather around a big tree in the morning and pretend that a chubby bloke somehow managed to sneak into the house in the middle of the night and leave a selection of suitable…

Stunning new artwork for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, featuring Gollum, Gandalf, and a merry gathering at Bag End! www.hobbitmovies.co.uk www.facebook.com/TheHobbitUK www.twitter.com/HobbitMoviesUK

New Line Cinema, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, and Warner Bros. Pictures Announce Third Film in The Hobbit Trilogy BURBANK, CA, JULY 30, 2012 — Peter Jackson will make a third film in his upcoming adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s enduringly…