The Lord Of The Rings

Ian Holm 'I've always been a minimalist. It was Bogart (Humphrey Bogart) who once said, "If you think the right thoughts, the camera will pick it up." The most important thing in the face is the eyes, and if you can make the eyes talk,…

I admit I was expecting more from the new heist thriller, The Trust. The film by writing / directing siblings Alex and Benjamin Brewer, and starring Nicolas Cage, Elijah Wood and Sky Ferreira, has been heralded as a black comedy. Having…

As flawed as it is ambitious, animator Ralph Bakshi's attempt to make an epic movie from The Lord Of The Rings may have left viewers with a rough, unfinished product (it all ends rather abruptly after the battle at Helm's Deep), but it…

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…

Gandalf, Gollum and Bilbo Baggins may be on their way to England as New Zealand looks set to lose the filming of The Hobbit movies. Financial backers Warner Brothers have begun making arrangements to shift the production to another…