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Trusting Shyamalan, While Waiting for The Hobbit
THOUGH THE SIX SENSE fascinated me, it was Unbreakable that taught me to trust M. Night Shyamalan. It was the first few seconds when text about comic books played at the beginning of Shyamalan’s second major movie that I was … Continue reading
Lincoln, While Waiting for The Hobbit
LINCOLN IS THE FIRST Spielberg-directed movie that I have seen twice during its initial run (as I recall). In fact, I left the theater opening weekend thinking that I had to see it again. It’s a dialogue movie, what one … Continue reading
Seven Minutes in (Hobbit) Heaven
A SEEMINGLY BIG FAN of The Hobbit took some time to put together something awesome: a compilation of all of the promo material for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey that has been released just far. Some of the quality is … Continue reading
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Star Wars and Story
IT WAS SOME TIME before I realized the cultural significance of Star Wars. The cultural phenomena of Star Wars I knew quite well: childhood’s evidence of speeder bikes and life-size lightsabers give me away on that account. But it wasn’t … Continue reading
Five Minutes of New Hobbit Music
THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY hits theaters next month! And even though theaters seem stuck with playing that very first trailer for the movie, other new bits are leaking out here and there. On Monday, Ain’t It Cool News posted … Continue reading
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Tagged Howard Shore, Radagast the Brown, The Hobbit
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Airplane Safety Should Be Hobbit-Forming
UNTIL THE HOBBIT PREMIERES NEXT MONTH, here’s a nice little video from Air New Zealand. They seem to have a lock on Middle Earth travel and have made a surprisingly good airplane safety video. Even has a couple of nice … Continue reading
TV Spot for The Hobbit Airs
WHO CARES about the trailer for Iron Man 3 when there’s a new TV spot for The Hobbit? Spin-Off Online and Empire are reporting that the first of three new films from Peter Jackson is clocking in at 2 hours … Continue reading
Arthur Dent and the Frustrations of Long-Distance Travel
JUST BEFORE HE LOST HOME AND PLANET, Arthur Dent threw back six quick pints at the neighborhood bar on order from his (alien) friend, Ford. Why? To prep for the effects of on instantaneous travel. Dent learned that traveling far … Continue reading
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Tagged Arthur Dent, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Closing the Loop with Looper (no real spoilers, I think)
LIKE SO MANY OTHERS, I kept waiting for Looper to crash under its own weight, to short-circuit because of its story-telling overload. That crash, that short-circuiting, never happened. Looper is as taut and quality a movie as you can hope … Continue reading
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Trailers that Give Me Chills: Cloud Atlas
I’M PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT MOVIES these days, and it’s not just the promise of The Hobbit at Christmas-time. I saw the trailer for Life of Pi at the theater again this Tuesday, and it still gives me chills (and I … Continue reading
Space Enough, and Time 