First, from CNET, we have the confirmation of the long-awaited and long-rumoured Lord of the Rings on Blu-Ray. Woot. This excites me on so many levels. The actual report is about the boom in Blu-Ray sales which are, no matter what anyone says, the result of HD-DVD’s collapse which caused player prices to plummet. Second, […]
(Forwarded to me from Evan From Today’s Shelf Awareness newsletter) The eight-month search is over for a screenwriter to adapt J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, and it ends back where it started. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Peter Jackson and Guillermo del Toro decided “that no one is better suited for the task than they are. […]
Stick a fork in it, because it’s over. It’s official. Today, Toshiba has announced that HD-DVD is no more and will be relegated to the bin of history. For the first time, consumers have won in receiving a quality product instead of the cheaper product. Blu-Ray is here to stay and coming within the next […]
Peter Jackson: Middle Earth, A Hard Hobbit to Break Some bits from various wire reports cut and pasted together: Relations between Jackson and New Line soured after “Rings” despite a collective worldwide box office gross of nearly $3 billion, decimating records around the globe. After publicly warring for well over a year, “Lord of the […]
Peter Jackson has been removed as director of the Lord of the Rings follow-up, The Hobbit. I think there is 100% agreement outside of New Line Cinema that this is perhaps the worse idea since New Coke. Let me go on the record as saying a Jackson-less Hobbit shall not be seen by me nor […]
This is a retro-post. I put this online 24 December 2005 using the date it was originally sent out. Lord of the Rings — Part One (The Movie Review) Well, this movie is one I had been waiting for a very long time. My expectations were unobtainable and possibly unreasonable. My fear of being let […]
This is a retro-post. I put this online 24 December 2005 using the date it was originally sent out. LOTR: Two Towers Review First, it’s hard to say whether a review of this film contains Spoilers because if you’ve read the book, you already know what happens. If you’ve not read the book, stop now. […]
This is a retro-post. I put this online 24 December 2005 using the date it was originally sent out. LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING (REVIEW) You WILL be warned before spoilers. It’s OK to read the first bit. First, a word about spoilers: If you’ve read the book there are, by definition, […]