The much-anticipated final film in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit trilogy, The Battle of the Five Armies, arrives in UK cinemas today. > Read our review of the movie. The Tolkien fans over at Made to Measure Blinds decided to celebrate by creating blind banner designs for each of the titular five armies – the perfect … >
A 25-minute longer cut of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug will be released later this year, with more than nine hours of new special features. The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug Extended Edition will be available from Monday 3 November as a 5-disc Blu-ray 3D set featuring the Blu-ray 3D and Blu-ray versions of … >
Steven Moffat has confirmed that The Lord Of The Rings director Peter Jackson is still keen to direct an episode of Doctor Who. The showrunner told SFX in the magazine’s new issue: “He’s still incredibly busy on The Hobbit. I’ve spoken to him face to face, and he would like to do one. He accepts … >
To celebrate the release of Inside the TARDIS: The Worlds of Doctor Who by James Chapman, we’ve got copies of the book to give away to 5 of our Twitter followers!
To celebrate the release of Middle-earth Envisioned: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings: On Screen, On Stage, and Beyond (out now, £25) – a complete, fully-illustrated exploration of Middle-earth – we’ve got copies of the book to give away to 3 of our Twitter followers!
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, Peter Jackson’s return to Middle Earth, was a very accomplished and entertaining opening chapter of this prequel trilogy, albeit an undeniably uneven one.
The Desolation of Smaug is probably superior, but suffers from a curious inverse of the problems that the first had. Luckily for Desolation, it has a dragon up its sleeve.