‘The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy (Extended Editions) Blu-ray review
Peter Jackson’s masterful and timeless Lord of the Rings trilogy represents a cinematic feat that will not easily be matched.
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Peter Jackson’s masterful and timeless Lord of the Rings trilogy represents a cinematic feat that will not easily be matched.
Ian McKellen (The Hobbit, X-Men) and young people talk about the effects of homophobic bullying in a new video for Anti-Bullying Week 2012.
JRR Tolkien’s world comes to life with the classic BBC radio dramatisations, The Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit Collection, and we’ve got a copy of the 19-disc boxset to give away to one of our Twitter followers! For a chance to win, just follow CultBox on Twitter and tweet the following text: Follow … >
Warner Bros. Pictures has revealed a brand new one sheet poster for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, featuring Sherlock star Martin Freeman.
Compared with the attention paid to the more well-known attempts by his Star Trek co-star William Shatner to forge some kind of musical career (through the medium of proclaiming songs, rather than by singing them), Leonard Nimoy’s pop sensibilities have been all but overlooked. Hearing this trippy 1960s tribute to the diminutive hero of The … >
The long-awaited arrival of Avengers Assemble in cinemas next week has prompted the biggest outbreak of YouTube mashing-up since somebody noticed that because Darth Vader wears a helmet, dialogue from anything in the history of the world will fit if dubbed over the top. Here, the syncing isn’t quite as good as that, but it’s … >
When Gollum from the Lord of the Rings series won the award for Best Virtual Performance at the 2003 MTV Movie Awards, people might have been forgiven for not expecting Frodo’s animatedly insane running mate and nemesis to turn up to collect the gong himself. Even if anyone had foreseen such an occurrence, they definitely … >
Sky Atlantic have announced that Marton Csokas (The Debt) will play the lead role in their new drama series, Falcón.
‘You’re one of the conspiracy lot, aren’t you?’
Combining Sherlock and Doctor Who isn’t all that difficult, a cynic might say; Steven Moffat has already done it by having basically the same conclusions to Series 2 of the former and Series 6 of the latter.
But we’re not cynical, so we don’t believe that at all – and it’s our wide-eyed lack of cynicism which probably explains why we love the heartfelt, fannish devotion which has gone into the making of this Wholock trailer for ‘The Fall’….
‘I cannot tell you why my ship withstood the power of that gun unless you tell me the principles it was built on.’
How much time Babelcolour spends adding colour, frame by frame, to 1960s episodes of Doctor Who, we don’t even want to think about. All we want is for him to keep doing it, because the examples in this portfolio of clips are spellbinding.
Seeing William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and the gang transported from monochrome mediocrity to glorious Technicolor isn’t a rarity on YouTube, but seeing it done this well certainly is.
‘The hobbits, the hobbits, the hobbits, the hobbits …’
At one time, this was – in a deliberately cheap and tacky way – the funniest thing the internet ever invented. If, by some miracle, you haven’t seen it yet, then approach with caution. You will never be able to watch The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers in the same way again.
‘Wall-E…?’
The trailer for Prometheus – Ridley Scott’s Alien-prequel-that-isn’t-actually-an-Alien-prequel-but-it’s-set-in-the-same-universe-and-yeah-it’s-about-the-creatures-that-left-the-big-ship-in-Alien-but-there’s-no-Ripley-stop-asking-me-about-Alien-for-God’s-sake – is one of the most intriguing of the teasers for this year’s movie blockbusters.
How can it be improved? By adding a much-loved cartoon figure, of course. It’s like eating ham and custard creams at the same time: it shouldn’t work but it does.
‘Oh my God, I don’t think I can go on. This is so emotional that I’m getting a stalk-on.’
At the tail-end of the 1990s, Tom Baker was trying to record the voiceover for a radio commercial for a furniture company. Struggling against a dismal script about ‘the passion of retail’ the former Doctor Who star begins to ramble, swear and be generally about a million times more entertaining than the advert could ever have hoped to be.