The Desolation of Jackson? A review of the Hobbit: the...
Let ‘forge the golden dwarf’, join ‘jump the shark’, and ‘nuke the fridge’ in our lexicon for describing...
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Thomas Monteath critiques An Unexpected Journey
The Hobbit would be better subtitled ‘Great Expectations’ rather than ‘An Unexpected Journey’, given the spectacular triple-act it...
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The Hobbit trilogy: connecting the dots and filling the blanks
This essay presents an argument for the likely structure and content of the Hobbit film trilogy, with particular...
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Playing Sherlock: a few Hobbit plot deductions from the figurine...
Since the Hobbit film trilogy began shooting principal photography 18 months ago, the production has played its very...
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