The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Blu-ray)
While all of The Lord of the Rings films received Oscar nominations for Best Picture, The Hobbit Trilogy hasn’t lived up to those achievements, but nonetheless, had its moments despite obvious flaws. With The Battle of the Five Armies, we are now at the end of Peter Jackson’s odyssey. Unlike The Lord of the Rings […]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug – Extended Edition (3D Blu-ray)
Editor’s Notes: Portions of this review also appear in our coverage of the previous Blu-ray release of ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.’ Picking up where An Unexpected Journey left off, just after their escape from a pack of Orcs, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), Gandalf the Grey (Sir Ian McKellen), and a band of dwarves […]
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Blu-ray)
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, the second film in Peter Jackson’s prequel to The Lord of the Rings, is beginning to show the strain of the director’s determination to stretch the adventure into three books. While still enjoyable, Smaug has difficulty maintaining the fantasy for its 161 minute runtime, finding it necessary to resort […]
The World’s End (Blu-ray)
The World’s End, the latest effort from director Edgar Wright and his crazy buddies Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, is the final film in the self-titled Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy that includes Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Loosely themed genre parodies—zombies and buddy cop flicks—this is not a trilogy in the traditional sense. […]