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 […]
Blu-ray Review: The Hobbit – An Unexpected Journey
Director Peter Jackson has returned to Middle Earth with co-writers Fran Walsh and Philippa Boyens to bring J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit to the big screen over the course of three films. Certainly, the question of whether a 310 page novel needs three films is a fair one, as we consider the first offering in the […]
Blu-ray Review: The Three Musketeers (2011)
The Three Musketeers based on the 1844 Alexandre Dumas novel, has long been a Hollywood favorite. There are over twenty adaptations of the story, including The Three Musketeers starring Douglas Fairbanks, Disney’s The Three Musketeers and The Musketeer, which added Asian fighting to the mix. Now, Paul W. S. Anderson, the man behind Event Horizon, […]
The Lord of the Rings The Motion Picture Trilogy Launch Celebration
Burbank, Calif., June 17, 2011 — On June 28, Warner Home Video will release all three of Peter Jackson’s visual masterpieces on Blu-ray in a 15-disc stunning collection entitled The Lord of the Rings™ The Motion Picture Trilogy: Extended Edition. To celebrate the occasion, Warner Home Video has announced a count-down to “Middle-earth Midnight Madness” […]