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Locarno 2016 Interview: Howard Shore Talks His Career and Lifelong Collaborations
Honoured at the 69th edition of Locarno Film Festival, Howard Shore attended the Swiss event to receive his lifetime award and to introduce a few screenings. ScreenAnarchy was offered the chance to talk to him about his impressive career and...
Trung Rwo's Top 10 Worst Movies of 2014
Is it too late for a list like this? Even if so, I still decided to make a list of some films that I never want to see again. Similar to last year, these films may not necessarily bad, but they're...
Destroy All Monsters: The 2-Hour Version Of THE HOBBIT
I'm sure someone is fan-editing this even as I type, but since it's a slow week and since no one alive would actually want to watch a two-hour speculative video composed entirely of content we've already seen in eight-plus hours...
Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: THE HOBBIT And HFR, Part 3 - One Last Time
With the close of Peter Jackson's latest foray to Middle Earth, the final film in The Hobbit trilogy also marks another time of reflection upon one of its more interesting and controversial aspects. Jackson's decision to capture and present the...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks HOBBIT and THE INTERVIEW
Peter Jackson finally brings his Middle Earth saga close with the missing piece, that keystone film that both closes the Hobbit tale and ties directly into Lord Of The Rings.Plus, extensive discussion of Rogen/Goldberg's The Interview, including talk of the...
Destroy All Monsters: The Lessons Of THE HOBBIT
As an exercise in Hollywood franchise-making in the 21st century, Peter Jackson's The Hobbit is fantastically instructive. The final film in the cycle emerges today -- I've yet to see it; you can read Jason Gorber's review here-- but long...
Hobbitty ScreenAnarchyes: Our Favorite Film Dragons
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is now in cinemas all over half the world, an will soon arrive in the other half as well. And for those who saw the end of The Hobbit: The Desolation of...
The Many Faces Of Sir Ian McKellen (+Prize!)
I'll be stepping in for my colleague Ard Vijn this week, in an effort to get a fix for my Hobbit habit. Brace for bombastics!Smaug was believed to be the last great fire-drake of the North. If others remain they...
Review: THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES, An Epic Poem
Rarely in cinema history has the notion of a journey there and back again been more aptly applied. Yes, the culmination of Peter Jackson & co.'s vast epic comes in an episode titled The Battle of the Five Armies,...
The Stack: Holiday Gift Guide 2014, Warner Home Entertainment Part 1
Last Tuesday I kicked off the 2014 Gift Guide with the beginning of my look at Scream Factory's output for the year. But before we launch into episode two of that, I also wanted to highlight that we'll be covering...
Leave Sauron To Saruman In The Final Trailer For THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
The stage and stakes are set. The characters and conflicts established. All that remains is for the complex climax of competing wills - and armies - to play themselves out. Word is that the final installment in Peter Jackson's cinematic Middle-Earth...
Fan Expo 2014 Exclusive Interview: Elijah Wood Talks Film, Fans, And More
Not surprisingly, Elijah Wood is a lovely guy. He's a film geek at heart, as passionate about the medium as anyone reading this site. He's made small budget indie films and some of the biggest productions ever made, but...
New Poster And First Teaser For THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
At long last it's here! The teaser trailer for The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies (that screened twice at the San Diego Comic-Con panel on Saturday) is now online.And even if you have watched it already, why not...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks WALTER MITTY, WOLF OF WALL STREET, HOBBIT, HER And More
Got a chance to finally see see Ben Stiller's latest, an interesting if highly flawed take on the Mitty narrative. Also further opportunity to express disappointment in Grudge Match, try to make sense of Wolf of Wall Street's ambivalent audiences,...
Jason Gorber's Cineruminations: THE HOBBIT and HFR, Part 2 - The Journey Continues
Just over a year ago, I wrote an article trying to delve into the vagaries of the form of cinematic presentation that Peter Jackson chose for his Hobbit trilogy. At the time, there was already much consternation and gnashing of...
Destroy All Monsters: Why We Ship
While watching Peter Jackson's The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, I had a moment of total clarity regarding why the people who don't really "get it" with these movies don't get it. A dwarf was talking to an elf in...
AnarchyVision: Jason Gorber Talks HOBBIT, MR. BANKS, and Peter O'Toole
Today marks the loss of one of the greatest actors in Hollywood history, who rocketed to fame in one of the finest films ever made. O'Toole's Lawrence may tower over his other films, but with seven other Oscar noms and...
THE HOBBIT in HFingR: An Unexpected Journey To The Glory Of 48fps
At ScreenAnarchy we like to write not just about films, but about film. One excellent example, of many, is Matt Brown's regular and incessantly thought-provoking column, "Destroy All Monsters," which tackles myriad cinematic topics that, well, make him twitch. My...
Review: THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG, A Hell Of A Ride
When last year's The Hobbit - An Unexpected Journey hit, I addressed the central question being asked by most fans of the Lord of the Rings films: "How could something so relatively slight, an explicitly childish work that's little more...
The Stack: THE HOBBIT Extended Version, TANK GIRL, RUSSIAN ARK, And More
This episode brings us up to date with our releases through November 26. The mix of old and new is exhilarating. The absolutely breathtaking Russian Ark makes its Blu-ray debut. Hannah Arendt does as well, telling the story of the woman...
