Benedict Cumberbatch
Trailer Trashin’: It’s Elves vs. Dwarves vs. Men in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Hello again, dear readers, and I hope a lot of you enjoyed Thor: The Dark World over the weekend. In the meantime, this week’s Trailer Trashin’ column takes another look at my most anticipated movie of the rest of the year, Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Premise: After successfully crossing over, and under, the Misty Mountains, Thorin (Richard Armitage) and ...[Read More]
Movie Review: 12 Years a Slave
On first encountering the 1853 memoir of Solomon Northup, a free black man drugged and kidnapped from an educated, domestic life by opportunistic slave-traders in Washington D.C., director Steve McQueen felt he had read the “[American version of the Anne Frank story]” – two historical people fated to represent institutionalized evils through very personal words and experiences. Northup, as embodie...[Read More]
Trailer Trashin’: The Dragon Unleashed in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug
Today is a great day, dear readers, because my favorite movie of the year so far, Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, is finally out on DVD and Blu-ray, so everyone who wasn’t able to check it out in theaters will finally have the chance to see it. Also, this Friday finally sees the release of Machete Kills – you can expect my review later this week – and us getting to see whether Ro...[Read More]