I don’t usually do Top 10 Tuesday posts. I have on occasion, but it is by no means a regular thing. It is run by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic caught my attention. If you like this book then you’ll like that book. I’ve done something similar on my booktube channel in…
Release Date: 12/17/2014 Dir. Peter Jackson Starring: Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins), Ian McKellan (Gandalf), Richard Armitage (Thorin Oakenshield), Lee Pace (Thranduil), Luke Evans (Bard), Orlando Bloom (Legolas Greenleaf), Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel), Aidan Turner (Kili), Ryan Gage (Alfrid), Billy Connolly (Dain), Manu Bennett (Azog the Defiler), Benedict Cumberbatch (Smaug/ Necromancer), Slyvester McCoy (Radagast), Cate Blanchett (Galadriel),…
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I’ve written a lot about adaptations. There are so many feelings that an adaptation due to its conversion from on medium to another. It’s often hard for a succeeding medium to surpass the original in quality. Then there is a unique situation in which a person comes to a story and it isn’t the original…
Release Date: 12/13/2013 Dir. Peter Jackson Starring: Martin Freeman (Bilbo Baggins), Ian McKellan (Gandalf), Richard Armitage (Thorin Oakenshield), Orlando Bloom (Legolas), Evangeline Lilly (Tauriel), Lee Pace (Thranduil), Benedict Cumberbatch (Smaug), Luke Evans (Bard) The second installment of The Hobbit Trilogy, entitled The Desolation of Smaug, brought thrills, but somehow managed to lose a bit of…
Short post today, but with the release of The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, I felt a strong affinity to my beloved Fantasy genre. I’ve been thinking recently about why everything I seem to love most is entirely escapist. My addiction to media only stands to support my lack of interest in reality as we…
Before moving to Austin, I had been in many movie theatres. My favorites were, by far, AMC Loews theatres. Regal theatres just never did it for me. They always felt shabby, but AMC theatres were cleaner, bigger, and often had more options. They even opened a fancy dine-in AMC. Then I moved to Austin. My…
So, I pondered... 