In heaven they watch the Lord of the Rings film trilogy; in hell they watch The Hobbit.

On Twitter, Todd VanDerWerff suggested that all the documentary footage was faked by Stanley Kubrick.

So far the show is pretty good - not groundbreaking but compulsively watchable. By far the most fascinating element is seeing the America of Andy Griffith and Ella Fitzgerald, in some ways still recognizably itself, turned into a bastion of Nazism. The level of detail is impeccable. Some of the twists are predictable,…

The writers of Return of the Jedi were planning to kill off Han Solo until Lucas decided he wanted the movie to be more triumphant and upbeat. In the process he created one of cinema's great missed opportunities.

consider yourself blessed. I saw a dozen dwarves try to defeat a dragon by pouring molten gold on him, and can never unsee it.

I'm glad this is happening, as I thought the original lacked an essential time-travel element.

I'm not a huge fan of the prequel trilogy (I'm more of a LOTR fans than a Star Wars fan), but I have to admit that the prequels were loads better than any of the Hobbit movies.

"so much death. what can men do against such reckless hate?"

Luckily for us, he's too busy doing American Gods

I maintain that we have Cuaron to thank for saving the Potter franchise.

Gilliam was Rowling's first choice to direct Philosopher's Stone, but the studio thought he was too eccentric.

Lord of the Rings, Terrence Malick. Richard Linklater's Harry Potter

Pixar wants to combine the magic of Toy Story with the magic of Boyhood because they haven't gleaned enough of our tears yet apparently.

I remember being so confused by that fact the first three or four times I watched this. It didn't help that she had an identical twin sister, so I kept wondering if maybe the movie was switching them out and not telling us.

I don't think I really understood this movie when I first watched it a decade ago. This summer I watched it again, with a better understanding of Japanese mythology, and fell in love. It's easily as good as Spirited Away, and may even be better.

the land of Ooo

odds that his pitch will be better than whatever movie ends up getting greenlit…..

this actually sounds pretty cool. not the movie, probably, but the series of graphic novels on which it is based.

this sounds like a line from a Belle & Sebastian song

as a child I was terrified of ET because of a recurring dream in which he lured me into the back yard and tickled me under the arms.