Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power review: An epic that needs to go harder

Durin standing in front of a set of double doors with two dwarven guards to the side

Amazon’s The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power arrives on Prime Video this week burdened by outrageously high audience expectations. Not only does the streaming series have to live up to J.R.R. Tolkien’s […]

Rings of Power brings Galadriel’s lost Lord of the Rings story to life

Galadriel sits in contemplation in the woods with her heartthrob companion

“All shall love me and despair.” The line from Peter Jackson’s The Fellowship of the Ring is the apex of Cate Blanchett’s striking turn as the elven sorceress Galadriel. In an instant, all hell seems […]

15 Strange Acting Inspirations Behind Famous Movie And TV Characters

15 Strange Acting Inspirations Behind Famous Movie And TV Characters

Sometimes, a personal experience or a famous person will inspire an actor to create and embody their character with charm and aplomb. Those are the normal, boring times, because ever so often we get to […]

Here’s How to Stream the New ‘Lord of the Rings’ Series for Free – Rolling Stone

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The latest in the ‘Lord of the Rings’ series follows the adventures of the three kingdoms thousands of years before the original trilogy If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link […]

George Miller says ‘Furiosa’ puts new spin on ‘Mad Max’ series

A man and a woman look upset as they sit in a house.

As the follow-up to his groundbreaking “Mad Max: Fury Road,” the high-energy desert chase action movie that won six Oscars, Australian filmmaker George Miller is set to surprise audiences again with “Three Thousand Years of […]

Game of Thrones effect fires up reissues of ‘lost’ fantasy fiction classics | Fantasy books

The Last Unicorn, Peter S Beagle’s 1968 novel, is being reissued in the UK after a long rights battles.

It is a lyrical, beautiful fantasy story about a mythical beast who sets out on a quest into a world that no longer believes in her to find out if she is truly the last […]

Who owns The Lord of the Rings rights? Embracer Group buys in, but it’s not the only player

Concept art from The War of the Rohirrim

Embracer Group, the ambitious, acquisition-hungry Swedish gaming conglomerate, has bought the rights to make films, games, merchandise, and theme parks based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. The deal comes […]

Embracer Group’s game buying spree includes rights to Lord of the Rings and Hobbit

Embracer Group’s game buying spree includes rights to Lord of the Rings and Hobbit

Embracer Group has embarked on an acquisition spree today that includes Limited Run Games, Tripwire Interactive, and the IP rights to Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit. There are five acquisitions in total today, […]

Peter Jackson wants to wipe his mind of Lord of the Rings. He should snap out of it | Movies

Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

Amazon’s new Lord of the Rings project needs to be a success. By some degree the most expensive television series ever made, it will arrive at an incredibly perilous time for the platform. People have […]

STARDUST Is an Argument for Fantasy Lite

Tristan and Yvaine on the Stardust movie poster

If you look at the type of fantasy stories being greenlit for film and television these days, you can see a trend. From Game of Thrones to Shadow and Bone, the industry seemingly prioritizes extensive […]

All the times Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman was almost a movie before Netflix

Dream of the Endless, huge, pale, shock-haired, holds Doctor Destiny in the palm of his hand. “Thank you, John Dee,” he says, in The Sandman Vol. 1, DC Comics (1989).

If you’ve ever thought, Would Patton Oswalt be a good voice for a talking raven? Netflix’s The Sandman is here to answer your question. Whether it answers in the affirmative or the negative is, ultimately, […]

Paper Girls review: the Amazon series takes too long to get fun and weird

Paper Girls review: the Amazon series takes too long to get fun and weird

It doesn’t take long for the Paper Girls comic books to get strange. The series from Brian K. Vaughan and Cliff Chiang starts out with a dream about an astronaut with angel wings and a […]