Now we’re Tolkien! After six glacial hours, The Rings of Power is finally worth watching | The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power

Bronwyn (Nazanin Boniadi) with Arondir (Ismael Cruz Córdova).

Whether you’re a Tolkien obsessive or the sort of dabbler who doesn’t give an Ent’s conker what a Silmarillion is, it’s not hard to see why reactions to The Rings of Power have been … […]

Marvel Studios Shifts ‘Armor Wars’ To Big Screen Format

Marvel Studios Shifts 'Armor Wars' To Big Screen Format

It looks like Marvel Studios is shifting paths on the “Armor Wars” project. In what was originally planned as a new Disney+ miniseries starring Don Cheadle (“Hotel Rwanda,” “Traffic,” “Crash”), who would once again return […]

‘Irish people have faced centuries of discrimination’: why are Lord of the Rings’ accents so offensively bad? | Television

Owain Arthur as Prince Durin IV, a dwarf, in The Rings of Power.

‘What is this, famine cosplay?” asked Ed Power in the Irish Times after glimpsing the harfoots wandering around Middle-earth in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. In the weeks since then, he […]

House of the Dragon and The Rings of Power did the same scene in one week

Galadriel, in a blue dress, stands between two opponents pointing a sword at both of them with something approaching a grin on her face.

Perhaps you have noticed that two of the biggest television shows airing (or streaming) right now are both fantasy epics based on popular novels exploring the time period before a popular previous adaptation. While it […]

George Takei, Amber Midthunder, James Sie, and More Join AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER Cast

Avatar: The Last Airbender, Aang, Katara, Sokka, and Zuko casting

…Then, everything changed when Netflix announced the casting for their upcoming Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA) live-action series. With a world as vast as Avatar: The Last Airbender, many casting announcements are needed to reveal all […]

Sebastião Salgado: ‘I was transformed into an environmentalist’ | Photography

Sebastião Salgado

Over the course of 50 years, the Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado has traveled to more than 120 countries, creating lasting images of events like the Kuwait oil fires and the Rwandan genocide, as well as […]

Watch: UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER And PETER BALTES Perform U.D.O. And ACCEPT Classics In Coesfeld And Copenhagen

Watch: UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER And PETER BALTES Perform U.D.O. And ACCEPT Classics In Coesfeld And Copenhagen

Former ACCEPT bassist Peter Baltes is playing bass for U.D.O., the band fronted by original ACCEPT singer Udo Dirkschneider, on the group’s ongoing European tour. Baltes is filling in for U.D.O.‘s regular bassist Tilen Hudrap […]

The Woman King’s Sheila Atim And The Triumph of Black Dark-Skinned Stars – Deadline

Sheila Atim stars in The Woman King

Sheila Atim marveled that the top four actors listed on the call sheet during filming of Gina Prince-Bythewood’s hot epic The Woman King “are all dark-skinned Black women.” Counting on the fingers of one hand, Atim […]

Will we ever see a Star Wars movie again, or has the saga ditched the big screen for ever? | Star Wars

The Mandalorian.

Students of film history will be well aware that before 1977, and the release of Star Wars, the modern summer blockbuster was very much in its infancy. It could be argued that Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, […]