While I love the great Tolkien books and am still amazed at the accomplishment of Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings trilogy — a film powerhouse that’s raked in almost three billion dollars worldwide — I have to be candid that I was not as thrilled with The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. That’s the first part of a trilogy based on J.R.R.Tolkien’s book that introduced us to Middle Earth and its epic battles between the…Read More
Review: The Three Musketeers
The Alexander Dumas book The Three Musketeers is one of the most exciting books of its era and still offers a thrilling adventure with the coming-of-age tale of D’Artagnon leaving home to join up with the fabled Musketeers, acting in the service of King Louis XIII against the evil Cardinal Richelieu. Sword fights, treachery, beautiful women, honor, it’s a truly epic tale. Which is why it’s been adapter to cinema again and again, with predictably mixed…Read More
Review: Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
It’s a cinematic rule of thumb: the further into a series, the worse the film. There are a lot of reasons for this but the primary is that the first film in a series always introduces the characters, the world they inhabit, and the basic tension between them. In the Pirates of the Caribbean series, we first met Johnny Depp’s memorable Captain Jack Sparrow in The Curse of the Black Pearl, and it was a…Read More
Join DaveOnFilm for an epic ‘Lord of the Rings’ event!
This is pretty awesomely cool, film fans! NCM Fathom is going to be showing The Lord of the Rings Extended Edition Trilogy at a bunch of theaters throughout the US for one night only on the big screen, one movie per week for three weeks, late in June. They’re going to be shown at a bunch of places, but in the interest of us all having a midpoint where we can meet and watch this…Read More