Tagged The Lord of the Rings

The idea of visitors from other worlds is one of the oldest in all of science fiction, but Denis Villeneuve's new film Arrival is one of the very few that poses a genuinely thorny problem: how would we...

The last of his kind. That was how Tim Burton described Sir Christopher Lee last week after the actor passed away at the age of 93. Of course, it is perhaps fair to say that Sir Christopher was the only one of...

If anything can be learned from Peter Jackson’s celebrated trilogy of J.R.R. Tolkien’s most famous work, it is that one does not simply adapt a 1200-page novel for the big screen overnight. The road to the...