‘The Hobbit’: A Good (Enough) Return to Middle Earth

Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey has been in theaters for a decade already, yet I still felt the need to comment on the nearly-three-hour-long film. Bilbo and his gang of dwarves have been getting a fair-share of flack since the movie’s release and some of that is justified, but some of it isn’t.…

Bret McKenzie Heads to the Shire for ‘The Hobbit’

Filthy little hobbitses! Former Flight of the Conchords funnyman Bret McKenzie has signed on to co-star in Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit, which is excellent news for geeks fans of Flight and Hobbits! McKenzie is going to play an elf of some sort. Cool. The Hobbit finally started filming (excellent!), as you can see from this…