Peter Jackson

Vikingdom Trembles With Great Dumb Joy

Pleasure in the Rubble: Why the Summer's Last, Smallest Blockbuster Was Its Best

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters Is Just a Sleepy PG Adventure

Reading Around: Fantasies, Tamed and Not

Elizabeth Hand's Errantry, Jon Peterson's history of Dungeons & Dragons and role-playing games

The 2012 Voice Film Critics' Poll

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How Much of The Hobbit Can You Read During the Running Time of The Hobbit?

With the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Peter Jackson has given the world 162 minutes of imaginative visions never before realized on a movie screen, save for those in Jackson's previous 12 hours of Middle Earth adventures. It's not bad; it's just stubbornly pokey and almost never gran ... More >>

The Hobbit: Slouching Toward Erebor

Getting neither there nor back again

Hello I Must Be Going

Still Hell in West Memphis: No Happy Endings in Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Year in Film: 10 to Watch Out for in 2011

The Mad Decent Block Party, PG-13, And Wheel Up Headline Your Weekend In Nightlife

We'll get it out of the way early: This weekend is all about Saturday's Mad Decent Block Party. And even though we think Diesel is responsible for the worst marketing campaign of all time, you should drop by tonight's in-store pre-party anyway. From 5 to 7 p.m., saucy rapper Maluca tries her hand ... More >>

New York City Health Department Continues its Gross-Out Anti-Soda Campaign

Because those still photographs of yellow, vein-streaked fat pouring out of a soda bottle were apparently too subtle, the New York Health Department has decided to drive its point home a little more forcefully. [Via Daily Intel]

This Week in the Voice

​Like to gamble online? Political odd couples like Barney Frank and Al D'Amato are fighting for your right to do so. Meanwhile James Giordano made millions via internet gambling, and wound up in prison. So... do you feel lucky? Graham Rayman has the story. Tom Robbins has previously covered t ... More >>

Dead-Alive

Aliens as Apartheid Metaphor in District 9

Devil May Care About Hellboy II

Big Red returns in a mindless, revved-up sequel

THE KING OF KONGS

The Eighth Wonder of the World still reigns

Legend Has It

That old 'last man on earth' setup? It really works.

When Mutant Mutton Attack

Ewe better watch out (and other puns)

Bob Shaye's New Line

Everyone's favorite money-minting, Hobbit-crushing movie mogul taps into his inner child

Oh My Goth! The Second Coming—With Special Gothguest Jon DeRosa

Just Released: Something More Addicting Than MySpace!

Rack Focus

Why You Will Never Take Ambien Again

Planet of the Ape

RKO's grabby gorilla loses his animal magnetism amid Peter Jackson's F/X excess

Lucky King Kong Is Digital

Activists say all Hollywood apes should be

Xbox Makes Us Dance

Xbox 360 Games That Are the Shit

Geek Rapture: Nine Games Bordering on Nirvana

Why Xbox 360 Is the Shit

Slump Fiction

Hollywood's real moneymakers yet to come

Film

Two Tiny Ways to Spend Time

Man Your Battle Stations

Conceptually inclined emo kids' seriously absurd prog-metal fantasies hit the big time

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

NY Mirror

Where the Boys Are

Girl talk with Lord of the Rings screenwriter Philippa Boyens

How Are the Corgis?

Forget Tolkien: When it comes to figuring out the British royals, turn to Peake

Lost in America

Bill Murray's Star Vehicle, Gus Van Sant's Double Comeback, and the Year of the Documentary

Final Fantasy

Conclusions of grandeur: Peter Jackson's opus hobbitus goes out in a blaze of digital glory

Precious, Precious Movie License Slogs to Mordor, Torpor

Film

Vice City

Arda, or Ardor

••• Getting to the Root of Tolkien’s Tongues

Plastic Fantastic

Hobbit Forming

Fanboys Line Up for ‘Ring’-Side Seats

I Lost It at the Movies

Unheavenly Creatures

The War of the Rings