I won’t lie; I’m not the biggest X-men fan. It’s not that I dislike the movies, I just never really had a comic book interest to sustain my curiosity. I saw the first film and didn’t think much of it, then the third, and again, wasn’t overly impressed, finally X-men Origins: […]

This December marks the release of Peter Jackson’s ‘Desolation of Smaug’, Or The Hobbit Part II. Admittedly this is set to be the film of the festive season, but given it is Christmas time, when frantic materialism often clouds the true meaning of the season, it seems only right we […]

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. The opening passages of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit introduced us to Bilbo Baggins, a middle-aged hobbit from the Shire. Most people watching Peter Jackson’s The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey have probably seen the Lord of the Rings films, and so […]