Walking, Talking and Orc-King… ‘Rings’ marks out its alliances…
As Queen Regent Míriel has visions of the end of Númenor and reveals to Galadriel that her arrival marks the beginning of a prophesy playing out, it seems that the … Read More
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Middle-earth, Wind and Ire: Amazon’s ‘Rings’ explores its heritage…
Though Galadriel and Halbrand may have escaped a watery fate, their ‘rescuers’ seem to have serious issues with their very presence, though it leads to some interesting historical revelations. Elsewhere … Read More
Look Who’s Tolkien: ‘Rings of Power’ has elegance, intrigue… and exposition
It is the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before the stories and quests that will unfold in the stories of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. … Read More
Good, not great ‘Samaritan’: Stallone’s superhero’ movie is decent urban fable…
On a fateful night decades ago the hero of Granite City, the superhero known as Samaritan faced his twin brother, the rabble-rouser known as Nemesis in a final showdown and … Read More
Brawn Again: Amazon’s ‘Reacher’ works better at close range…
When a bloody body is found at a nearby underpass, the sleepy town of Margrave, Georgia is ill-prepared for what – and who – will follow. Jack Reacher – a … Read More
All that Jazz: Everything counts for ‘Bosch’ at the thin blue finish line…
When a New Year’s Eve arson attack leaves an immigrant family dead, the press label the youngest victim the ‘the little tamale girl’. But to Harry Bosch she has a … Read More