Peter Jackson

The 2012 Village Voice Film Critic's Poll

Movies are alive in the Age of McConaughey.

7 Songs About Hobbits NOT By Leonard Nimoy

I'm keen to catch The Hobbit soon. If nothing else, the Seventh Doctor apparently goes full-on wizard battle against the Witch-King in it, and I would have paid just to see that scene alone. The rest of it looks cool too, though. In the meantime, I have to wait for an overnight babysitter to free u ... More >>

Slouching Toward Erebor

The Hobbit gets neither there nor back again.

The Length of a Song Should Not Dictate the Length of Its Music Video

I review a lot of music videos here on Rocks Off because I remain completely fascinated with them, since the days when I was a kid glued to MTV trying as hard as I could to understand exactly what was the meaning behind Metallica's "Unforgiven." I still believe that short musical films are the best ... More >>

Boy Reporter, Back for New Adventures

What's lost in translation, and what's gained, as Tintin goes from page to screen.

Pop Rocks: Anyone Else Underwhelmed By The Hobbit Trailer?

Can Peter Jackson top this? I doubt it.​The trailer for The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey dropped like Boromir after taking a few Uruk-hai arrows yesterday. The first of Peter Jackson's two-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's prequel to the Lord of the Rings trilogy doesn't hit theaters until ... More >>

Pop Rocks: 10 Things Comic Con 2011 Taught Us

Steven Spielberg presents...​The 2011 Comic Con wrapped up last weekend. Over 120,000 of the geeky, nerdy, attention starved, and Twilight-headed descended upon sunny San Diego last weekend for what has become the entertainment industry's premiere showcase for anything related to comics, video ... More >>

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King Extended Edition

Another Year

2010 is old news. Here are ten to watch out for in 2011.

Come See My Dead Person Gives Rocks Off A Spelling Lesson

Come See My Dead Person​Each Wednesday, Rocks Off arbitrarily appoints one lucky local performer or group "Artist of the Week," bestowing upon them all the fame and grandeur such a lofty title implies. Know a band or artist that isn't awful? Email their particulars to sheaserrano@gmail.com. ... More >>

Lonesome Onry and Mean: The Disturbing Ballad of Bob Woodruff, Part 3

Michelle Manteris​In the first two installments of LOM's blog about vanished country music performer Bob Woodruff - see them here and here - we learned of his heroin addiction and the help he received in kicking the habit. We also learned how his career, which many thought would be huge, disintegr ... More >>

Divide and Conquer

Alien invasion as apartheid metaphor? It works in District 9.

Lonesome Onry and Mean: The Disturbing Ballad of Bob Woodruff, Part 2

Note: Read Part 1 here.​In 1994, Bob Woodruff was a hot Nashville property. He was New Jersey rocker who suddenly began to pour out great country songs, which lead to a deal with Asylum Records in Nashville and a well-received album, Dreams and Saturday Nights. But Woodruff eventually left Asylum ... More >>

Heaven Can Wait

Hell is much more fun. Sam Raimi is back with Drag Me to Hell.

Summer of Salvation

The Terminator is back. Plus lots of other movies we can't wait to see this season.

Dead Alive

Web exclusive!

Devil May Care for Hellboy II: The Golden Army

Big Red returns in a mindless, revved-up sequel

I Am Legend

That old "last man on earth" setup? It really works

Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead

This horror flick recounts the night of the living McNugget

Black Sheep

Ewe better watch out (and other puns)

The Last Mimzy

Movie mogul taps into his inner child

The Short Goodbye

Hero with a Thousand Faces

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion earns our highest score

Kid Stuff for Parents

Hollywood Halo

Texas teens turn video games into movies and get millions of hits

Monkey Business

Peter Jackson spares no expense for a Kong that's just too long

Love the Sin

Home Wreckers on DVD

G'Dead, Mate

Zombies rise again, this time from down under

Ring It In

The Houston Museum of Natural Science unveils one exhibit to rule them all

Dead Good

Shaun of the Dead revives the zombie comedy with a U.K. twist

Days of Future Passed

Sky Captain zooms back to a tomorrow that never was

George of the Bungle

Michael Moore goes Bushwacking in Fahrenheit 9/11

Monster Makeover

Van Helsing explodes movie legends with hip upgrades

Ringing from the Rooftops

Microcinema International gets political

Bow Down

The Return of the King rules

Depp's of the Sea

In Johnny and the crew's slick and handsome Pirates of the Caribbean, more is somehow less

Dead to Rights

Danny Boyle gets his mojo back in the dig-vid zombie flick 28 Days Later

Year of the Woman

The big-screen dames of cinema 2003 will keep you watching

Old News

Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded a good harvest

Orc Chops

The action's much meatier in Jackson's second Rings film

Gutless Politicians

Plus: Med Center Madness?, Cover Convicts, Force of Hobbit

Talkin' Tolkien

Who has the right to write about the lord of the Ring's fictional tongues?

In the Baggins

We're off to see the wonderful wizards of The Lord of the Rings

Damsels in Distress

Five suburban maidens face the music in Sophia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides

It's Topps!

In Mars Attacks!, Tim Burton turns his ray gun on everything in sight

Spirited

Little Women, Big Film

Louisa May Alcott's classic novel makes another classic movie

Letters

Friends and Fantasy

Adolescent girls, murder, a kingdom of dreams: these are the ties that bind