Dion and Brian stand (or at least sit) corrected on the screenwriters of The Big Sleep and the director of Double Indemnity, and proceed to shallowly plumb the depths of the Copenhagen Zoo giraffe-killing controversy and this year’s Winter Olympics. Plus, having just seen the film adaptation of Ender’s Game, Brian’s got a bee in his bonnet […]
Posts Tagged ‘Peter Jackson’
Several of the Most Absurdest Things in the World
Posted: 16th February 2014 by Podwits Administrator in PodcastTags: Billy Wilder, Don John, Earthsea, Ender's Game, Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within, Get Off My Lawn, J.R.R. Tolkien, James Bond, Jeroen Krabbe, Leigh Brackett, Lord of the Rings, Orson Scott Card, Peter Jackson, Racefail, Raymond Chandler, Robocop, Sabotage, Sam Worthington, The Big Sleep, The Empire Strikes Back, The Hobbit, The Last Airbender, The Punisher, The Shining, Ursula K. Le Guin, Watchmen, William Faulkner, Winter Olympics, World War Z, Zack Snyder
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Posted: 17th December 2012 by Podwits Administrator in Film, Film ReviewTags: Cate Blanchet, Christopher Lee, Gollum, Hugo Weaving, Ian McKellen, J.R.R. Tolkien, Martin Freeman, Peter Jackson, The Hobbit
Review by Luke Whitmire The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey takes place sixty years before the events of The Lord of the Rings. The Rings trilogy was a dynamic, pulsating fantasy story that roused audiences, and changed the landscape for epic spectacles. A brief history: The Hobbit, or There and Back Again—better known by its abbreviated […]
Science!!!
Posted: 15th December 2012 by Podwits Administrator in PodcastTags: Alan Alda, Back To The Future, Bob Gale, Flame Challenge, Peter Jackson, Spider-Man, The Asylum, The Hobbit
Yes, with visions of Thomas Dolby dancing in their heads, Dion and Brian chew over Alan Alda’s Flame Challenge II, the Asylum’s laughable defense of their Hobbit knockoff, film and TV writers “slumming it” in comic books, and all manners of other whatnot and frippery. The Podwits Podcast: laughing in the face of the Mayan Apoca>BOOM<
The Bum Rap The Adventures of Tintin Received
Posted: 13th April 2012 by Dion in Film, Film Review, NewsTags: Adventures of Tintin, Andy Serkis, Daniel Craig, Indiana Jones, Jamie Bell, Mackenzie Crook, Motion Capture, Nick Frost, Peter Jackson, Robert Rodriguez, Robert Zemeckis, Simon Pegg, Sin City, Steven Spielberg, Tintin, Toby Jones
This week I finally had the pleasure of watching the screen adaptation of Herge’s The Adventures of Tintin, and I really can’t believe how much I enjoyed it. I’d been waiting for it to be released for over a year-and-a-half, after hearing the exciting news that Steven Spielberg would helm the project, teaming up with […]