Top 10 Fantasy Movies!

Packed with movie posters and trailers: Top 10 fantasy movies, with special mentions and family movies. Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Constantine and more…

Only Connect: The Naming of Things: Part One

I’ve been painting most nights: acrylics, layer upon layer, broadly expressionist, abstract, intimate. But one thing troubles me: what do I call the paintings? You’d think it would be simple, but the ‘naming of things’ is not to be undertaken lightly. With its immediacy a painting seems to be different to a book, or a piece of music, and not …

The Hobbit: New Trailer

Really sorry, I couldn’t resist this. Here’s the new Hobbit trailer just released to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the book’s publication in 1937. I first read Tolkein’s quiet epic of high fantasy when I was nine. I don’t think I understood much of it until I read it again a couple of years later, but I remember loving …

The Hobbit: Movie Trailer

The Hobbit. Can’t wait. I know I’ll cringe at the obvious hobbit prosthetics, but I also know I’ll be sucked in by that Peter Jackson magic. I hope the journey under the mountain doesn’t take too long! Just seen Jackson’s press announcement that the Hobbit will be a trilogy!