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The Lord of the Rings will go down as one of the greatest movie trilogies in history, and this year Peter Jackson’s follow-up trilogy The Hobbit will be coming to a close as well. The movies are tremendously detailed and, at least with the Lord of the Rings trilogy, incredibly faithful to the books. Obviously, there are some omissions and additions, but particularly with the extended editions, the

Comic books and music. Two things that are widely and wildly consumed by people the world over. Musicians read comics, sometimes they write comics.

Musicians delight and fascinate us with their antics both on and off stage. Unfortunately, the “sex, drugs and rock n’ roll” lifestyle often comes with a

When you’re an artist, you can’t really tell when inspiration will strike or what shape it will take. It might happen over dinner or on your way to work,

We get a certain pleasure from the basic movie formula, where our main character meets adversity or intrigue, struggles against it, and eventually overcomes that problem, hopefully a little wiser. But that enjoyment can be shortlived when you realize there never should have been a problem in the first place…

Gotta love cameos. Any film that’s willing to overpay a big name just to get a little bit of recognition from the audience is okay in our book. And here are some of the best.

I love the horror movie genre. It is one of my favorite types of movies to watch, but the only way to properly watch a good horror movie is alone, or with

Books were those treats you could have before bedtime. They sat waiting for you quietly on the shelf and they might well have been the very things that taught

The problem with the level of worship people show for celebrities is that when they inevitably reveal that they are just regular people by, say, dying… some of their fans just can’t handle it.

The newspaper industry is a dying model. And nothing shows quite how dated ol’ “ink-and-paper” can be than the old strips that adorn the comics page. Now