Jerome and Brian are back! They are no longer discussing superhero movies but looking back at various genres and franchises now.
On this first episode, they go back to one of the most important movie franchises, a trilogy of movies shot all at the same time. On this episode, it starts with the forming of the Fellowship. Get your walking shoes on as we return to Middle Earth. Continue reading Pantheon Plus: The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Ben Phillips & Matt Waters are sick to death of Oscar contenders so have decided to get their spy on instead, examining how the Mission: Impossible, Bourne and James Bond franchises have danced around each other over the years.
William L. Snyder, an American producer, obtained the film rights to J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit and set out to make a feature-length version of the film with the director, Gene Deitch. That project fell through, and this twelve-minute, animated film was produced instead in order to retain the filmmaking rights to the property. As a result, the very first film adaptation of this famous piece of literature is a quite cheap-looking, cartoon (without real animation) that obviously greatly condenses Tolkien’s story. Oddly enough, the cheapness actually works in the film’s favor. Continue reading The Hobbit (1966)