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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Movie Review

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a 2012 fantasy adventure film directed by Peter Jackson. It is the first of a three-part film adaptation of the 1937 novel The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien to be followed by The Desolation of Smaug and There and Back Again, due for theatrical release in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Set in Middle-earth sixty years before The Lord of the Rings, the story tells of the hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), who is coerced by the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) to accompany thirteen…

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John Carter 2012 Movie

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John Carter is a fictional character, created by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who appears in the Barsoom series of novels. Though actually a Virginian from Earth and a visitor to Mars, he is often referred to as “John Carter of Mars” in reference to the general setting in which his deeds are recorded. The first issue was written between July and September 28, 1911, it was serialized as Under the Moons of Mars in the February to July 1912 issues of the magazine All-Story and first published in book form in…

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