Ian McKellen Archive
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‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’: Three’s the charm
Posted on December 18, 2014 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com And so it comes to an end – again. Some might argue that, having taken the dense “Lord of the Rings” trilogy and condensed it into three monumental films, […] -
Week in Film: ‘X-Men,’ ‘Love Punch,’ ‘Words and Pictures’
Posted on May 22, 2014 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com If you’re keeping score at home, of the three Marvel comic-book movies so far this summer (a term I use advisedly for a season that technically doesn’t start for […] -
‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on December 7, 2012 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com My heart sank when I heard that Peter Jackson, having already made the greatest fantasy trilogy of all time in “The Lord of the Rings,” was going back to […] -
‘Coriolanus,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine
Posted on November 30, 2011 | No CommentsHollywoodandFine.com Never a popular part of the Shakespeare canon, “Coriolanus” (opening in limited released Friday, 12/2/11) bears a peculiar timeliness, in the muscular directorial debut by Ralph Fiennes. Fiennes directed […]