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While we at the Clog could go on for days assigning the fictional places to real ones on campus, we decided it might be more fun to imagine what the beloved Tolkien characters would be doing if they attended UC Berkeley.
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“The House with a Clock in Its Walls” is a pure delight: sweet and overly indulgent, propelled by a strong sense of 1950s nostalgia and joy. While you may feel a little bloated by the end, who cares when you had so much fun stuffing your face getting there?
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“War” has every right to be confident — it is the best trilogy finale since “Toy Story 3,” maybe even since “The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.”
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Oh, if those sangria lovers and Francophiles only knew what they were missing in beautiful New Zealand when planning their getaway.
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“Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” director Peter Jackson appears to have finally finished making film renditions of J. R. R. Tolkien’s classic epic novels. “The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies,” the final installment in the film adaptations, focuses on real-world issues such as xenophobia, racism and capitalism
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Disney movies have long featured, by way of beginning a story, an overwhelming spectacle, overawing the audience with the sweeping visual brilliance of those first 10 minutes. They have always understood that awe must act on us in our first impression of a film, and everything afterward will relax in
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“Beowulf,” “The Odyssey,” “Avatar: The Last Airbender” — what do these legendary works all have in common? That’s right, they follow Joseph Campbell’s good ol’ hero’s journey, or monomyth. Unless you are a comparative literature major, you may not have not given serious thought to this pattern since high school English class.
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard from “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and Gandalf from “Lord of the Rings” are coming to Bear country, and no, we’re sorry to say that they are not showing up on the USS Enterprise to protect the Bay Area from Sauron and his legions of orcs (aka
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It’s with a whimper, not a bang that I’ll end this column. There will be no fireworks, no dancing and no Spice Girls reunion atop a fleet of London taxis. Yes, this is my last column. After this week, I vanish into the wilderness of practically anonymous arts criticism. No
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