Director Peter Jackson on his last Tolkien movie, his favourite villain—and why his kids haven’t read Lord of the Rings
Canadians can celebrate a foreign-language nomination for ‘War Witch’ and music nods for ‘Life of Pi’ composer Michael Danna
From Don Cherry mastery of Twitter, to the U.S. no longer being able to pay its bills
Both Bilbo Baggins and FDR are portrayed with panache, but the movies? Not so much.
3D hits the wall with ‘The Hobbit’; a limping Murray makes a fine FDR but the movie is lame
A strong late entry in the “significant word of 2009” sweepstakes would be the noun and verb “conlang”. A conlang is any consciously constructed language; familiar examples include “auxlangs” developed in earnest for international use, like Esperanto, but the hot new conlang is the tongue developed for the giant soft-porn Smurfs in James Cameron’s Avatar by business professor and linguist Paul Frommer.