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74: ‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ Starring Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage

Posted: December 23, 2014 at 4:02 pm   /   Film, Local, Reel Spoilers

This we tackle The Hobbit. Which is good because they’re easy to tackle unless you get one of the invisible ones. We’re down to three this week as Blake and Kevin are out Christmas shopping. Together? We’ll never tell. But we discuss the Sony hacking scandal and its potential Spider-man ramifications, political leanings are revealed, […]

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‘The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies’ Opens December 17! Enter to Win Passes to the Advance Screening!

Posted: December 8, 2014 at 3:37 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter for your chance to receive a pass for two to a special advance screening! This December, Oscar®-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson will unleash the epic final film in The Hobbit Trilogy, based on the timeless masterpiece by J.R.R. Tolkien, from New Line Cinema and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures. In The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, […]

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25: ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Starring Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch

Posted: December 16, 2013 at 6:12 pm   /   Film, Local, Reel Spoilers

After a week off Reel Spoilers is back and more spoilery than ever. This week it’s all about The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Here’s a little Tolkien trivia for you. Did you know that Wikipedia describes Smaug as a “fictional dragon”? This can only mean that dragons are real! Holy shit! It must be […]

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Movie Review: ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ Starring Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Ian McKellen

Posted: December 13, 2013 at 8:05 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

Yes, it’s better than “The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” (which, in all fairness, isn’t necessarily a bad movie, just a bloated one. It just felt so… padded, in parts.) Whereas director Peter Jackson’s original foray into Tolkien territory with “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy was lengthy, it was also unquestionably epic, with each step […]

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THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG opens December 13! Enter to Win Passes to the St. Louis Advance Screening!

Posted: November 26, 2013 at 4:47 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter to win a pass for two! The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellan) and thirteen Dwarves, led by […]

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Movie Review: ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Starring Martin Freeman, Ian McKellen, Richard Armitage

Posted: December 14, 2012 at 8:54 am   /   Featured, Local, Movie Reviews

After almost 9 years of waiting, we finally return to Middle Earth in The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. There was a period of time where we weren’t sure what would happen with the film, or who would direct it. But it was inevitable in my mind that the only man worthy of helming such a […]

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‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Opens December 14! Enter to Win Passes to the Advance Screening!

Posted: December 3, 2012 at 1:31 pm   /   Local, Movie Screenings

Enter to win a pair of passes! The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of […]

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New Photos from Peter Jackson’s ‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ Starring Martin Freeman

Posted: July 4, 2012 at 8:31 am   /   Local, Movie News

This week Entertainment Weekly released some new exclusie photos of Peter Jackson’s prequel to The Lord of the Rings Trilogy – The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. The film stars Martin Freeman as Bilbo Baggins, and is the first of two films. The Hobbit: There and Back Again will be released in December 2013, and once […]

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Martin Freeman Cast as Bilbo Baggins in Peter Jackson’s “The Hobbit”

Posted: October 22, 2010 at 12:18 pm   /   Local, Movie News

Now that the film has been officially greenlit, and the unions are retracting their strikes of the production, casting can finally get underway. For the past couple years people have been trying to guess who would fill the role of Bilbo Baggins, and plenty of names came up, but the person who ended up with […]

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