The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey
Blockbuster or bladderburster? Why movie intermissions must return – now!
From Bond to The Batman, films are nearing the leg-crossing, buttock-numbing three-hour mark. Bring back the interval, says our writer, and a golden era of cinema will follow
Teenage kicks
Martin Freeman’s teenage obsessions: ‘I still think that rude-boy skinhead look is hard to beat’The Hobbit actor, who is back on TV in the sitcom Breeders, recalls sharp dressing on a budget, discovering Public Enemy and how Michael Caine got him into film
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Ian Holm: a virtuoso actor of steel, sinew – and charmIan Holm, star of Lord of the Rings, Alien and Chariots of Fire, dies aged 88
Andy Serkis to read The Hobbit nonstop to raise money for the NHS
The actor, best known for playing Gollum in the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit films, will read the entire JRR Tolkien novel
Martin Freeman: ‘The detective’s moral dilemma drew me in’
The Sherlock actor on his new role as a real life police officer who broke the law to bring a double murderer to justice in A Confession
Aidan Turner: ‘You take a top off, and then it’s madness’
That topless scene in Poldark turned him into a national heart-throb, but Aidan Turner doesn’t know what all the fuss is about. He talks about lies, laziness, and why his hair has its own Twitter account
Andy Serkis and the marvel of ‘performance capture’
As Gollum and King Kong, Andy Serkis showed what could be done with film’s cutting-edge technology. But, as he tells Robert McCrum, we haven’t seen anything yet
Hobbit extended editions hit cinemas: bigger, longer, better?
Peter Jackson’s movies are to return to US multiplexes with extra footage, despite complaints that the original cuts already contained enough padding
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When the laughter stops: how sitcom stars have fared in HollywoodFor every Chris Pratt, Woody Harrelson and now Amy Poehler, there is a Sofia Vergara or Jennifer Aniston. We look at the former small-screen stars who made the biggest splash in Hollywood
Peter Jackson turns home into replica of Bilbo's Hobbit house
A set artist reveals that the Lord of the Rings director has turned the basement of his New Zealand mansion into the home of Tolkien’s protagonist
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When directors shoot movies back-to-back, who wins?James Cameron’s plan to film three Avatar sequels one after the other represents the peak of Hollywood’s obsession with stockpile film-making
Andrew Lesnie: 'master of light' finely tuned into both nature and people
With the cinematographer’s painterly eye and MacGyver-like skill for problem solving, no wonder Peter Jackson never let go of Lesnie once he found him, writes Luke Buckmaster
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From gardening week to pie day: the strangest movie tie-ins
Week in geek
Cutting The Hobbit down to size: no dwarf-elf flirting, no albino orcsOne anonymous editor has whittled down Peter Jackson’s nine-hour, three-part unexpurgated journey down to a single four-hour chunk – with the odd casualty
Damien Walter's weird things
Tolkien's myths are a political fantasyIn a world built on myth, we can’t ignore the reactionary politics at the heart of Tolkien’s Middle Earth
The film quiz
Who said it: Hobbit characters or real political leaders? – quizDid a real-world leader or Tolkien character say these words? Guess away
Bored of the rings? No more Tolkien, says Peter Jackson – but Ian McKellen suspects otherwise
Director says that the likes of The Silmarillion out of bounds for film-makers unless Tolkien estate has change of heart, as Hobbit star McKellen later predicts
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