Tag: Orlando Bloom

Lock It Up The twist in Unlocked concerns the villain. Using racial profiling, via Arabic dialect and vaguely Middle Eastern-looking actors, Unlocked suggests terrorists. It’s a trap and the …

Please Tell No More Tales It took Pirates of the Caribbean 14 years to reach “torch passing” status. Henry Turner (Brenton Thwaites) and Carina Smyth (Kaya Scodelario) take over …

Battle of the compression codec Yes, it’s too long. No, it did not need to be three movies. But, The Hobbit is no less fun. Bilbo may be almost …

We’ve now been to Mordor and back again At some point in this trilogy of Hobbit spectacles, the Hobbit was lost. Martin Freeman’s lowly Bilbo, with his face contorting …

For its opening breeziness, Desolation still turns into a screen hog, if not to overflowing capacity.

Short of the most cynical amongst us, it's hard not to be impressed by how glamorous and visually scaled the film is.

Two Towers is allowed to astound audiences from the beginning, the fantastic brawl as Gandolf battles the flaming demon Balrog while falling down a pit a visual feast.