the hobbit
The Interview: The Hobbit director Peter Jackson
Director Peter Jackson on his last Tolkien movie, his favourite villain—and why his kids haven’t read Lord of the Rings
Mythic history vs. magic realism: Oscar loves Lincoln and Life of Pi
Canadians can celebrate a foreign-language nomination for ‘War Witch’ and music nods for ‘Life of Pi’ composer Michael Danna
The week’s good news and bad news
From Don Cherry mastery of Twitter, to the U.S. no longer being able to pay its bills
Video: Brian D. Johnson on The Hobbit and Hyde Park on the Hudson
Both Bilbo Baggins and FDR are portrayed with panache, but the movies? Not so much.
Great expectations dashed: ‘The Hobbit’ and ‘Hyde Park on the Hudson’
3D hits the wall with ‘The Hobbit’; a limping Murray makes a fine FDR but the movie is lame
“We’re going to out-Klingon Klingon!”
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.