‘The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power’ premiere review: Tolkien in landscape, modern in story

The highly anticipated extension of The Lord of the Rings franchise is finally here. In a drama set thousands of years prior to both The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, Prime Video’s The Lord of the Rings: The…

Tolkien Movie Review: Director Dome Karukoski misses the mark, and the magic

There’s an inspired moment about halfway through Dome Karukoski’s Tolkien where a young J. R. R. Tolkien (Nicholas Hoult) takes his future wife Edith Bratt (Lily Collins) to tea in a lavish restaurant, one shellacked with the suffocating pomp of…