‘The Rings Of Power’ Showrunners Have Awfully Strange Explanations For Sauron’s Identity

The Rings Of Power Credit: Amazon Amazon’s The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power has been perhaps the most divisive television show of 2022, which should come as little surprise. Any time somethin...

‘The Rings Of Power’ Is Making A Mockery Of Tolkien’s Work

Galadriel bears no resemblance to any version of Tolkien’s elven lady. Neither does ‘The Rings Of … [+] Power’ to his body of work or ‘The Lord Of The Rings.’ Credi...

This Is Just Getting Silly Now

Morfydd Clark (Galadriel) in Amazon’s The Rings Of Power Amazon Studios I have a confession to make: I am a fan of the Ewoks in The Return Of The Jedi. I always have been and I always will be. I...

‘The Rings Of Power’ Has Inexplicably Terrible Writing

The Rings Of Power Credit: Amazon I’ve come to a sad realization: The creators of Amazon’s The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power know how to create spectacle, but they don’t know how to tell a goo...

I Think We Can All Agree That Amazon’s ‘Rings Of Power’ Gets One Thing Just Perfect

Amazon’s orcs are really damn good. Credit: Amazon One of the big questions fans are asking themselves as they watch Amazon’s The Rings Of Power, is does it feel like Tolkien’s The Lord Of The R...

The New D23 Expo Trailer For Disney+ Series ‘Willow’ Captures The Original Film’s Magic

One of the shows I’m most excited for in all of 2022 is the new live-action Willow headed to Disney+ this November. It’s basically an early Christmas present. I loved Willow as a kid and still do. I c...

A Powerful Beginning To Amazon’s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Show

The Rings Of Power Credit: Amazon Powerful elven warriors setting off on epic quests of revenge. Bustling dwarven cities hewn into stone. Diminutive halflings—called Harfoots—hiding from the big peopl...

The Rings Of Power’ Is Not Woke

The Rings Of Power Credit: Amazon One of the more tiresome complaints I’ve heard online about Amazon’s Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power show is that it’s pushing a woke agenda—cramming said agend...

The Rings Of Power’ Releases And How To Watch For Free

The Rings Of Power Credit: Amazon The big day is almost here. The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power comes out this week on Amazon Prime Video. The new show, based on J.R.R. Tolkien’s appendices to...

The Rings Of Power’s Dislike-Buried YouTube Trailer Shows A Steep Hill

Rings of Power Amazon It is hard to understate just how much Amazon Prime has riding on The Rings of Power, its Lord of the Rings series with a reported billion dollar budget. We are now less than two...

Why Amazon’s ‘Lord Of The Rings’ Is Far From A Surefire Streaming Hit

Amazon dropped the latest 2.5-minute trailer for The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. The ambitious and obscenely expensive (reportedly $465 million for the first season) fantasy show adapts J.R...

The Rings Of Power’ New Tagline Stirs Debate

The Lord Of The Rings: The Rings Of Power Credit: Amazon Everything about Amazon’s upcoming Lord Of The Rings show is divisive. It’s inevitable at this point. Adapting Tolkien’s writings about the Sec...