Lord of the Rings fans have been waiting to be reunited with Middle Earth for the release of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, as we venture back to the beginnings of the brilliant J.R.R. Tolkien’s treasured stories of mystical Elves, Dwarves, Goblin’s and of course the beloved Hobbits.

The countdown has begun as the release of The Hobbit is exactly a year away; it will adorn our screens on December 14 2012. This time we plunge our imaginations into the adventures of Bilbo Baggin’s, a hobbit who is on a quest to reclaim the Lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Bilbo made his appearance in the LOTR trilogies as Frodo’s cousin who adopted him at the age of 21, he also taught the elvish language to Frodo and shared the same birthday with him, as well as long walking trips.

Through the amazing direction of Peter Jackson in the Fellowship of the Ring, we watch as Bilbo leaves the Shire on his one hundred and eleventh birthday and as he departs, he passes forth the Magic Ring and Bag’s End unto Frodo, J.R.R. Tolkien’s main character.

The Hobbit will have us explore the beginning when Bilbo was younger, to when he meets a creature that will change his life forever and takes hold of the “Precious Ring”. Many characters that we have come to love in the Lord of the Ring’s Trilogies will make a return and some will not, we will have to await this journey through a New Year, and four seasons before we will travel back in time upon the captivating voyage through Middle Earth once more.

The movie Gremlins occurred during a time when horror and comedy was becoming increasingly popular. Long before the movie, the popular children’s author, Roald Dahl, coined the term “Gremlins” after publishing a book titled The Gremlins in 1943, based on the mischievous creatures, even Walt Disney wanted to create a movie in which Bugs Bunny battled the little beasts.

It wasn’t until the creator of the movie Gremlins, Chris Columbus, conceived the idea from his loft from sounds of mice scurrying around making him feel uneasy, hence a screen play was born, one that was never meant to be turned into a film until Spielberg got his hands on it. The movie become an instant classic, surrounding Gizmo as the main character whose voice was that of Howie Mandel, the Canadian comedian, host and actor. The other well-known actor in the film was Corey Feldman as Pete Fountaine, who prior to Gremlins acted in commercials, therefore this role gave him early acting credentials within his youth.

Anyone who was raised in the 80′s would have found this movie to be a part of their collection and remains a movie classic till this day.

From Wikipedia:

The notion of gremlins was first conceived during World War II, when mechanical failures in aircraft were jokingly blamed on the small monsters. The term “gremlins” also entered popular culture as children’s author Roald Dahl published a book called The Gremlins in 1943, based on the mischievous creatures.^[3] (Walt Disney considered making a film of it. A Bugs Bunny cartoon of the era has him battling a gremlin on an airplane.) Joe Dante had read The Gremlins, and said that the book was of some influence on his film. In 1983, Dante publicly distanced his work from earlier films, explaining, “Our gremlins are somewhat different—they’re sort of green and they have big mouths and they smile a lot and they do incredibly, really nasty things to people and enjoy it all the while”.^[4][5]

So, you need to pass a history report and the only way to do this is to go back in time and kidnap a bunch of famous people, or you need to get the hell out of Dodge because you just watched a bunch of Libyans shoot up the crazy old man who is your only friend. Or maybe you just want to go back in time to amaze and seduce peasant girls with your iPhone. We’ve all been there. The only problem is coming up with a way to make it happen. Well, luckily for you, we here at Heavy have compiled a handy list of time travel methods, each with their various benefits and drawbacks, for you to peruse. Read more.

Say what you will about Twilight, it’s definitely worth watching, at least after seeing these pics of Ashley Greene. I’m so into vampires now!

After recently viewing Nick and Norah’s Infinitely terrible movie I thought “Wow, I would just love for a killer monster to just slaughter everyone in this movie”. Years ago I used to do a bit in which I would combine the plots of two movies to make a new movie with examples such as “American History X-mas” and “Schindler’s List 2: Electric Boogaloo”. So I thought “what could make all these terrible chick flicks interesting?”. Well I decided it was time to give a few of these chick flicks a badass movie makeover.

1. Volverine

When Raimunda (Penelope Cruz) returns to her childhood village to clean the gravestones of her dead parents she discovers that the fire they died in wasn’t an accident. During her quest to find the killers Raimunda learns from her Aunt that she’s actually a government experiment with adamantium  claws. When Raimunda finds her husband attempting to molest her daughter the claws come out and rip him and her daughter to shreds. Code naming herself “Wolverine” which she pronounces as “Volverine” because of her hot accent she begins her bloody quest for vengeance.

I know, I know, it’s not right to hit a woman… Unless of course she’s trying to kill you or make you watch the Sex and the City movie. If that’s the case, there’s only one way to take her out, and here it is…

UP was good, in that whole animated-for-kids-but-ill-still-watch-it-cause-some-girl-i-like-wants-me-to-go-with-her kinda way. I would have preferred to see UP IRL and it looks like I just might be able to soon enough!