Peter Jackson – Derailed Trains of Thought

Side Track 13 – We Were There 3000 (20) Years Ago

December 3, 2021 00:40:27 0 Comments

This December is the 20th Year Anniversary of the release of The Fellowship of the Ring movie. For Tim, this was a seminal movie in his life. Nick, on the other hand, has probably only seen it once or twice. But now, they are watching the movie together (

Episode 45 – King Kong (2005)

November 14, 2025 0 Comments

It’s 2005. Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, follows that triumph by remaking one of his favorite movies–King Kong. By taking the original, iconic 1933 film and expanding it with his own knack for special effects and epic-length storytelling, Jackson creates a version that, as critic Roger Ebert says, “is like…