Long before Elijah Wood starred as the beloved ring-carrying hobbit Frodo in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, he featured in another major film, but you might not recognize him in it. In 1989, Wood ...

Two decades before Jackson’s trilogy brought Tolkien’s books to the big screen, there were attempts to animate his stories instead. 1980’s The Return of the King is one example, with Arthur Rankin Jr.

It's hard to believe, but Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings film trilogy is now a quarter of a century old--and to coincide with the momentous occasion, a new 25th anniversary box set of The ...

Ariel Messman-Rucker is an Oakland-born journalist who now calls the Pacific Northwest her home. When she’s not writing about politics and queer pop culture, she can be found reading, hiking, or ...

SPOILER ALERT: This story contains spoilers from “People We Meet on Vacation,” now streaming on Netflix. Book lovers reached their happy place Friday when the film adaptation of Emily Henry‘s beloved ...

We've all seen movies that went too far, but it's important to remember that what we saw was approved by the MPAA. The director may have intended to include even more shocking material in the film, ...

In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2025, Justin Chang, Alison Willmore, and Bilge Ebiri—about the year in cinema. Hi, guys! Funnily enough, I was ...

Movies went above and beyond when it came to pushing sexual boundaries in 2025. Shanks added that the “low-budget” element of production also required two people who were innately comfortable with ...

2025 was a year filled with cinematic moments, thrilling and devastating, cathartic and hilarious. Many of the year’s best films delivered scenes that have since proven hard to forget. Some, like Paul ...

The year is coming to a close, which means everyone is posting their year-end lists of the best movies and TV shows of 2025. But we have another year-end list tradition here at the Decider, and it’s ...