Tolkien (Blu-ray) <small>by Jesse Skeen</small><hr /> With the various Hobbit and Lord of the Rings stories getting multiple film treatments, Dome Karukoski decided it was time for author J. R. R. Tolkien (the letters standing for John Ronald Reuel) to be the subject of one. The result gives you a decent idea of what the man himself was like, but not so much as to how his most famous stories came about. Most of the movie is told in flashback, a format which I've expressed my general dislike of here numerous times. The movie begins with Tolkien (Nicholas Hoult) as an army lieutenant in France during the first World War, then flashes back to earlier episodes of his life. We see him a bit younger (played here by Harry Gilby) as he lives in England with his brother Hilary (Guillermo Bedward) and single mother (Laura Donnelly). ...Read the entire review »