Desolation of Smaug will become the most memorable chapter, but this doesn’t make it any more substantial than the first.

 

 

Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg’s most recent collaboration, The Worlds End, is much like their previous collaborations in that it elucidates a seemingly endemic fear of monotony. Shaun of the Dead limned this with slow, staggering, brain-hungry zombies; Hot Fuzz saw a town consumed by a perfection-driven cult. In The World’s End, we watch the sleepy town […]