Nowadays most people think of Peter Jackson when you mention The Lord of the Rings or The Hobbit but back in the 70s there was the Rankin & Bass directed adaptation of The Hobbit which, along with songs taken directly from the Tolkien novel, had the original song from Glenn Yarbrough “The Greatest Adventure (The Ballad of The Hobbit)”

This week on the podcast, Zach and Chris talk Animorphs, Batman Begins and Batman Forever, Dick Tracy, Nightmare on Elm Street, Star Wars Squadrons, Alita: Battle Angel and more.

Back in 1967, Leonoard Nimoy debuted his musical homage to The Hobbit with “The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins”, which was one of the songs off his second album called Two Sides of Leonard Nimoy.

Based on the Peter S. Beagle fantasy novel, Rankin/Bass produced the animated version of The Last Unicorn in 1982 which featured a title song by the band America.

A true legend passed away on Sunday as Christopher Lee died at age 93 after a fascinating and jam packed life and career.

Peter Jackson has ended each of his Hobbit films with a credits song from Neil Finn, Ed Sheerhan and now Pippin himself, Billy Boyd.

The final chapter of Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy arrives this December as Bilbo and the dwarf company must protect the newly reclaimed Erebor from Smaug and an ever-growing Orc army.

A bunch of cult classics coming to Blu-ray this week along with some mediocre releases from earlier this year, our Pick of the Week, Destroy All Monsters, and much more for this week’s New Release Round Up.