While An Unexpected Journey had plenty of bucolic charm, it did, for a Middle-earth film, feel oddly inconsequential. The Desolation Of Smaug remedies that. Moody, urgent and, for want of a better ...

Warner Bros. has released a nifty new banner for part two of director Peter Jackson’s Hobbit trilogy, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Before there were three films, you’ll remember that Warner ...

A heavyset man of gross demeanor lurches out of an inn, gnawing a meat bone, and a chuckle of surprise runs through the audience. Peter Jackson, the directorial lord of The Lord of the Rings, the man ...

While we returned to the vast, well-realized locale of Middle-earth, there’s no denying that the drawn-out, CGI-filled, stakes-free first installment of Peter Jackson‘s The Hobbit trilogy made for one ...

The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo ...

Let’s take a step back for a moment. When considering Peter Jackson’s screen adaptation of the beloved Lord of the Rings trilogy there is much to admire about its execution. Not only did Jackson have ...

Focused on beloved Middle-earth adventurer, Bilbo Baggins, the prequel trilogy was not able to capture the imagination as its ...

LONDON — “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” leads the contest for the Jameson Empire Awards, which are voted for by readers of Empire magazine. The pic had seven nominations, followed by “The ...

Movie theaters breathed fire this weekend as “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” struck box-office gold. The Peter Jackson-directed sequel to last year’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected journey,” raked ...

“You’re a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I’m quite fond of you. But you are really just a little fellow, in a wide world after all.” What works in Desolation’s favor is that it’s essentially all ...