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 ...

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 ...

So close is the release of Peter Jackson's Hobbit sequel that we can almost smell Smaug's fiery dragon breath. "The Desolation of Smaug' shows Peter Jackson in an especially overabundant mood, ...

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 ...

Production still from "The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug." Whatever you might think of Peter Jackson's/the greedy studio heads' decision to stretch J.R.R. Tolkien's relatively tight book into three ...

Welcome back to Middle-earth! The new trailer for the second installment in the trilogy-fied The Hobbit has landed and anyone excited by the subtitle The Desolation of Smaug—Smaug being a very ...

THE second instalment of Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy of films grosses the second highest Boxing Day takings ever. Guess the highest. The second movie in Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, The ...