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 ...

“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” ended with a brief glimpse of the Lonely Mountain in the distance, a shining beacon of hope for the company. “The Desolation of Smaug” begins with a brief flashback ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has released seven new pictures exclusively through Digital Spy. The fresh images from Peter Jackson's JRR Tolkien adaptation - the second in the Hobbit film ...

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, ...

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