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 ...

Director Peter Jackson must do “spectacular” in his sleep. Even with the thinnest of premises – this second Hobbit movie is reportedly based on a mere five chapters of that children’s book – Jackson ...

So close is the release of Peter Jackson's Hobbit sequel that we can almost smell Smaug's fiery dragon breath. "Where last year's An Unexpected Journey steered too structurally close to Fellowship and ...

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 ...