Fantasy adventure. Starring Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Evangeline Lilly and Orlando Bloom. Directed by Peter Jackson. (PG-13. 161 minutes.) Peter Jackson's "The Hobbit: The ...

NEW YORK – “The Hobbit” has been saved… at least for the time being. “The Desolation of Smaug” is a vast improvement over the first installment and is an excellent return to the level of quality as ...

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 ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. The second film in director Peter Jackson’s The ...

When we last left the hobbit Bilbo Baggins and his dwarf companions, they had begun their quest to the Misty Mountains with the aid of Gandalf the Grey. The dwarves were determined to find the hidden ...

Warner Bros.’ The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug generated $8.8 million from midnight screenings. The studio is calling it “the second biggest midnight numbers ever in December.” Last year, The ...

to pilfer from a fearsome dragon, in the new movie The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug. Smaug might be the first decent CG dragon, ever. he seemed ridiculous. I would be honored to be named after those ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

Furry-footed hero Bilbo Baggins is back for another adventure in "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug." Based on J.R.R. Tolkien's acclaimed 1937 novel, the second installment in Peter Jackson's ...

So what's the problem? The latest tinkering for Smaug can't change the fact that a lot of cinematic sleight-of-hand gets tucked under the rug by the older film tech. With all its motion blur and ...

All of this meant that expectations for The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (which I'm calling Desolation for the rest of this review, both for length reasons and because it sounds cool) were, at best ...

Superior in nearly all ways to its predecessor, this second of Peter Jackson’s epic adaptations of J.R.R. Tolkien’s not-nearly-as-massive prequel to The Lord of the Rings trilogy is a welcome surprise ...