Smack dab in the middle of the summer superhero season comes this: a brand-new trailer and images for director Peter Jackson's next Hobbit flick, The Desolation of Smaug. It's been a while since we've ...

The charm and manners of Tolkien’s fairy tale are jettisoned in favor of more preposterous action scenes and a tepid love triangle in this bloated middle movie. (photo: Warner Bros.) At the climax of ...

The wait for a glimpse of Peter Jackson's second Hobbit installment has heretofore felt longer than that dinner scene in the last film. Luckily, now that the release date for The Desolation of Smaug ...

Well, that’s more like it! While I remain unconvinced about Peter Jackson’s vainglorious project to inflate an adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s 1937 children’s story into a sprawling three-part prequel ...