Uncut footage has been released of Benedict Cumberbatch's motion-capture performance as Smaug the dragon in The Hobbit movies. And man, does he go for it. For the actor's first foray into ...

No action/fantasy film is complete without a good villain, and Desolation delivers on all fronts. Jackson has created in Smaug a lifelike threat, breathing new life into a rather cartoonish character ...

The mother of all dragons crashed The Colbert Report last night. Literally. It's not the first time a CGI character has appeared on a talk show, but it's one of the best. Smaug, the mighty dragon from ...

CHICAGO – It seems mean to pick on a movie for being merely entertaining. But when that film is part of the Lord of the Rings canon such criticism is fair. Peter Jackson manages to thrill here via ...

“The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” is pure tedium. I wasn’t completely taken with the first part, “An Unexpected Journey,” but I was certainly prepared to give Jackson the benefit of the doubt ...

A year ago, Peter Jackson led audiences on an exciting albeit overlong quest in "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" and like its predecessor, "The Desolation of Smaug" is a welcome return to the lore ...

Stephen Colbert puts Smaug the dragon in the hot seat for a Hobbit interview which sees much of Hollywood get gleefully insulted It's definitely one of the better interviews to come out of the film ...

Let’s discuss The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: The Good: Firstly, the pacing; a vast improvement over its predecessor. Unexpected Journey struggled to pick up the pace; spending much of its time ...

Peter Jackson veered awfully close to Star Wars prequel territory in the first part of his needlessly prolonged Hobbit trilogy. His original Lord of the Rings films had a wonderful sense of ...