Nearly everything about "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" represents an improvement over the first installment of Peter Jackson's three-part adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's beloved creation.

Smaug is considered the last "great" dragon in Middle-earth, but is weaker than earlier dragons like Ancalagon. Ancalagon, the strongest and largest dragon, was bred by Morgoth and fought in the ...

Jackson's handsome new ad­dition to the canon, subtitled "The Desolation of Smaug," is a fleet, fun redemption of the film franchise, the first chapter of which had J.R.R. Tolkien fans crying foul.

He's the biggest star of the movie so there was a lot that went into creating Smaug, the dragon the size of a 747 that rules over Erebor with greedy malevolence in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.

Five films are nominated for an Academy Award in the “Visual Effects” category this year, and they each offer a nice look at the amazing tricks filmmakers and their effects teams can pull off ...

A new TV spot for The Hobbit: The Desolation Of Smaug has been released – scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to watch. The 30-second clip sees Martin Freeman’s hobbit Bilbo ...

Admit it: you were pronouncing the word “Smaug” — the name of the Hobbit dragon, the one who’s in the subtitle of the upcoming movie installation — as “smog.” Observant watchers of ...

To conjure true darkness, however, is a trickier feat. Early on in “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug,” Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), having proved his mettle as a budding thief and ...