Howard Shore wrote the film scores for the "Lord of the Rings" and "Hobbit" movies. (howardshore.com) Composer Howard Shore has written dozens of film scores. He's worked with directors Jonathan Demme ...

Congratulations, Peter Jackson. You’ve redeemed yourself with “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug.” The fast-paced second outing in the “Hobbit” trilogy runs rings around the rambling first episode, ...

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 Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug has been in ...

When I saw THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY last December, I was blown away. When the film finished (why would the eagles drop them there?), I sat motionless, stunned by the majesty of what I had ...

The Dwarf fellowship led by the Hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) continues on their quest to liberate the Lonely Mountain from the conquest of the greedy dragon Smaug (voiced by Benedict ...

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 ...

Bilbo Baggins, Gandalf and their company thirteen dwarves have managed to leave the Misty Mountains almost unscathed after a series of death-defying encounters with trolls, stone giants, goblins and ...

Movie theaters breathed fire this weekend as “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug” struck box-office gold. The Peter Jackson-directed sequel to last year’s “The Hobbit: An Unexpected journey,” raked ...

From the moment it was announced that Peter Jackson’s film version of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit would be made into a trilogy, there was a good degree of skepticism over how successfully such a small ...