While An Unexpected Journey had plenty of bucolic charm, it did, for a Middle-earth film, feel oddly inconsequential. The Desolation Of Smaug remedies that. Moody, urgent and, for want of a better ...

So close is the release of Peter Jackson's Hobbit sequel that we can almost smell Smaug's fiery dragon breath. "Where last year's An Unexpected Journey steered too structurally close to Fellowship and ...

It also offers another glimpse at Benedict Cumberbatch's gigantic titular dragon. Peter Jackson's JRR Tolkien adaptation picks up from last year's An Unexpected Journey. It will see Bilbo Baggins ...

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 on the ...

Born with Autism (formerly classified as Asperger syndrome), Tyler B. Searle has been obsessed with storytelling since he was old enough to speak. He gravitated towards fairy tales, mythology, the ...