There is one thrilling, rib-tickling sequence in “The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug”: A group of dwarves, riding inside empty wine barrels over rushing rapids and waterfalls, fend off an ...

Prior to the story's events, the once-magnificent city under the mountain was invaded by the fire drake Smaug, who was drawn to the vast wealth accumulated by the dwarves. In the Lord of the Rings ...

And like the first "Hobbit" film, "Smaug" uses a higher frame rate for ... overly fixated on the fake noses and foreheads of the dwarves, which seem to show up more in this frame rate.) ...

There's a scene about an hour into "The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug" where hobbit Bilbo (Martin Freeman) saves a group of dwarves after they're captured and imprisoned by the Elvenking ...

The movie contrives several confrontations between the dwarves and Smaug at the end that were never part of the original story. These add absolutely nothing except to give Richard Armitage ...

On it the hobbit Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) travels with the wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and a crew of 13 dwarves headed by Oakenshield to the Kingdom of Erebor. On the way there are fantastical ...