I usually stress the importance of not straying from the source material but when director Peter Jackson ("The Lord of the Rings") decided to add a new character, Tauriel (played by Evangeline Lily), ...

The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins as he journeys with the Wizard Gandalf and thirteen Dwarves, led by Thorin Oakenshield, on an epic ...

Now that it’s over, finally, we can see that all three parts of “The Hobbit” told a very simple story: Bilbo, a hobbit, is recruited by dwarfs to help them steal treasure from a dragon. They do, but ...