“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” has now officially opened in North America. But after all that hype, the reviews are very mixed. The Washington Post's Ann Hornaday gave it a mere one-and-a-half stars and called it a “bloated, shockingly tedious trudge.

After two dreadful weekends at the box office, Gandalf, Bilbo, and a whole motley crew of dwarves have come to the film industry's rescue — and not even the dragon Smaug will be able to keep them from grabbing a whole lot

The Hobbit's overriding flaw is technological. As everyone is by now aware, the movie was shot in 3D at 48 frames per second—twice the frame rate that has been standard in films for the last 80 years. This pictorial strategy is

“The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey” is released in area theaters Friday. (James Fisher) The first installment of “The Hobbit” trilogy comes out Friday to mixed reviews. The Post's Ann Hornaday called the film “a bloated, shockingly tedious trudge

As Rosamund Urwin noted in yesterday's Evening Standard, in the film of the Hobbit the anti-drugs viewpoint is held by the wizard Saruman. At one point, he says of Radagast that “mushrooms have addled his brain”. As those familiar with The Lord Of The

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