This weekend saw the release of the third and ostensibly final entry in the How to Train Your Dragon film series, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. I loved the first movie and liked the second one, so I’ve been eagerly awaiting this film along with the series’ other fans around the...
Read MoreUsually I have reservations when a sequel, spin-off, or basically any continuation of a movie I liked is announced; however, I could not have been more ready for more after I saw DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon. The first movie introduced a breathtaking world full of interesting characters, a...
Read MoreIn film discourse, you hear a lot about creativity and the overuse of certain tropes and plot points. However, it’s always interested me that a lot of the most famous and beloved movies contain these tropes and archetypes, and are even celebrated for them. As for me, some of my favorite movies...
Read MoreUniversal released a full trailer for their live-action How to Train Your Dragon remake last week. I don’t know about you, but I keep trying to forget that this movie exists, so I just now got around to watching the trailer. Much like the excellent 2010 original, How to Train Your Dragon follows H...
Read MoreI’ve been looking forward to The War of the Rohirrim since I first heard of it. The people behind the Lord of the Rings movie trilogy are involved, and this is just one animated movie, so I wasn’t worried about it becoming bloated or self-indulgent like the Hobbit movies. The animation looked sl...
Read MoreToday, Universal dropped the first teaser trailer for the live-action remake of DreamWorks’ How to Train Your Dragon. It’s essentially a shot-for-shot recreation of Hiccup (Mason Thames) and Toothless’ first proper introduction with Stoick’s (Gerard Butler) voiceover straight from the animat...
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