Dragonslayer (1981)
Set in the fictional British kingdom of Urland in the 6th Century, Peter MacNicol stars as Galen, apprentice to an aging sorcerer named Ulrich (Richardson). Ulrich has been enlisted for help in trying to stop...
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World is the third film in the lucrative animated series for Dreamworks, and this effort promises to put a cap on the trilogy that might end here,...
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2014)
This is the one that finally broke me. J.R.R. Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” has the secondary title of “There and Back Again”, which certainly rang true for many readers, who enjoy going back to the...
How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
Jay Baruchel (Fanboys, Knocked Up) voices the protagonist, Hiccup, a young Viking living in a tiny village called Berk. Berk’s inhabitants have little to live for except to fend off countless attacks by a wide...
Sucker Punch (2011)
Many questions emerge shortly after walking out of a viewing of Sucker Punch. Perhaps the first and foremost one is, “What the *bleep* was that all about?” There may be a few more thoughts that...
Alice in Wonderland (2010)
Director Tim Burton teams up with Disney scribe Linda Woolverton in a visual tour-de-force telling of the classic story, which combines elements of the two Lewis Carroll allegories, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” and its...
Shrek (2001)
With the exception of in-jokes taking jabs at family film industry leader Disney and their former monopoly in the animation industry, Shrek is a straight-forward, hip adventure. At the same time, while it may be derivative,...
DragonHeart (1996)
In the 10th century, a young king is wounded and a dragon donates half his heart to save him. The king becomes a tyrant, causing much misery upon his subjects. Years later, a noted...