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,...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published January 17, 2019 · Last modified January 18, 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,...
Gods of Egypt is what I would deem a ‘rancid undies’ kind of movie, a film so overblown in its ability to deliver nonsensical absurdity that only those with a curious penchant for the distinct...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published June 14, 2014 · Last modified January 18, 2019
In what will likely go down as my personal pick for the most disappointing film of 2014, given my lofty expectations going in, How to Train Your Dragon 2 takes just about every character I grew...
2010s / Action / Adventure / Animation / Family / Fantasy
by Vincent Leo · Published June 1, 2014 · Last modified January 18, 2019
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...
2000s / Action / Fantasy / War
by Vincent Leo · Published March 10, 2007 · Last modified December 9, 2019
How should a film reviewer who has a degree in Classics, who is a Frank Miller fan, and who has read the mini-series upon which it is based approach a film version without expectations? ...
2000s / Adventure / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published July 7, 2005 · Last modified May 22, 2019
A popular Michael Crichton novel gets the big budget movie treatment yet again, and like many of the other adaptations of his work, the results are only so-so. Here, it’s fairly easy to see...
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