Wonder Woman 1984 (2020)
The inspiration to do Wonder Woman 1984 came from director Patty Jenkins and her co-writer Geoff Johns. Both happened to be big fans of the 1978 film Superman and its sequels, and they wanted to...
2020s / Action / Fantasy / Superhero
by Vincent Leo · Published December 31, 2020 · Last modified January 9, 2021
The inspiration to do Wonder Woman 1984 came from director Patty Jenkins and her co-writer Geoff Johns. Both happened to be big fans of the 1978 film Superman and its sequels, and they wanted to...
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,...
2010s / Comedy / Horror / Science Fiction
by Vincent Leo · Published July 16, 2016 · Last modified July 9, 2018
Kristen Wiig (Zoolander 2, The Martian) plays Erin Gilbert, an ambitious associate professor seeking tenure at New York’s prestigious Columbia University. Erin ends up losing that when a book she published years ago on ghosts...
Derek Zoolander (Stiller, Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb) is back, the eternally daft and narcissistic male supermodel, now retired and reclusive, who has been persuaded by a ‘fashion police’ agent working for Interpol,...
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...
Ricky Gervais (Stardust, Night at the Museum) stars as Bertram Pincus, a misanthropic London-transplant dentist currently living and working in Manhattan who finds himself gaining the ability to see and hear from dead people after...
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