Category: Movie Reviews
REVIEW: Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)
Disney’s Pocahontas was one of my favorite movies as a kid, but it’s one of those films that doesn’t hold up well at all over time. As I got older, I started recognizing patterns in movies I liked, as opposed to those I didn’t care much for, and got interested in critiquing them. Suffice it ...
Read MoreREVIEW: How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
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 MoreREVIEW: Alita: Battle Angel (2019)
Spike | Feb 22, 2019 | 0
A movie that was around 18 years in the making since Guillermo del Toro introduced James Cameron to the manga/anime, Alita: Battle Angel finally opened for the general public on February 14th. The original comic book – Gunnm by Yukito Kishiro, initially published in Shueisha’s Business Ju...
Read MoreREVIEW: How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014)
Usually 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 MoreREVIEW: How to Train Your Dragon (2010)
In 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 MoreREVIEW: Kim Possible (2019)
I try not to judge movies based on trailers because they are often misleading and sometimes poorly edited. Everybody can probably name a movie that had bad trailers but ended up being pretty good, and vice versa. That being said, from the very first promo image of Disney Channel’s live-action Kim ...
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