FlixChatter Review: How To Train Your Dragon (2025) – This live-action adaptation delivers a fun ride but can’t quite capture the magic of the animated original

The first How To Train Your Dragon animated movie was released 15 years ago. When Universal announced they were going to make a live-action version, I immediately rolled my eyes. I’m just over studios rehashing the same stories, similar to what Disney does with its endless stream of live-action films based on animated classics. They …

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FlixChatter’s NOVEMBER viewing recap + Mini Reviews + Movie of the Month

Welcome to the last month of the year!! This year has gone by so fast, I still can't believe we're just weeks away from Christmas!  This is a busy season for film critics as I have a slew of screeners sent my way that I'm playing catch-up with watching and reviewing. I'm hoping to watch …

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PLANE (2023) Review: this Gerard Butler actioner swoops in to deliver a surprisingly enjoyable ride

Gerard Butler movies don't usually fly well with critics. Nonetheless, I was curious where this PLANE movie would land with me. I even forgot it happened on the same night as the Golden Globes, but y'know what, it ends up being well worth my time. PLANE is the kind of movie that harkens back to …

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GREENLAND (2021) Review – A surprisingly grounded disaster movie featuring Gerard Butler’s best performance in years

It’s been all over the news this weekend that NASA is launching its DART mission, aka Double Asteroid Redirection Test tonight. Its spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid as part of a planetary defense protection. So it’s really kismet that my hubby and I chose to watch Greenland on Saturday night, before we actually …

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FlixChatter Review: ANGEL HAS FALLEN (2019)

I’m not the biggest fan of the FALLEN franchise. In fact, I hated the first one and I thought the second was tolerable but still not very good. Both weren’t huge box office hits yet somehow Gerard Butler was able to convince a studio to produce another adventure of his mean-spirited hero character Mike Bannon. …

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FlixChatter Review – How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)

How To Train Your Dragon has officially become one of my favorite movie trilogies ever… and perhaps even rival Toy Story as my fave animated trilogies. When the first movie first came out, it kind of took me by surprise just how much I adore it. In fact, it’s one of those rare times that …

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Week in Review: Shaun the Sheep Movie & London Has Fallen

Happy Monday folks! Boy, in terms of weather, this is gonna be a darn near perfect week for us here in the Twin Cities! Highs in the 50s and 60s every day and it's only the beginning of March! Well, I ain't complaining, in fact I'm wearing short sleeves already today. Well, usually I do …

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