A TRUE “DISNEY” PRINCESS PROBLEM Back in 1937, Walt Disney Studios released its very first animated feature film: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Inspired by the 1812 German fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm, the film—supervised by David Hand and directed by a team of five sequence directors (Perce Pearce, William Cottrell, Larry Morey, Wilfred Jackson, and Ben
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The tournament gets several new members as Warner Bros. Studios release the official trailer for their upcoming martial arts fantasy sequel Mortal Kombat II. View trailer below.
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The Grid comes to the real world as Walt Disney Pictures releases the official trailer for their upcoming sequel film Tron: Ares. View trailer below.
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A BLOCKBUSTER SPECTACLE OF CINEMATIC EXCELLENCE In 2022, Navy Captain Pete “Maverick” Mitchell soared back into the spotlight with Top Gun: Maverick, the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 classic Top Gun. Directed by Joseph Kosinski, the film starred Tom Cruise, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Jon Hamm, Glen Powell, and Val Kilmer, and followed Maverick as he confronted his past
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A FRANCHISE RUNNING ON FOSSIL FUMES In 2022, Universal Pictures released Jurassic World: Dominion, the sixth installment in the Jurassic Park franchise and the third entry in the Jurassic World saga. Directed by Colin Trevorrow and starring Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Laura Dern, Jeff Goldblum, and Sam Neill, the film is set four years after Fallen Kingdom and
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A PIXAR JOURNEY THROUGH GRIEF, GROWTH, AND GALAXIES In 2024, Pixar Animation Studios brought audiences back into the mind of Riley with Inside Out 2, the highly anticipated sequel to their 2015 hit. Directed by Kelsey Mann and featuring the voice talents of Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Lewis Black, Maya Hawke, Tony Hale, Liza Lapira, and Ayo Edebiri, the
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I herald his beginning; I herald your end….as Marvel Studios releases the official final trailer for their upcoming superhero film Fantastic Four: First Steps. View trailer below.
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WHOLESOME PADDINGTON FUN, BUT TO A LESSER DEGREE In 2017, StudioCanal released Paddington 2, the follow-up to 2014’s beloved Paddington. Directed by Paul King, the sequel starred Ben Whishaw, Hugh Bonneville, Sally Hawkins, Brendan Gleeson, Julie Walters, and Hugh Grant. The story followed Paddington Bear as he was wrongly accused and imprisoned for a burglary he didn’t commit, prompting
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A LEGACY REFORGED: HICCUP AND TOOTHLESS TAKE FLIGHT AGAIN Back at the start of the 2010s, DreamWorks Animation released How to Train Your Dragon, a new animated feature based on the popular young readers series by author Cressida Cowell. Directed by Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois, the film followed Hiccup, an undersized teenage Viking who longs to slay dragons
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This is Berk. It snows nine months of the year and hails the other three. Any food that grows here is tough and tasteless. The people that grow here are even more so. The only upsides are the pets. While other places have ponies or parrots… we have… dragons as Jason’s Movie Blog takes an animated “cinematic flashback” look at
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