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REVIEW COLLECTION: The Marvel Cinematic Universe (PHASE THREE, Part 2)

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(Source: YouTube )  Captain Marvel (2019)  Those who wondered what the logo was on Nick Fury's pager at the end of Avengers: Infinity War  got the answer to that the following year. Brie Larson made her MCU debut in an origin story of Air Force pilot-turned-galactic superhero Carol Danvers, who gains superpowers and becomes one of the Marvel Universe's most powerful characters. It also marked the first major superhero movie with a solo female lead since DC's Wonder Woman two years prior. Not to mention the first MCU entry with a female director and composer each.  Released one month before DC’s Shazam (which, ironically, carried the name of Captain Marvel in its original comic book series), this 2019 tentpole —chronologically the second in the MCU, between Captain America: The First Avenger and Iron Man —has a very non-linear structure. The main plot centers around Danvers a.k.a. Vers struggling to remember who she is, the life she may have once had, and ho...
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REVIEW COLLECTION: DreamWorks Animation Filmography, Part 4 (Second Edition)

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(Source: YouTube )  [The following was originally posted on March 20, 2026 ; May 29, 2026 ; and July 24, 2026 . Additional reviews include original posting dates in brackets.]  How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World  (2019)  Following the release of  How to Train Your Dragon  in 2010, co-writer/-director Dean DeBlois stepped up to continue the CG franchise, but on the condition that it be nothing more than three films. As Matt Reeves did with the rebooted  Planet of the Apes  sequels, DeBlois and the artists at DreamWorks really took their time and capped off their ever-popular (and exceptional) series with what is arguably the best third entry in an animated trilogy since Pixar’s  Toy Story 3 .  The Hidden World  marks the first DreamWorks Animation release under the company’s new partnership with Universal, and their first since  Madagascar  to be affiliated with the studio while in their early years as an indep...
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REVIEW COLLECTION: DreamWorks Animation Filmography, Part 3 (Second Edition)

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(Source: YouTube )  [The following was originally posted on November 28, 2025 , and December 12, 2025 .]  The Croods  (2013)  When DreamWorks Animation moved from Paramount to 20th Century Fox in the early-2010s, it was the dawn of another new era, both figuratively and literally. So, it was fitting that their first feature under this new partnership centered around a nuclear family of primitive Neanderthals, forced to leave their cave—and change their ways—when their world and everything they know is coming to an end.  Said family, known as the Croods, consists of teenage daughter Eep (voiced by Emma Stone), who longs to see the world beyond her family’s cave; concerned and caring matriarch Ugga (Catherine Keener); cheerful son Thunk (Clark Duke), stubborn elder Gran (Gloris Leachman), and animalistic little girl Sandy. All are led by the well-meaning but overprotective patriarch Grug (voiced by Nicolas Cage), whose bedtime stories, for one, always end in death...
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