Fantasy

How to Train Your CGI Dragon

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  • Title: How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
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If it’s good enough for Disney, I guess. From a filmmaking feat answering the question of can we make a live-action remake (featuring a hell of a lot of CGI) of an animated movie, the existence of the new How to Train Your Dragon makes sense. Outside of that, I’m not really sure what we’re doing here. Much like the vast majority of Disney’s remakes, DreamWorks’ first attempt delivers a fine, if less slightly less magical, version of the original.

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The Librarians: The Next Chapter – And the Dance of Doom

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  • Title: The Librarians: The Next Chapter – And the Dance of Doom
  • IMDb: link

Following the premiere, the first episode with no crossover from previous Librarian movies or shows gives us Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan) leading the team to the opera where the rosin on a pair of opera shoes have put the lead dancer in the hospital. Discovering this is all the work of a witch, the group splits up until her identity is revealed with Lysa (Olivia Morris) and Connor (Bluey Robinson) distracting the witch (Arielle Dombasle) while Vikram makes a small but vital change to the ballet’s performance that prevents the ritual from completing and turning the magic back on the witch to the stunned audience (who I guess thought it was all part of the show?).

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The Wheel of Time – Seeds of Shadow / The Road to the Spear

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  • Title: The Wheel of Time – Seeds of Shadow / The Road to the Spear
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Rand al’Thor‘s (Josha Stradowski) journey continues across the Ariel Waste with their new guides who lead them to the city of Rhuidean. While he and Moiraine Damodred (Rosamund Pike) are permitted entry where they will face challenges to prove their worth. While Rand walks through a the past, living through generations of his timeline and learning about his parents, the creation of the city of the clouds, and the oath sworn long ago and how it was broken, Moiraine has visions of many possible futures. While we spend the bulk of time with Rand, we only see flashes of Moiraine’s visions which include a possible romance with Rand and several timelines which end at the hands of Lanfear (Natasha O’Keeffe) who we notably also see in Rand’s past vision as well. Aviendha (Ayoola Smart), who has avoided her true path for too long, also takes a similar journey through the rings as Moiraine (although we are not privy to her visions).

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The Librarians: The Next Chapter – And the Deadly Drekavac

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  • Title: The Librarians: The Next Chapter – And the Deadly Drekavac
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Adding yet another Librarian wouldn’t be my first choice for improving The Librarians (which already has a few too many characters by that name). However, the opening episode of The Librarians: The Next Chapter offers an intriguing argument for just that when introducing a Librarian from the past, Vikram Chamberlain (Callum McGowan), pulled into present day. A bit too fond of magic, Vikram was caught in a time bubble for centuries before being freed by Stone (Christian Kane). While Stone deals with a magical rupture Vikram created, the Librarian from the past heads off with some companions to capture a lonely soul possessed by a demon (also released thanks to the elder Librarian).

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The Wheel of Time – A Question of Crimson

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  • Title: The Wheel of Time – A Question of Crimson
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As the journey of Rand al’Thor (Josha Stradowski) and the others towards the Ariel Waste moves slowly, largely drama free (other than bad dreams) before arriving at the edge of the Wastes at the close of the episode, there’s more drama elsewhere. Following the events at the White Tower, Morgase Trakand (Olivia Williams) arrives with plans of removing her daughter Elayne (Ceara Coveney) and returning her home. Elayne convinces her mother to stay, although she also leaves behind a few new faces in the tower in her sons and Siuan‘s (Sophie Okonedo) old rival Elaida (Shohreh Aghdashloo). Meanwhile, Siuan gives Elayne and Nynaeve (Zoë Robins) a new assignment within the Tower to root out any others in league with the Black Ajah. And Perrin (Marcus Rutherford) and the others arrive back at the Two Rivers only to discover it isn’t the home he remembers now plagued by both Trollocs and Whitecloaks (the latter of which have deemed him an enemy).

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