This review requires a little bit of background. When How to Train Your Dragon came to theaters, I missed it. It wasn’t intentional – we did run a review by Nicole and I fully intended to see it in theaters after her high praise. As is usual, my schedule got out of hand and I missed it in theaters so I figured I would catch it when it came out on DVD and write up a DVD review of the movie.... 

How excited are we to be back after a few weeks? So excited that Margaret coins a new word in the first half of the show. While our format may be off (it has been a few weeks), we bring you reviews of X-Men: First Class, Super 8, and Green Lantern. We’re also using our time to catch up on old movies, so you finally get to hear what Margaret thought about Friday Night Lights, Brick, and Knowing,... 

It’s the episode that couldn’t be stopped! No illness, no papercut, no fear of Margaret’s yelps could keep us from our annual Oscar roundup. Listen as we discuss the major categories and contenders, offering our choices of winners, and suffering aforementioned paper cuts (no, I’m not kidding). We also announce the Retrospectives – the Widescreen Warrior addition to the... 

It’s that time of year again, as we reach the end of the Awards Season with the 2010 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awards, aka the Oscars. While we leave most of the awards hoopla to the annual Oscar Waffle discussion on our forums, we’d be crazy not to highlight the Oscars on the main site. Here are the nominees, along with some commentary on the major categories. This year the key... 

Historically, DreamWorks’ films either hit it out of the park or strike out swinging. Home runs like Shrek and Madagascar are quickly duplicated and sequeled to death, and the failures like The Road to El Dorado and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron are swept under the rug, never to be heard from again. Their newest offering, How to Train Your Dragon, was heavily hyped with a trailer during almost...