Oscar Dragon (This Week’s Movies)

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (Universal Pictures)

Links to my reviews published this week in the Herald and Seattle Weekly.

How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World. “This does seem like an actual ending, with a story that rounds itself off, instead of keeping strands hanging for the sake of an endless franchise.”

My annual Oscar predictions.

For the Scarecrow Video blog, I contribute a Seasoned Ticket column that recalls a 2007 interview with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, whose new film Never Look Away is nominated for Best Foreign Language film and Best Cinematography.