Recent Viewings, Part 2

[Rev. Powell]

DOG MAN (2025): A dog-man cop (with a dodgy origin story) pursues a mad scientist cat intent on cloning himself and  unleashing a telepathic fish on the city. Decently animated, with a couple of nice gags, but wow, is it made for kids with short-attention spans. 2.5/5.

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (2025): In a mythical island where Vikings are at eternal war with dragons, one misfit boy befriends an injured dragon. Totally unnecessary but nevertheless entertaining live-action adaptation of the hit cartoon. 3.5/5.

[HappyGilmore]

Scream 5

Fifth movie on the series. Tara, played by Jenna Ortega, is brutally attacked by a new person taking on the Ghostface persona in the town of Woodsboro. She survives, but her sister Sam, comes home to care for her and apologize for using drugs and leaving the family.

More attacks happen, and we find out one of the victims is the nephew of Stu Macher, one of the killers in Scream 1. Sam admits to Tara that Sam caused their dad to leave a few years back, upon finding out that Samantha herself is actually the daughter of Billy Loomis, the second killer from part 1.

David Arquette, Courtney Cox and Neve Campbell reprise their roles from the first four movies, with Arquette's character getting killed.

Jack Quaid, son of Meg Ryan and Dennis Quaid, is hilarious in this, playing the real killer

[M.10rda]

Hot Take: These later sequels had been highly unnecessary with Arquette, totally unimaginable and pointless without Arquette.