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OV479 – How to Train Your Dragon (2025) & Echo Valley (2025) – Guest: Joe Shearer – The Obsessive Viewer – Movie Review Podcast

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This week, Joe Shearer joins me to review DreamWorks’ live-action remake, How to Train Your Dragon in a feature review and then, in this week’s secondary review, I share my thoughts on the new AppleTV+ original movie, Echo Valley. We also discuss recent movie and TV news, screenings around Indianapolis, and more.

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Mic Info

• Matt: ElectroVoice RE20 into RØDEcaster Pro II (Firmware: 1.5.4)
• Joe: Tonor USB Microphone via Google Meet

Timestamps

• Show Start – 00:28
• Introducing Joe – 02:15
• Screening in Indy – 08:02
• News Before the Reviews – 17:51

Feature Review

• How to Train Your Dragon (2025) – 33:29
• Spoiler – 1:13:55
• Exit Joe – 1:41:06

Secondary Review

• Echo Valley (2025) – 1:46:25

• Closing the Ep – 2:03:57
• Patreon Clip – 2:05:36

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