Category Archives: VoVat Goes to the Movies

Nobody Cares Like a Bear

Posted on June 10, 2017 by

The Care Bears were a line of characters originally created for greeting cards, which was kind of a thing at the time. That also happened with Strawberry Shortcake, the Popples, and Rainbow Brite, among others. They’re sort of teddy bears … Continue reading →

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Diana, Diana, Diana, I Would Die for You

Posted on June 8, 2017 by

Wonder Woman – I hadn’t seen any of the last few movies based on DC Comics (I don’t think I have since the Christopher Nolan Batman trilogy), and I hadn’t heard good things about them. I got the impression they … Continue reading →

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Everybody Now Engage, Yeah You Know It’s All the Rage

Posted on June 4, 2017 by

Here are my thoughts on the ninth and tenth Star Trek films, replete with spoilers. Insurrection – The plot of this one is centered around a planet where some kind of weird radiation concentrated in its rings keeps the inhabitants … Continue reading →

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Guess You’ll Never Grow a Clue

Posted on June 2, 2017 by

Clue – We saw this 1985 film at the Alamo Draft House on Tuesday. I don’t think I’d previously seen it all the way through, but I do remember seeing most of it. It had been a box office flop, … Continue reading →

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Magic, She Wrote

Posted on May 29, 2017 by

Bedknobs and Broomsticks – I seem to recall liking this movie pretty well as a kid, although even then I recognized it as kind of a second-rate Mary Poppins. It’s again set in England with precocious children, a stern caretaker … Continue reading →

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Planet and Son Reunion

Posted on May 12, 2017 by

Guardians of the Galaxy, Volume 2 – I loved the first movie, and I was definitely looking forward to this one, expecting humor, space travel, music from the seventies and eighties, and family dynamics among the team. And yes, it … Continue reading →

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Everybody’s Doing It, the Jean-Luc Picard

Posted on April 30, 2017 by

We’re up to the Star Trek films using the cast of The Next Generation, where they drink Romulan Pepsi instead of Klingon Coke, and a British guy playing a French guy is the captain of the Enterprise. I think this … Continue reading →

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