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Category Archives: VoVat Goes to the Movies
There’s Only Three Real Monsters
Son of Kong – Released only nine months after the original King Kong, this does a bit to explain the aftermath of the first movie, in which Carl Denham brings a giant ape out of his natural habitat to New … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Christianity, Economics, Monsters, Mormonism, Relationships, Religion, Sexuality, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged anne rice, antonio banderas, apes, brad pitt, christian slater, crime, errol morris, interview with the vampire, joyce mckinney, king kong, kirsten dunst, manacled mormon case, rape, son of kong, tabloid, tabloids, tom cruise, vampires
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Has Boxing Been Good to You?
Three movie reviews this time, with SPOILERS for all of them. Compliance – This is a movie recommended by Beth’s cousin Dorothea, and it’s very difficult to watch, but not because it’s badly made. A guy calls a busy fast … Continue reading
Quests of Yore
Onward– This one was up my alley, as I tend to like fantasy and its accoutrements. It has an interesting premise, that a sword-and-sorcery kind of world developed modern technology and became one much like our own, except still inhabited … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Families, Games, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Prejudice, Relationships, Revisiting Disney, Technology, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged centaurs, cyclops, dragons, dungeons and dragons, elves, homophobia, manticores, onward, pixar
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It’s All About Soul
Soul – Pixar’s latest film is the first with a Black lead character, but far from the first that deals with metaphysical concepts and what makes life meaningful. Jamie Foxx voices Joe Gardner (hey, I know a guy online with … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Music, Philosophy, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged jamie foxx, jazz, pixar, soul, souls, tina fey
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Elemental Boogaloo
Frozen 2 – We watched this one last night, and it was a bit of a palate cleanser after hearing about fascists storming the Capitol all day. I’ve said before that I thought the original Frozen was a solid film, … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Authors, Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Magic, Monsters, Mythology, Relationships, Revisiting Disney, Star Wars, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged agnarr of arendelle, anna of arendelle, classical elements, elementals, elsa of arendelle, frozen, frozen 2, giants, horses, nokks, olaf, runeard of arendelle, salamanders, trolls
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No Rules, Just Wrong
Class Action Park – A documentary about Action Park, an actual place in New Jersey that sounds totally made up when people talk about it. It was a poorly run but profitable amusement park where numerous guests were seriously injured … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Dreams, Families, Holidays, Relationships, Thanksgiving, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged action park, amusement parks, class action park, deregulation, eugene mulvihill, incest, parker posey, president john f. kennedy, president ronald reagan, presidential assassinations, the house of yes, tori spelling
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I Know Those Words, But That Sign Makes No Sense
White Christmas – I guess this was the last of our Christmas viewing for the year, although it’s mostly not even about Christmas. It’s a sort of a spiritual follow-up to Holiday Inn, which I haven’t seen, but apparently has blackface … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Christmas, History, Holidays, Humor, Music, Prejudice, Relationships, Science, Television, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged albert einstein, bing crosby, danny devito, danny kaye, death to smoochy, edward norton, ernest rutherford, holiday inn, irving berlin, jon stewart, marie curie, puppini sisters, robin williams, tasmanian devil, white christmas, world war ii, yahoo serious, young einstein
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Drag Out the Dickens
I can’t quite recall what my introduction to A Christmas Carol actually was. I have a memory of my dad reading it to me as a kid, quite possibly an abridged version, even though it’s pretty short as is. I … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Christmas, Comics, Holidays, Humor, Muppets, Plays, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged a christmas carol, bob cratchit, charles dickens, clarence nash, donald duck, ebenezer scrooge, fozzie bear, fun and fancy free, ghosts, giants, goofy, jacob marley, jim henson, kermit the frog, mickey and the beanstalk, mickey mouse, mickey's christmas carol, miss piggy, mr. mole, mr. toad, mr. water rat, peg-leg pete, rizzo the rat, robin the frog, scooter, scrooge mcduck, the adventures of ichabod and mr. toad, the muppet christmas carol, the wind in the willows, tiny tim, wayne allwine, willie the giant
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Ho Ho Home Invasion
I usually don’t like to make two of the same kind of post in a row, but ’tis the season, so here are some more reviews of Christmas-related audiovisual media. Santa Claus – I’d heard of this 1959 Mexican movie, … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Catholicism, Christianity, Christmas, Food, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Mythology, Religion, Television, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies, Zelda
Tagged angela lansbury, angels, cherubim, devils, dogs, donkeys, frank conniff, gene autry, irving berlin, jesus, joseph, lucifer, merlin, mystery science theater 3000, nativity, nestor the long-eared christmas donkey, rankin/bass, reindeer, roger miller, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, santa claus, santa claus vs. the devil, sheep, the first christmas, the story of the first christmas snow, three wise men, trace beaulieu, virgin mary, white christmas
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Goodness Makes the Badness Go Away
Babes in Toyland (1961) – My friend Jared Davis actually wrote about a whole bunch of different adaptations of this story, and how they differ, so you might want to check that out for some additional details and opinions. It … Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Christmas, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Music, Mythology, Nursery Rhymes, Revisiting Disney, Television, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies
Tagged annette funicello, babes in toyland, carroll o'connor, ed wynn, father christmas, gargamel, glo friends, glo worm, home for christmas, homelessness, little bo peep, lorenzo music, mary mary quite contrary, moose, papa smurf, ray bolger, reindeer, sally struthers, santa claus, saved by the bell, smurfs, st. nicholas, the glo friends save christmas, the smurfs' christmas special, tom tom the piper's son, trees, witches, wizards
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