Tag Archives: george lucas

The Little Robot Girl

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Nathan

WARNING! SPOILERS for all three movies reviewed herein! Speak No Evil – Beth tends to like bleak, hopeless movies, while I tend more towards the whimsical and fantastic. Obviously there are exceptions for both of us, but one sort of … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Art, Authors, Cartoons, Fairy Tales, Families, Humor, Language, Magic, Mega Man, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Technology, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies, William Shakespeare | Tagged a midsummer night's dream, artificial intelligence, bog king, fairies, george lucas, horror, m3gan, murder, nutcracker suite, robots, speak no evil, strange magic, sugar plum fairy | Leave a comment

Coping with Immortality

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Nathan

We’re up to the 1978 Oziana, with a cover by Bill Eubank that appears to be partially based on a John R. Neill illustration from Kabumpo in Oz. Then there’s an Oz-E-Gag by Eubank, comparing The Wizard of Oz to … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Characters, Comics, Games, History, Humor, John R. Neill, L. Frank Baum, Language, Magic, Magic Items, March Laumer, Melody Grandy, Music, Mythology, Names, Oz, Oz Authors, Places, Poetry, Religion, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars, Winnie-the-Pooh | Tagged atlantis, bears, bees, beyond the rainbow, bill eubank, bronson pinchot, clara jean curzon, daniel k. cox, dave billman, deadly desert, dorothy gale, emerald city, ereol, espa, fairies, forest of burzee, george lucas, george van buren, gili bar-hillel, glinda, glinda of oz, great detective, harry mongold, how ducky!, hugo ball, immigration, immortality, in other lands than oz, jay delkin, jenny jump, joe bongiorno, johanna buchner, joseph campbell, julius caesar, kabumpo in oz, latin, lau shiu fan, luke skywalker, lurline, magic belt, magic picture, menankypoo, number nine, ojo, orks, oz-e-gags, oziana, ozma, patchwork girl, paul ritz, pillars of hercules, pin-up, pixies, plato, princess leia, queen coo-ee-oh, queen zixi of ix, red jinn, sawhorse, scraps' ditty, shaggy man, sherlock holmes, talking heads, the adventure of the missing belt, the green dolphin of oz, the lost king of oz, the patchwork girl of oz, the seven blue mountains of oz, the threat of civil-oz-ation, the wonderful wizard of oz, the woozy's sticky end, the woozy's tale, the woozy's tricky beginning, tippetarius in oz, tollydiggle, toto, transformation, vincent ward, water of oblivion, wizards, woozy, zim greenleaf, zimbo and the magic amulet, zimboobo | 4 Comments

The Force Sets Its Snooze Alarm

Posted on January 14, 2016 by Nathan

I finally got around to seeing Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and here are my thoughts on the film. I should warn you that there are SPOILERS in this post. I feel like I’m the last one to see this, … Continue reading →

Posted in L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson, Star Wars, Uncategorized, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a new hope, bb-8, captain phasma, chewbacca, darth vader, expanded universe, finn, george lucas, han solo, jedi, kylo ren, lightsabers, luke skywalker, princess leia, rey, robots, supreme leader snoke, the force awakens | 11 Comments

Mashed Potatoes Can Be Your Friends

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Nathan

Released in 1985, “Weird Al” Yankovic’s third album, Dare to Be Stupid, showed higher production values than the first two. Al was more of an established artist by this time, and the label was presumably willing to spend more on … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Music, Star Wars, Television, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged 27, accordion, al-tv, cyndi lauper, dare to be stupid, darth vader, devo, duran duran, eric idle, george lucas, george of the jungle, ghostbusters, hall and oates, harvey leeds, huey lewis, johnny dangerously, julia waters, kinks, luke skywalker, madonna, mark hamill, mark mothersbaugh, maxine waters, michael jackson, mystery science theater 3000, nena, peter and the wolf, polka, ray davies, return of the jedi, ted turner, the empire strikes back, the food album, this island earth, top secret!, transformers, twisted sister, wendy carlos, yoda | 4 Comments

Fandom Is the Path to the Dark Side

Posted on January 14, 2014 by Nathan

The People vs. George Lucas – This 2010 documentary presents different sides in the debate over whether Lucas ruined his legacy, and whether he had the right to do so. Not surprisingly, most of the focus is on the edits … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, J.R.R. Tolkien, Star Wars, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged bilbo baggins, emperor palpatine, george lucas, gollum, greedo, han solo, jar jar binks, lord of the rings, midichlorians, the hobbit, the people vs. george lucas | 7 Comments

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