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Psychics, Psychologists, and Gynecologists

WARNING! SPOILERS! Don’t Look Now – This movie starts with a girl drowning when she goes into a pond after a ball. Children in movies really need to stop chasing after objects, although I guess you can also meet frog princes that way. That’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Drugs, Fairy Tales, Health, Monsters, Music, Relationships, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged ariel, barry manilow, beetles, burgess meredith, carol channing, charo, dead ringers, don bluth, don't look now, donald sutherland, gilbert gottfried, gynecology, hans christian andersen, jeremy irons, jodi benson, mice, moles, psychics, shelley duvall, smile, stewart and cyril marcus, swallows, the little mermaid, thumbelina, toads |

The Patrician Puzzle

Ever since the beginning of the Discworld series, Terry Pratchett has been consistent in saying that the city of Ankh-Morpork is led by a Patrician, an autocrat who lacks the trappings of royalty. The plot of The Truth suggests that … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Discworld, Terry Pratchett | Tagged ankh-morpork, equal rites, havelock vetinari, jeremy irons, mad lord snapcase, mort, night watch, Patrician, samuel vimes, sourcery, the colour of magic, the truth, thief of time, wuffles |

You Must Avenge My Death, Kimba…I Mean Simba

The Lion King – Apparently this movie did a lot better than expected, originally being considered by Disney as sort of a lower-tier project, but emerging as the highest-grossing animated film of its time (it’s since been surpassed by Toy … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Revisiting Disney, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged claudius, hamlet, hyenas, jeremy irons, kimba the white lion, lions, meerkats, mufasa, nala, nathan lane, polonius, pumbaa, scar, shakespeare, simba, the lion king, timon, warthogs, zazu |

Lowest of the Lolita

I recently watched both movie versions of Lolita, the 1962 Stanley Kubrick one and the 1997 version with Jeremy Irons. I haven’t read the book, but general opinion seems to be that the latter was more faithful to the source … Continue reading →

Octarine Dreams

Last night, I watched the television adaptation of Terry Pratchett’s The Color of Magic, starring Sir David Jason as Rincewind. He’s apparently a big television star in the United Kingdom, which I suppose explains why they keep miscasting him in … Continue reading →

Posted in Discworld, Terry Pratchett, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged alberto malich, cohen the barbarian, david bradley, david jason, havelock vetinari, hogfather, hogswatch, jeremy irons, librarian, rincewind, sean astin, television, twoflower |