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The Multiversal Trendsetter
SPOILERS for all four movies! Soft & Quiet – A group of annoyingly entitled women meet up for a new group, which turns out to be a white supremacist organization. They use the standard racist rhetoric, with all its obvious … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Characters, Comics, Corporations, Families, Humor, Jared Davis, L. Frank Baum, Magic, Monsters, Oz, Oz Authors, Prejudice, Relationships, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged america chavez, black bolt, bobcat goldthwait, bruce campbell, captain america, captain marvel, cowardly lion, doctor strange, doctor strange in the multiverse of madness, dr. christine palmer, dr. jonathan ohnn, dreamworks, fantastic four, gwen stacy, illuminati, inhumans, ironic racism, jane horrocks, jason priestley, kathy griffin, leonardo da vinci, lion of oz, lion of oz and the badge of courage, Marvel Cinematic Universe, marvel comics, miguel o'hara, miles morales, monica rambeau, multiverse, patrick stewart, peggy carter, peni parker, peter parkedcar, peter parker, professor charles xavier, racism, reed richards, roger baum, sam raimi, scarlet witch, silly ozbuls, soft and quiet, spider-ham, spider-man, spider-man across the spider-verse, spider-man into the spider-verse, spider-man noir, spider-punk, superheroes, tim curry, vulture, white supremacy, wicked witch of the east, wizard of oz, x-men |
Killers, Corpses, Cartoons, and Conductors
Here are my thoughts on the four movies I’ve watched most recently, all with SPOILERS. Body Bags – A 1993 film consisting of three different segments, the first two directed by John Carpenter and the last by Tobe Hooper. Carpenter … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Families, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Revisiting Disney, Snobbery, Television, The Simpsons, Toys, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a goofy movie, aliens, body bags, brad dourif, bride of chucky, cate blanchett, child's play, chucky, curse of chucky, david warner, debbie harry, dolls, donald duck, eye, fiona dourif, freddy krueger, goof troop, goofy, hair, hell toupee, horror, John Carpenter, mark hamill, max goof, mickey mouse, murder, peg-leg pete, sam raimi, shocker, tar, the gas station, tobe hooper, twiggy, wes craven |
Screw Your Eye
Darkman – Back in the nineties, there was a program they showed around Halloween for a few years called Horror Hall of Fame, hosted by Robert Englund and the Crypt-Keeper, that discussed recent horror movies. Sometimes they had to stretch … Continue reading →
Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Celebrities, Holidays, Humor, Names, Television, Thanksgiving | Tagged amblimation, crows, danny elfman, darkman, horror hall of fame, jay leno, john goodman, julia child, liam neeson, macy's thanksgiving day parade, martin short, parasaurolophus, professor neweyes, professor screweyes, pterodactyls, sam raimi, steven spielberg, triceratops, tyrannosaurus rex, walter cronkite, we're back! a dinosaur's story |
Spidey, I’m Coming Home
Spider-Man: Homecoming – This was the only movie from the Marvel Cinematic Universe I hadn’t yet seen. I saw all three of the Sam Raimi Spider-Man movies, and didn’t really have any interest in the Andrew Garfield ones, although I … Continue reading →
Posted in Comics, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged aaron davis, avengers, captain america civil war, flash thompson, iron man, j. jonah jameson, michael keaton, miles morales, sam raimi, spider-man, spider-man homecoming, the avengers, tom holland, vulture |
We Have to Keep Our Secret Identities Secret
There’s quite a bit to the superhero genre that doesn’t always stand up to close scrutiny, and there are entire websites devoted to detailing some of the more ridiculous storylines, or sometimes just silly out-of-context panels. This Cracked article from … Continue reading →
Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Television | Tagged batman, captain america, christopher nolan, darkwing duck, iron man, j. jonah jameson, lois lane, lone ranger, Marvel Cinematic Universe, marvel comics, megavolt, sam raimi, scarlet pimpernel, secret identities, spider-man, superman, the incredible hulk, thor, zorro |
What a Tangled Web We Weave
Thanks largely to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and SamuraiFrog’s series of blog posts on Marvel Comics, I’ve gained somewhat of an interest in reading some of the classic superhero material. It doesn’t appear that the Brooklyn library system has all … Continue reading →
Posted in Book Reviews, Comics | Tagged fantastic four, j. jonah jameson, Marvel Cinematic Universe, marvel comics, marvel masterworks, sam raimi, spider-man, stan lee, steve ditko, the amazing spider-man |
Sign My Poodle, S’il Vous Plait
My look back at “Weird Al” Yankovic’s catalog moves into the new millennium with Poodle Hat from 2003. The title apparently derived from a time when Al’s poodle Bela sat on his head. It’s kind of unusual among his album … Continue reading →
Posted in Albums, Humor, Music, Television, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged avril lavigne, backstreet boys, beck, Ben Folds, billy joel, bo diddley, bob dylan, bruce springsteen, buddy holly, clarence clemons, dweezil zappa, eminem, frank zappa, hives, jerry lewis, kenny loggins, korn, limp bizkit, nelly, palindromes, parody, poodle hat, prince, sam raimi, spider-man, straight outta lynwood, strokes, uhf, vines, white stripes, willem dafoe |
The Tired Trailer of Oz
There are several Oz-related movies in the works now, one of which is Oz: The Great and Powerful, telling how the Wizard first arrived in Oz. Fans of the expanded Oz series might know that this topic was covered both … Continue reading →
Posted in Hugh Pendexter, L. Frank Baum, Oz, Oz Authors, Ruth Plumly Thompson | Tagged alexander volkov, captain salt in oz, donald abbott, dorothy of oz, glinda, james franco, michelle williams, mila kunis, mombi, movie trailers, oz: the great and powerful, ozma, rachel weisz, sam raimi, the patchwork girl of oz, the wonderful wizard of oz, wizard of oz |
Dorothy and the Dummies
Every once in a while, rumors of a new Oz movie surface, but very few of them ever actually make it to production. Did the poor box office showing of Return to Oz back in 1985 make Oz seem unprofitable? … Continue reading →
Posted in Oz | Tagged billina, dark oz, donald abbott, dorothy, dorothy of oz, drew barrymore, hugh pendexter, jack pumpkinhead, john r. neill, l. frank baum, movies, nome king, return to oz, roger baum, sam raimi, surrender dorothy, the wizard of oz, tik-tok, todd mcfarlane, wicked witch of the west |