shakespeare – VoVatia (original) (raw)

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 |

Fictional Characters Walk Among Us

As a fairy tale fan, I recently decided I should try watching Once Upon a Time. Most of the episodes aren’t available, but I did see the pilot and the most recent ones, which were On Demand. It’s made by … Continue reading →

Posted in Authors, Book Reviews, Characters, Comics, Dreams, Fairy Tales, Greek Mythology, Jasper Fforde, Lewis Carroll, Mythology, Nursery Crime, Nursery Rhymes, Once Upon a Time, Oz, Television, Thursday Next | Tagged alice's adventures in wonderland, bill willingham, disney, edward lear, fables, jack pumpkinhead, jiminy cricket, king midas, lost, mad hatter, march hare, ozma, pinocchio, rumpelstiltskin, shakespeare, snow white, snow white and the seven dwarfs, the adventures of pinocchio, the big over easy, the fourth bear |

Darn It to Hecate

I’d been meaning to write about Hecate for a while now, so since it’s about time for a mythology post, how about now? Perhaps my earliest source for the names and functions of the gods was an old encyclopedia that … Continue reading →

Posted in Greek Mythology, Mythology, Religion, Wicca | Tagged artemis, hecate, hecuba of troy, hesiod, kronos, macbeth, shakespeare, titanomachy, titans, zeus |