Tag: movies
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As Seen On… July and August 2014
Well here it is August and I’m not doing BEDA this year. There has been entirely too much happening in the last few weeks to manage that. I know, all the excuses, etc, but here’s what I was doing elsewhere just the same! On Geek Girl Pen Pals: Movie reviews, movie reviews, movie reviews! Dawn…
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As seen on… June 2014
Hey hey hey, here’s another monthly wrap-up post thing! I’m about a week late because things have been super busy since July 1st. At any rate, here’s what I wrote about when I wasn’t here (and I wasn’t here much, was I?). On +5 Charisma at Geek Girl Pen Pals… I featured a couple of…
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Thoughts on The Desolation of Smaug… A small hobbity commentary
I saw The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug this weekend and here are some of my thoughts on it, slightly out of order and really just as they occur to me. My full review can be found here. 1) While I don’t generally mind changes in book-to-movie adaptations, I feel like this movie was strongest when…
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Movie Commentary: Thoughts on Thor, the Dark World
Here there be Spoilers, Sweetie.
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Wizardly Commentary: Thoughts on Oz, the Great and Powerful
((SPOILER WARNING)) Tonight we saw Oz, the Great and Powerful, the new movie from Disney that is a prequel to The Wizard of Oz. Strange, perhaps, to release a prequel 74 years after the original movie, but maybe we needed this long for Oz to permeate our pop culture, and for us to be ready for another…
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Thoughts on Jurassic Park, 3D.
Last night I saw Jurassic Park in 3D. The interesting thing (to me) about this movie is that I remember when it came out in theaters, but I never went to see it. Maybe because I wasn’t quite 11 and the movie was PG-13 (though, seeing it now, it’s a very tame PG-13 compared to current…
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The Volavkas do L.A. Kind of.
Since our purpose in going to Los Angeles was to visit the La Brea tar pits, J and I didn’t really plan on doing much sight seeing. That was for another day, another trip. However… The two hour drive TO La Brea was over three hours BACK to San Diego (as we’d stayed at the…
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Kitties filmed themselves
The other day I got home from the zoo, went to take a shower, and came back to find one of the kitties playing with my phone. I tried to take a photo of her, but it didn’t work, so I left again… but I the camera feature stayed on it seems and the kitties…
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Thoughts on Chimpanzee (the movie, not the animal)
As this weekend was Earth Day, it was also the opening weekend for the new Disneynature movie, Chimpanzee. And as I have every year, I went with a group from the zoo to go see it. It’s always interesting to go see an animal movie w/ zoo people because we see things with that perspective. So…
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Movie disappointment turns out to be fun anyway
Tonight I had passes to the premier of Chimpanzee, the new Disneynature movie for Earth Day. Well, I got there with my friend and we discovered that a bunch of “Disney people” (I’m assuming the ones from Aulani) had all “RSVPd” (which wasn’t an option even offered to us) and the theater was full. Disappointing.…
Joanna Volavka 