Tag: movies
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Alrighty Then: pop culture references that… don’t.
Recently I’ve started paying attention to various ways our everyday language is strange (being in a place where people commonly don’t quite understand one another even though we can all speak “English” does that to you). Our use of expressions and idioms, for instance, must confuse some people not from the US to no end. […]
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The Hobbit: Reactions to the new trailer
If you haven’t heard yet, the NEW HOBBIT TRAILER has just been released. Haven’t seen it yet? Go. Watch it here. I’ll wait. ……. Done? Good. Okay, my initial reaction was just plain excitement. Now please bear with me while I give you some background. It’s been ten years since Fellowship of the Ring was […]
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Philippines Video
Here’s the video made for our trip. I hope you like it! (Also, I make a voice cameo….hehe)
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Revisiting Childhood: The Lion King
Tonight I went to see the Lion King in 3D and I have to admit that I got chills when the sun first popped into view and the music started. It’s a great piece of music for one, but also because it was fun to see something that I remember seeing in theaters. In fact, […]
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Updated entry for Cowboys and Aliens
So I keep getting hits on my blog for people looking for the meaning behind the symbolic hummingbird in the movie Cowboys and Aliens. I didn’t say my interpretations in the original entry about the movie to prevent spoilers, but as the movie is now several weeks old, I updated that post. You can view […]
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Review of War of the Worlds, or…
…Little Girl Shrieks for Two Hours and Does Nothing Else. So tonight I saw War of the Worlds with some friends (it was DVRed) and while I appreciated the HG Wells source and his wonderful ideas about alien invasion, I didn’t quite get some of the character bits. For instance, the main characters in the […]
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Cowboys and Aliens and… humming birds?
Tonight I went to see Cowboys & Aliens. It is exactly what the title says: a movie about cowboys and aliens. I read a Time editorial where the author was singing the praises of literal movie titles, and I have to say I agree that sometimes it’s nice to have a movie that just says […]
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Harry Potter Movie Commentary: Deathly Hallows pt 2
Last night I went to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows pt 2, and I think it’s been long enough for me to have processed a few things. My observations are below the “more” cut to contain the spoilers.
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My life in movies
You can learn a lot about a person from the movies on their shelf. For now let’s take a little trip into the movie shelf in my head. Films That Remind Me of Childhood: Back to the Future is still the first movie I can remember seeing in theaters. My “first movie” was Follow That […]
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A pirate’s life for me..?
Let’s play a game… Sing along if you know it! “One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn’t belong!” See it? There you go. The Black Pearl. More photos are found in my photo blog, once they’re uploaded. [update: You can find them starting here, but there aren’t […]
Joanna Volavka 