“Back before Buffy and Katniss, Besson was one of the only directors championing stories with women as action leads”
Back before Buffy and Katniss, Besson was one of the only directors championing stories...
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“I can’t believe ‘Across the Stars’ is in Star Wars – it’s so rich”
I still listen to this piece and I get chills. I can’t believe it’s...
“That’s the thing about Star Wars – it’s very all-encompassing, it’s old: it takes everything from the past and it packages it forward into the future”
That’s the thing about Star Wars – it’s very all-encompassing, it’s old: it takes...
“…the parade music at the end [of The Phantom Menace] is ‘The Emperor’s Theme’ in disguise”
“The Emperor’s Theme” shows up, you know, a couple times, so “The Emperor’s Theme”...
Star Wars “is a very, very rich soundtrack”
It is a very, very rich soundtrack; there’s so much going on and it’s...
Disney “usually does not return to classic characters in a willy-nilly manner”
Hollywood loves to revisit hits in ways that can be maddening — oh, that...
“…George Lucas crafted a saga that is endlessly fascinating and worthy of repeated viewings”
Star Wars has always been about the unknown and the unknowable, the instinct to...
“Star Wars intentionally challenged an audience who had no idea what they were getting themselves into”
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Star Wars used to just be one movie....
“Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock…don’t need to be good friends to be effective colleagues”
The differences that matter — that create comic friction and dramatic tension — are...
“Superhero team-building is a venerable comic-book practice, one that flourished in the ’60s and ’70s…more or less contemporaneously with the first voyages of the Starship Enterprise”
Nothing in popular culture, or in consumer capitalism, is ever really new. Superhero team-building...