Star Wars “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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 May 2017 That’s the thing about Star Wars – it’s very all-encompassing, it’s old: it takes...
Movies, Music, Star Wars “…the parade music at the end [of The Phantom Menace] is ‘The Emperor’s Theme’ in disguise” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 May 2017 “The Emperor’s Theme” shows up, you know, a couple times, so “The Emperor’s Theme”...
Music, Star Wars Star Wars “is a very, very rich soundtrack” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 March 2017 It is a very, very rich soundtrack; there’s so much going on and it’s...
Movies Disney “usually does not return to classic characters in a willy-nilly manner” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 March 2017 Hollywood loves to revisit hits in ways that can be maddening — oh, that...
Movies, Star Wars “…George Lucas crafted a saga that is endlessly fascinating and worthy of repeated viewings” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 January 2017 Star Wars has always been about the unknown and the unknowable, the instinct to...
Movies, Star Wars “Star Wars intentionally challenged an audience who had no idea what they were getting themselves into” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 January 2017 Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Star Wars used to just be one movie....
Movies, Work “Dr. McCoy and Mr. Spock…don’t need to be good friends to be effective colleagues” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 September 2016 The differences that matter — that create comic friction and dramatic tension — are...
Entertainment, Movies, Pop Culture, Television “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” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 September 2016 Nothing in popular culture, or in consumer capitalism, is ever really new. Superhero team-building...
Movies, Star Wars “For A New Hope, the crew scavenged interesting- looking spare parts from model kits and junkyards to make the ships and vehicles” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 April 2016 For A New Hope, the crew scavenged interesting-looking spare parts from model kits and...
Movies “At the moment that our foundational religious stories began to echo too distantly in the past, a new storytelling rose to supplement what time threatened to take from us” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 March 2016 Hollywood is not only a fun factory of vapid entertainment. At times, Hollywood plays...