Nothing in popular culture, or in consumer capitalism, is ever really new. Superhero team-building is a venerable comic-book practice, one that flourished […]
For A New Hope, the crew scavenged interesting-looking spare parts from model kits and junkyards to make the ships and vehicles. Tomkins […]
Hollywood is not only a fun factory of vapid entertainment. At times, Hollywood plays an important role. The role of the ancient […]
The approach Abrams arrived at was to go back to the techniques Lucas used the first time around, the time that really […]
A sequel like last May’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” from Marvel, is less a self-contained film than a loose amalgam of ongoing […]
Star Wars is seemingly self-aware of its role as the new religious storyteller. The people in Star Wars: The Force Awakens have […]
Disney owns the three biggest storytelling platforms in the world. They own Star Wars, Marvel, and Pixar. To me, that’s like owning […]
You may have been led to believe that Religion and Hollywood are at war. Don’t believe it. Today’s Hollywood is religion’s best […]
It’s laughable to suggest that any reveal of a Darth Jar Jar twist could have been met with applause rather than derision. […]
…to propose that Jar Jar was an evil genius, one has to accept that Lucas himself was a genius as well. Lumpawarroo […]
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