Movies, Star Wars “The approach Abrams arrived at was to go back to the techniques Lucas used the first time around” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 March 2016 The approach Abrams arrived at was to go back to the techniques Lucas used...
Movies “A sequel like last May’s ‘Avengers: Age of Ultron,’ from Marvel, is less a self-contained film than a loose amalgam of ongoing stories” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 March 2016 A sequel like last May’s “Avengers: Age of Ultron,” from Marvel, is less a...
Movies, Star Wars “Star Wars is seemingly self-aware of its role as the new religious storyteller” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 February 2016 Star Wars is seemingly self-aware of its role as the new religious storyteller. The...
Movies, Star Wars “Disney owns the three biggest storytelling platforms in the world. … They push our wonder buttons, but like all good stories, they are also fountains of potential interpretation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 February 2016 Disney owns the three biggest storytelling platforms in the world. They own Star Wars,...
Movies, Religion “You may have been led to believe that Religion and Hollywood are at war. Don’t believe it” Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 February 2016 You may have been led to believe that Religion and Hollywood are at war....
Star Wars “It’s laughable to suggest that any reveal of a Darth Jar Jar twist could have been met with applause rather than derision” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 November 2015 It’s laughable to suggest that any reveal of a Darth Jar Jar twist could...
Star Wars ” Lumpawarroo thereby leaves us with Schrödinger’s Lucas, a creature suspended in creative superposition, simultaneously brilliant and foolish” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 November 2015 …to propose that Jar Jar was an evil genius, one has to accept that...
Movies, Star Wars “…whenever a “Force Awakens” tidbit has been divulged, the reaction has been like food sprinkled over a piranha tank” Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 September 2015 Interest in “The Force Awakens” is already so extreme that Disney knows its safest...
Movies “Members of the Marvel security team on the set spoke of ‘bloggers’ the way Dick Cheney once invoked a ‘global terror network'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 August 2015 Members of the Marvel security team on the set spoke of ‘‘bloggers’’ the way...
Movies, Star Wars “People don’t give George [Lucas] the credit that he deserves” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 August 2015 People don’t give George the credit that he deserves. The work he did on...