Movies, Star Wars “Projects once thought impossible became possible—and, for Lucas, that meant his long-imagined but never-realized Star Wars prequels” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 August 2015 “It was like a giant switch was thrown overnight,” Ed Catmull says about Jurassic...
Star Wars “…in the Clone Wars, even the soldiers on both sides were manufactured goods. The Republic and the Confederacy had been partners in the same corrupt game.” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 July 2015 The Clone Wars were yet another thing to be upset about. Everything about that...
Books, Star Wars “The Jedi…had unwittingly trained their students to be the perfect fugitives, able to cut and run at any moment” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 June 2015 The Jedi had always preached against forming connections, to prevent their acolytes from putting...
Books, Movies, Sex “…the landscape in which “Fifty Shades of Grey” has found its audience, with a story almost perfectly suited to this dream: A fantasy of being…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 February 2015 …our sexual egalitarians don’t want to shut down the party or end the bacchanal....
Movies “…the cinematic kiss is open to endless interpretation” Author Drew Kaplan Date 8 February 2015 …the cinematic kiss is open to endless interpretation. Scroll through the famous kisses of...
Movies Bro Comedies’ “refusal of maturity also invites some critical reflection about just what adulthood is supposed to mean” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 January 2015 The Updikean and Rothian heroes of the 1960s and 1970s chafed against the demands...
Movies, Parenthood Kissing scenes in movies are “a great opportunity to talk about values around sex, normative feelings of desire and arousal, as well as how to teach about boundaries” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 December 2014 When you let kids watch violent scenes in a movie, but run to turn...
Movies, New Testament “…it’s possible for a popular narrative to be susceptible to an allegorical reading and still be engaging mostly for its spectacle…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 December 2014 …it’s possible for a popular narrative to be susceptible to an allegorical reading and...
Movies “Wonder Woman is so hard to put on film because the fight for women’s rights has gone so badly” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 September 2014 The much cited difficulties regarding putting Wonder Woman on film—Wonder Woman isn’t big enough,...
Movies, Television “The fantasy world of television and movies…have become a simulacrum of the real world” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 July 2014 The fantasy world of television and movies that emanate from a giant screen, TV...