Hip-Hop Drake “mines his past, not as a reason to change but as rationalization for his worst behavior” Author Drew Kaplan Date 28 June 2016 Starting with the ornate melancholia of “Take Care,” from 2011, Drake elevated the unfurling...
Hip-Hop “Drake’s songs will be unavoidable come summer…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 June 2016 Drake’s songs will be unavoidable come summer, as the soundtrack for sports highlights, inspiring...
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...
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...