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...
Hip-Hop, Semantics “While the word “tautophrase” didn’t take off, the phenomenon it described blossomed, abetted by hip-hop” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 April 2015 While the word “tautophrase” didn’t take off, the phenomenon it described blossomed, abetted by...
Books “…if ArtScroll refuses to acknowledge that it has made a terrible error…, then one must conclude that ArtScroll is knowingly suppressing the words of a great rishon” Author Drew Kaplan Date 2 April 2015 …if ArtScroll’s mikraot gedolot becomes the standard, anyone who uses the commentaries of R....
Books, Sex “…men exist in a state of perpetual confusion about when, exactly, human females are receptive to the idea of having sex” Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 February 2015 What it tells us is this: Women are interested in sex. This may be...
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...
Television “The humor and pathos of “Louie” come not only from the occasional funny feelings that he has about his privileges…but also, more profoundly, from his knowledge that the conceptual and imaginative foundations of those privileges have crumbled beneath him” Author Drew Kaplan Date 22 December 2014 The humor and pathos of “Louie” come not only from the occasional funny feelings...