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....
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...
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...
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,...