Tag: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
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Destroy All Monsters: The Meme-ification of ROGUE ONE
I’m consistently fascinated by how pop cultural mega-properties take hold in the discourse of the group they are ostensibly created for, the fans. There’s an interesting cycle created here.
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Destroy All Monsters: Michael Giacchino’s ROGUE ONE Rebellion
Since the announcement four years ago that Disney would buy Lucasfilm and begin making new Star Wars movies, this moment has been inevitable: excepting Kevin Kiner’s fine, fun work on the briefly-theatrically-released Clone Wars pilot, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is the first Star Wars feature film with music composed by someone other than…
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Toys 2K16: Report
I turned 40 this year. I mention that only because it’s worth noting that either directly or indirectly, my age drove my toy purchases up – not, I think, in a vain attempt to recapture my youth, but more because as of this year ID(officially)GAF. I make a good keep. I bought a place to live. I…
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Super Ticket Episode 8 – Rowgue Three
Mamo and Cinecast unite to form the Super Ticket! We are one with the force, the force is with us. We are one with the force, the force is with us. We are one with the force, the force is with us. We are one with the force, the force is with us. We are…
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Destroy All Monsters: Don’t Ruin Christmas The Way You Killed Summer, Hollywood
I’m as against the early proliferation of holiday decorations as the next man, and when I saw the tinsel going up in my local drug store last week – on October 25, and hanging, grotesquely, above the jack-o’-lanterns – I grumbled Scroogily to myself. And then I read the (also bizarrely early) holiday special of…
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Destroy All Monsters: Nostalgia, Loss, And Purple Rain
Turns out I had a few things to say about losing Prince. And, as usual, writing this made me feel better. Crank “Purple Rain” while you read this and try to get to the bottom in time for the “wooo-hooo-hooo-oooo.” It’s worth it.