Tag: Star Wars
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How we live now (in the star wars)
Last month I found myself thinking, as one does, about lightsabres — my lightsabre, more specifically; well, one of my lightsabres, to be more specific still, since I’ve owned several.
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Thank goodness this isn’t a newsletter
Correction: a *paid* newsletter that you expect me to write on any kind of a cadence
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May the 4th is not Star Wars Day
The joke is bad and you should feel bad This piece, originally published on TIFF’s The Review on May 4 2017, remains relevant every year. Star Wars is meant to be seen on a big screen. It is meant to be seen with its original, non-digital effects intact. And its arrival into the world is…
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Back foot
I spent the weekend playing D&D. A fine thing. Thirteen hours on Saturday and another 7-ish on Sunday. Returned to the city with no real sense of what the hell was going on or what I had to do next; a blank slate. Consequently, I’ve spent the week feeling like I was always a step…
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Very Rapidly: Why Does THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT Feel So Slow?
There are a lot of reasons The Book of Boba Fett isn’t hitting with fans (creepy CGI Luke much?) but the big one, for us, is the PACING… which is ironic, because pacing used to be one of the defining attributes of what made Star Wars storytelling so much fun. George Lucas was great at…
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Destroy All Monsters: Ben Solo Was The Key To The Star Wars Sequel Trilogy, And JJ Abrams Never Noticed
For no reason whatsoever, I wrote 3,000 words about Ben Solo yesterday. Well, here they are.
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Duel of the Fates: I’m Poe Dameron
As teased on last month’s CLUE: THE MOVIE table read, I’ve been cast as Poe Dameron in a new table read. So 1/ I can basically retire from table reading now, and 2/ you can now listen to me as Poe in a reading of Colin Trevorrow and Derek Connolly’s unproduced screenplay for Star Wars…
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DIAHANN CARROLL (1935-2019)
Groundbreaking actress, singer, and activist Diahann Carroll died at the beginning of this month at the age of 84, and we’re here to talk about some of her work: Carmen Jones (1954), Hurry Sundown (1967), Claudine (1974) and — of course — The Star Wars Holiday Special.