Tag: Star Wars
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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.
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THE LAST JEDI Was A Star Wars Fan’s Star Wars Film… Until It Wasn’t
“[The Last Jedi] was the first time I’d seen a Star Wars film that had clearly been made by someone who loved the series as much as, and had thought about it as obsessively as, me.”
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Deathwatch: SHINOBU HASHIMOTO (1918-2018)
This prolific screenwriter collaborated with Akira Kurosawa through the most fruitful period of that director’s career; accidentally helped birth STAR WARS; and with RASHOMON, may have permanently redefined the concept and structure of narrative itself. This month we look at THE OUTRAGE (1964, an American remake of RASHOMON) and Masaki Kobayashi’s masterful 1962 film HARA…
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Rey Before Rey: Padmé Is the Protagonist of THE PHANTOM MENACE
Among many things, one area where The Phantom Menace falls behind the other Star Wars films is its lack of a clear hero’s journey, driving the narrative as Luke’s drives Star Wars and Rey’s drives The Force Awakens. Fans like myself have debated Episode I’s weird plot — and its issues — for years, and one question that comes up…
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Deathwatch: CARRIE FISHER (1956-2016)
With The Last Jedi in theatres, and by way of commemorating the one-year anniversary of her death, we look at the life and career of the indomitable Carrie Fisher, with side-trips to Postcards From The Edge and Wishful Drinking.
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The Toy Report: 2017
I don’t think I’ve enjoyed collecting this much in over a decade. I may honestly have taken it a bit too far; new job, new outlook on life, living high on the hog and buying every goddamn thing I set my eyes on. I cancelled a few pre-orders; re-sold a few things that showed up…
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Why Rey
“I didn’t know there was this much green in the whole galaxy.” I take inordinate ownership of Rey. Not ownership in the “I made her” sense, but rather, in that she is my representative in the Star Wars universe. I don’t know if it’s true that when I was a kid, I dreamed of a female Jedi, following…
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Destroy All Monsters: All Monsters Destroyed
“All Monsters Destroyed?” Well no, of course not. I wish the things that became the common themes in my weekly column at Screen Anarchy over the course of the past 4+ years could be called “resolved” — but really, they’ve just become part and parcel of the fabric of our conversations around pop culture in ever-increasing…