STAR WARS Legends: High Fantasy on Endor in the EWOKS Movies
It is an axiomatic truth that if you try to describe Star Wars as a science fiction story, some nerd is going to crawl out of the woodwork and sneer, “actually, Star Wars is a work of science fantasy.” As insufferable as these dorks may be, they’re not exactly wrong. Star Wars borrows a lot … Continue reading STAR WARS Legends: High Fantasy on Endor in the EWOKS Movies
The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 1 – IRON MAN
I love timelines. I’m obsessed with them. I love tracking the ways events fit together in a broader context – how each piece influences and is influenced by every other in an endless chain. I also have a special fondness for fictional timelines that are just complete horseshit. Where the people in charge were just … Continue reading The Unofficial MCU Timeline, Part 1 – IRON MAN
THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL At 40
On Friday, November 17, 1978, at 8 o’clock p.m., The Star Wars Holiday Special was broadcast for the first and only time on CBS. In the forty years since, it has become something of a contemporary myth; a bizarre, misguided, mistake that many knew about but few outside of its initial 13 million viewers had … Continue reading THE STAR WARS HOLIDAY SPECIAL At 40
Fantasy Under Construction: Tales from Evermore’s Pre-Opening Party (A NoPro Adventure)
We must begin with a disclaimer: though I (and my six traveling companions) did purchase tickets to Evermore’s pre-opening party, we received notice after we were already en route that our tickets would be comped because we were traveling from out of town to an event that was not going to be finished to the … Continue reading Fantasy Under Construction: Tales from Evermore’s Pre-Opening Party (A NoPro Adventure)
David’s Top 10 Movies of 2017
On more levels than I care to recount, 2017 was a roaring hellfire of a year. A year so bad that a beloved celebrity suddenly dying feels like the preferable alternative to finding out that they are secretly sex fiends. A year so bad that the President of the United States probably colluding with Russia … Continue reading David’s Top 10 Movies of 2017
THE LAST JEDI and the Existential Horror of an Endless Star War
This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Last Jedi. Through nine films over the course of 40 years, every Star Wars movie has been introduced the same way. Blue letters over a black backdrop reading, “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….” Its twist on the 600-year-old fairy tale opener, “once … Continue reading THE LAST JEDI and the Existential Horror of an Endless Star War
At War With Itself: The Good and the Bad of SPIDER-MAN 3
From the beginning the deck was stacked against Spider-Man 3. Its predecessor was not only a perfect Spider-Man film, but is still to this day the most perfect superhero movie ever made. A film whose legacy looms large over the entire genre in a way that no other movie has since Richard Donner’s Superman. But … Continue reading At War With Itself: The Good and the Bad of SPIDER-MAN 3
TOY STORY 2: Pixar’s Improbable Miracle Movie
Between the years of 1995 and 2009, Pixar created an unprecedented and unmatched string of successes. Ten terrific films – critically lauded, commercially successful, instantly iconic. No other movie studio in history has a track record that can compare to Pixar’s golden age, and some filmmakers spend their entire careers hoping to curate a similarly … Continue reading TOY STORY 2: Pixar’s Improbable Miracle Movie
The Last Pirate Movies Ever Made: Revisiting PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
What do you do when you’re asked to make a sequel to the last pirate movie anyone would ever make? During production on the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie, there was a very real sense that the creative team behind it had conned a major studio into making a movie that should never have … Continue reading The Last Pirate Movies Ever Made: Revisiting PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN
