Star Wars: The Force Awakens has numerous scenes where characters scale and dart about amid the wreckage of Star Destroyers from the original trilogy. This serves as a good analogy for the film. A group of scavengers are frolicking about ...
Read More »Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Here’s where I become the contrary reviewer, disagreeing with almost every other review out there: I didn’t love Star Wars: The Force Awakens. It was ok. (Seriously, was every other reviewer given LSD-laced water before hand? I want some of ...
Read More »Star Wars: The Perfect Weapon by Delilah S. Dawson
With Star Wars: The Force Awakens hitting cinemas next week, the Star Wars universe releases are cranking up. Almost every day sees the release of a new toy, comic book, or new-canon novel. The most recent addition to the story ...
Read More »The new Star Wars Expanded Universe: Aftermath by Chuck Wendig
With all the hype around the new Star Wars films and Disney’s decision to depart from the original Expanded Universe, a new ‘official’ Star Wars novel being added to the cannon was always going to be controversial. Throw in a ...
Read More »Star Wars news: Andy Serkis is Supreme Leader Snoke
StarWars.com snuck in some previously unreleased information in an article around Annie Leibovitz’s recent photos for Vanity Fair. Way down in the bottom of the seventh paragraph, Andy Serkis’s character in the upcoming Star Wars: The Force Awakens was released: ...
Read More »Characterization in film: Star Wars vs. Mad Max: Fury Road
I recently saw the fourth installment of George Miller’s Mad Max franchise and my review rubbed some people the wrong way. While I did thoroughly enjoy the film, I came out of the cinema feeling a little bit short-changed when ...
Read More »Star Wars: Clone Wars and theories of the self
It is rare that something created as a kind of advertisement for its parent production actually outperforms the original in terms of critical response. Of course, it wasn’t terribly difficult to create something better than George Lucas’s wooden prequels. Star ...
Read More »Is Star Wars science fiction or fantasy?
The debate over whether Star Wars is more fantasy of science fiction has waged since 1977. Despite being a massive Star Wars fan (to the point where I saw The Phantom Menace 7 times at the cinema), I never really ...
Read More »Pet Peeve: Planets in science fiction with one major environmental feature
With the release of the Star Wars: The Force Awakens teaser trailer, we can see that – yet again – some of the action will take place on Tatooine. After I let out an exasperated sigh – I mean come ...
Read More »Creating a James Frey universe: An interactive novel and augmented reality
Authors and their publishers (and marketing people) are always coming up with new ways to encourage readers to buy their books. You go on any writing course and ‘promotion’ of you and your work will be included in some way, ...
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