The Binding and Loosing of Mickey Mouse
The Walt Disney Company‘s long road to becoming one of the most powerful, celebrated, and litigious entertainment companies on Earth actually began, not with a mouse, but with a rabbit. Inspired by the personality of silent film luminary Douglas Fairbanks…
CUT TO: EXT. PICKET LINE—DAY
It’s been quite a couple of months for labor and for Hollywood (both independently and together). We don’t have any WGA or SAG-AFTRA members on staff here (at least not yet—if you are and you want something to do during…
Imago Droid
Are the droids of the Star Wars universe sentient? As the world’s most popular space fantasy franchise podraces toward its fiftieth birthday, the question is only getting muddier. The ineffable reality that there is something about humans which makes us…
Redemption in the Desert: Obi-Wan Kenobi season 1
Now THIS is Star Wars: Lightsabers, saving the princess, and redemption.
The Unavoidable Allure of Alternate Universes: Right Place, Right Time
Alternate universe stories give us a chance to see what the characters in the narratives we love are really made of. Strip away the trappings of their circumstances, put them in different hardships and opportunities, and what do they become?…
The Unavoidable Allure of Alternate Universes: Women in the Room
There’s a real seduction to multiverse stories. Seeing how all the same pieces rearrange themselves into a recognizable but different whole; seeing who these characters really are by removing the trappings; watching how a tiny choice made in a tiny…
Editorial: My Part in The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill
I don’t think I’ve heard this much buzz around a podcast since Serial came out in late 2014. Remember that show? For a few tantalizing months that year, we were all wrapped up in the story of a young man…