My Last Word on The Last Jedi
It’s strange that it’s taken me over two years to write about The Last Jedi.
Solo: The First Ordinary Star Wars Movie
Solo is the first Star Wars film – sorry, Star Wars Story – to feel ordinary.
An Alliance Divided: Rogue One’s “Star Wars Story”
Rogue One resists the mythic fairytale storytelling of its forebears while needing that same myth to justify its existence.
Your Biggest Fan: The Rise of Internet Fandom
The virulent reaction to the new Ghostbusters film demonstrates how the internet has empowered a force of good and evil: fandom.
Weird and Misguided Pop Culture Merchandise
Merchandising — it’s a time honored way to make even more money off of the popularity of past and present pop culture heroes. Sometimes, though, the merchandise just doesn’t seem to make any sense. Here are a few of the stranger pieces we’ve recently come across. Kiss Kaskets – We have a sneaking suspicion that…
The Slash Awakens: Why Finn and Poe Should Hook Up in the Next Star Wars Movie
More writing for Junkee! Here I make the uncontestable argument that Finn (John Boyega) and Poe Dameron (Oscar Isaac) should really hook up in the next Star Wars movie. Read the case for Finn/Poe here!
Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens: Resistance Writ Large and Small
“I know what I have to do, but I don’t know if I have the strength.” That quote is spoken by Kylo Ren (Adam Driver) in The Force Awakens, the long-awaited seventh instalment in the Star Wars franchise, but those words could easily have been put into the mouth of almost every prominent character in the…
Log Horizon – Season 1
There are very few nerdy activities I haven’t partaken in at some point. I’ve played Dungeons and Dragons. I’ve beaten the Queensland State Champion at Scrabble. I’ve assembled and painted two Warhammer 40,000 armies. I’ve written Neon Genesis Evangelion fan fiction. I’ve played pretty much every prominent collectible card game you can name – Pokémon,…
Canon Will Eat Itself: Alien and Other Modern Icons
District 9 director Neil Blomkamp kicked up a fuss yesterday when it was reported that his upcoming Alien sequel would break continuity from the last two films of the franchise, Alien3 and Alien: Resurrection. Blomkamp has since stepped back from that assertion – “I’m not trying to undo Alien 3 or Alien: Resurrection, I just…
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
You don’t have to be an aficionado of science fiction to recognise that the Wachowski’s latest production, Jupiter Ascending, draws inspiration from countless sci-fi forebears. Oh, sure, it’s an “original” property, but as with the Wachowskis’ output from The Matrix and beyond, it’s an unabashed pastiche. Jupiter Ascending’s setting is classic space opera, galaxies ruled…
