The glass-is-half-empty among us have been decrying the death of cinema for many years, triggered by the increasing focus on reinventing old IP in the face of increasing apathy towards original material. The glass-is-half-full side will respond that the origination of the material matters less than what is done with it and talented individuals have …
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The purpose of Star Wars Thrills is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of May 15, 2020 in one location. This week, we’ve got more The Mandalorian Season 2 cast surprises, the origin of Leia’s lightsaber design, a new Star Wars manga series, and much more! If you read this each week, you …
The purpose of Star Wars Thrills is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of May 8, 2020 in one location. This week, we’ve got news about new Mandalorian directors, Taika Waititi directing a new Star Wars film, a new Disney+ TV series, and much more! If you read this each week, you should …
Starting with Raiders of the Lost Ark, we’re taking a look back at Lucasfilm’s other giant franchise and the ways it shaped the modern blockbuster. Stay tuned for all the latest Indiana Jones 5 news here. RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK Make that Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, so re-christened in …
Spring, 1987. I’m a senior in high school. I’m sitting in the back seat of my friend Bill’s lime-green Chevy Nova. We’re in the parking lot of a Kroger’s, and we’re all a little drunk. Some of us more than others; we’ve been drinking beers, and right before we left the party at Heather’s house, …
The purpose of Star Wars Thrills is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of April 24, 2020 in one location. This week, we’ve got news about a new Star Wars TV series, The Mandalorian Season 3, new Empire Strikes Back 40th Anniversary merchandise, and much more! If you read this each week, you …
Somewhere, on the side of a mountain in the Appalachians, a family is gathering for its annual celebration. Somewhere, a family is falling apart. Somewhere, the classic reactions and responses to unconscionable betrayal are turned on their heads. Somewhere, people act out their lives in a fashion both impossible to identify with and unmistakably human. …
No film based on a true story is really about it’s subject, or at least not wholly about it. Sure, there’s a requirement to include the major moments of a life or event, keep the bones of the story in line with history. But the viewpoint of the filmmakers matters as much as the bones …
Miranda Bailey is a producer, director, actor and distributor known for films like The Squid and the Whale, The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Super, and Don’t Think Twice. Two years ago, she started TheCherryPicks.com. CherryPicks is a site where films are seen through the lens of women and non-binary reviewers and writers from all …
The purpose of Star Wars Thrills is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of April 17, 2020 in one location. This week, we’ve got updates about Disney+ Star Wars shows The Mandalorian Season 2 and the Cassian Andor series, George Lucas in quarantine, Star Wars video call backgrounds, and much more! If you read …
The purpose of Star Wars Thrills is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of April 10, 2020 in one location. This week, we’ve got new Baby Yoda toys, Ahsoka’s clone trooper merchandise, new Hallmark Christmas ornaments, Taika Waititi talks The Mandalorian, and much more! If you read this each week, you should be …
The purpose of Star Wars Thrills is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of April 3, 2020 in one location. This week, we’ve got the mystery of the Falcon’s triangular radar dish, a new writer for the Obi-Wan Kenobi series, The Mandalorian Season 2 rumors, a new 501st Lego set, and much more! …
For a long time complex subjects have had to be dealt with in allegory and obscurity, working around their subjects due to commercial and cultural sensitivities. There is a lot of artistic good which can come from that, requiring filmmakers to create subtle and understandable spaces for audiences to fill in rather than having everything …
The purpose of Star Wars Thrills is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of March 27, 2020 in one location. This week, we’ve got new The Mandalorian Season 2 cast updates, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker Easter Eggs, a new look at old concept art, a life-sized Baby Yoda toy, and much …
The purpose of Star Wars Thrills is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of March 20, 2020 in one location. This week, we’ve got the early Digital release of The Rise of Skywalker, Rosario Dawson playing Ahsoka Tano in The Mandolorian Season 2, new LEGO helmet sets, new Baby Yoda merchandise, the adventures of Ben Solo, …
The purpose of Star Wars Thrills is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of March 6, 2020 in one location. This week, we’ve got delays in Baby Yoda merchandise, first looks at The Rise of Skywalker novelization (pre-order here), an update on the Cassian Andor TV series, and much more! If you read …
There are particular buttons in a movie, that when I see them, automatically elicit an emotional response. It’s Pavlovian – if you make a movie about fathers and sons, for example, I am almost certain to react with tears. It’s just hardwired into my moviegoing DNA. Thus, Pixar Animation Studios’ Onward was almost guaranteed to make …
The purpose of Star Wars Thrills is to put all the Star Wars news from the week of February 28, 2020 in one location. This week, we’ve got the working title of the Obi-Wan Kenobi TV show, updates on the The High Republic publishing event, “Chewbacca Mode” on the Disney Falcon ride, Baby Yoda Build-A-Bear, and much more! …
Horror, more than any other genre, it seems, has its hand directly on the pulse of the here and now. It has to be – our fears are changing and evolving, even while those base instincts remain the same. Our monsters may come with different, more modern costumes, but they are still monsters. The Invisible …
It’s been a long time since there’s been a film iteration of H.G. Wells’ The Invisible Man with Paul Verhoeven last giving it a go 20 years ago with The Hollow Man, starring Kevin Bacon. Universal Pictures has been trying for a while to get something going for one of their Classic Movie Monsters, although …