Tonight at 8 pm on OPB: Pioneers of Television: Science Fiction, an hour-long doc examining a couple of old-school sci-fi TV shows and their creators: Lost in Space, Star Trek, and The Twilight Zone. The promising sales pitch from the official site: The unexplored frontiers at the edges of our existence beckon and repel in […]
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Will Star Wars Fans Buy Anything If You Slap Star Wars Onto It?
How long must the endless litany of Star Wars-branded clothing and accessories rain down on our culture? Forever? Oh, okay, yeah. I guess that’s what I figured. So, yeah?? Eh? My trusty Star Wars-apparel litmus testing strategy (chatting a photo without comment to Erik Henriksen) resulted in the reaction: “Woah. Get them.” So… yeah? Still […]
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Happy Wookiee Life Day from Luke, Leia, Han, and… uh… Bea Arthur, I Guess.
First, a few highlights from Wikipedia’s page on “Life Day“: Generally, The Star Wars Holiday Special has received a large amount of criticism, both from Star Wars fans and the general public. David Hofstede, author of What Were They Thinking?: The 100 Dumbest Events in Television History, ranked the holiday special at number one, calling […]
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Hey Hollywood? Start Hiring Olly Moss.
One of the highlights of every month’s Empire is the “‘Ollywood” page, in which British designer Olly Moss cranks out a movie poster that is—inevitably—1,000 times cooler than the film’s actual poster. For example: Moss’ Sex and the City 2 poster via. Moss also designed this poster for Thor, which was commissioned by one of […]
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Remembering Irvin Kershner in The Making of The Empire Strikes Back.
As noted earlier this week, Irvin Kershner died on Sunday. Though he directed other films, Kershner’s legacy will always be 1980’s The Empire Strikes Back—the best of the Star Wars films, and, if you ask me, one of the best films period. Ever since it came out in October, I’ve been meaning to blog something […]