Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
There I was, standing in line on 68th Street waiting to get into the New York press screening of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” (a film you may have heard something about) and cursing myself for being the sort of person who follows the rules. I could see other critics, either through ignorance, deviousness or…
Is Hermione Granger black? This is the question prompted by the casting of a black actor, Noma Dumezweni, as Hogwarts’ cleverest pupil in an upcoming theatre production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The answer is twofold. First, why the hell not? Second, what a stupid question! A better one to ask is whether…
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Now that The Force Awakens has awoken in theaters, various details are emerging about some of the directions NOT taken in the latest Star Wars film. Among them? One character that was supposed to perish after a short amount of screen time. Potential spoilers ahead. Who’s the character? Poe Dameron, according to an interview with…
Related: Harrison Ford dines out in Peckham and our film of the year – the Dailies podcast Daniel Craig did cameo as a stormtrooper in the new Star Wars movie, The Force Awakens – despite having denied doing so – according to Entertainment Weekly. Reporter Chris Lee, who broke the story of the James Bond…
Related: Star Wars: The Force Awakens review – ‘what a Christmas present’ A group of Star Wars fans are threatening to spoil The Force Awakens, the latest episode in the franchise, on social media unless studio Disney agrees to film the saga’s abandoned “expanded universe” stories. Lucasfilm executives announced in April 2014 that only the six…
page ‘Star Trek Beyond’ Will Effectively Ignore ‘Into Darkness’ INFOLINKS_ON While the action-packed first trailer for “Star Trek Beyond” was greeted with a mixed reaction from fans, it made clear the sequel won’t carry on the tone “Star Trek Into Darkness.” In fact, many franchise faithful will be pleased to know, it won’t even give…
Fans have complained that the recent Star Trek movies don’t do enough to explore the philosophical issues that were at the heart of classic Trek. But Justin Lin, the director of Star Trek Beyond, told us the new movie is all about debating Starfleet’s philosophies. io9 was among a handful of outlets that spoke to…
The trailer for Star Trek: Beyond crash landed this week amid the shouting of Beastie Boys and the moans of fanboys. No less than nerd icon and former Star Trek whipping boy Wil Wheaton found himself utterly baffled by this attempt to turn the long-running sci-fi series into a conventional Hollywood blockbuster. The trailer was…
As I watched “The Ridiculous Six,” my mind kept returning to an old episode from the popular Web series “Half in the Bag.” While reviewing the comedy “Jack and Jill,” critic Jay Bauman came up with a list of stale tropes that predictably appear in all of Adam Sandler’s movies. Nestled between entries like “general…